How come Shelvin Mack or Jeff Withey can't get hurt?

[fishonjazz]

Diaw has been hurt...Not sure why Withey was included, as he has been decent. Diaw and Mack are the ones Quin has an issue with overuse.

OK so we're 2-4 with Exum starting (playing the most minutes) and 1-1 with Mack starting (playing the most minutes) and 4-3 with Hill starting and Mack being primary back-up point. The guy comes in from nowhere last season for a second rounder and turns the season around for us barely missing the playoffs https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2016/3/30/11323824/shelvin-mack-utah-jazz-point-guard. So how in the ell does he get lumped in with Withey who's never done anything significant for the Jazz as a "bum"? I look at Mack's stats and he has some good games and some bad like anybody else on the team. Against the Rockets he had the highest plus minus on the squad at +12. We don't win some big games (like in SA) without his performance. If Exum, Lyles, Hood and Hayward were judged by the same rubric as Mack is on this board they'd all be bums.

I think you guys might be over-analyzing this. When i read the OP i thought he was basically saying "why cant withey, mack, diaw, jingles, etc get hurt instead of hayward, favors, burks, hill, etc?"

 

[The Fresh Prince]

Erick Green would've been a better choice than Shelvin "Old Man" Mack. He has the Mack of Cappysmurfs grandfather.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

Did he help us win last season? In the 28 games he played with us we were 13-15. Without Mack we were 27-27. They had Derrick Favors back and Rudy Gobert back during that time. The other times we had those two healthy without Mack we won a lot more games 16-27. There are other factors such as Hayward and Favors being gimpy but I dont think Mack helped us that much.

Stretch run, bigger games better teams, by most all accounts he was an upgrade to either Neto or Burke (see SBNation link above).

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

I think you guys might be over-analyzing this. When i read the OP i thought he was basically saying "why cant withey, mack, diaw, jingles, etc get hurt instead of hayward, favors, burks, hill, etc?"

You're right, this is mostly just a spoof thread and I know that, but there's the bum reference. My position is that no other player has done so much for so little and still can't escape the scapegoat tag this guy has.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Stretch run, bigger games better teams, by most all accounts he was an upgrade to either Neto or Burke (see SBNation link above).

I did. I think he was a downgrade from Neto. A lot of those games we lost during that stretch were against teams that were not positioning for anything that the year before we easily won with Exum at PG. I am not convinced he helped us win.

 

[fishonjazz]

You're right, this is mostly just a spoof thread and I know that, but there's the bum reference. My position is that no other player has done so much for so little and still can't escape the scapegoat tag this guy has.

Fair point.