Jaymz
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Depends on the team we're playing. I'm sure glad we have this much versatility though.
I am fully on board with Exum starting at PG
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Depends on the team we're playing. I'm sure glad we have this much versatility though.
framer
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Our job this year is to teach Exum NBA ball. With his conditioning and experience issues, he will learn much more competing with NBA second string than starting every night. Start him out at 15 minutes a game until he can do that without gasping for air, then move him to 20. Especially look for matchups he can win and put him in those positions, even if it entails him playing the 2. Also, he is going to have to work on his left. Better he do that against less opportunistic defenders. The other major upside is that we have a much improved bench so playing him there isn't like consigning him to solitary confinement like it was for Burks last year.
jjscap
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Trey is a damn good shooter. This is a guy who shot 90% from the FT line on his rookie year ffs. The fact that he had 38% FG last year won't make him a bad shooter. In fact 38% is above average for rookie guards in the NBA. Don't also forget Trey is not a guy who will the dribble the time off at the end of quarters to protect his FG%, he will just shoot it! Hence the little drop in FG%.
seattlejazzfan
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38% is awful. 33% threes isn't good. Factor in that he can't get to the FT line if his life depended on it and we have a problem.
But I'm interested in this 38% FGs being above average for rookie guards in the NBA. Link?
It would be one thing if his shooting percentages got better as the year went on but he was consistently a bad shooter.
https://espn.go.com/nba/player/splits/_/id/2579260/trey-burke
jumpin bean
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Dante says he is learning at 100 milesperhour,and his passing would really make Favors and Kanter happy and help the team score easier buckets.
seattlejazzfan
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Yep.
Summer league 2013 - bad, regular season 13-14 - bad (and didn't get better as you mention), summer league 2014 - bad. It seems there is a pattern here whether he's playing against legit NBA players or scrubs.
It seemed like he was a better shooter when he had the hand thing at the beginning of the year.
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I would hope that his conditioning will be good before the regular season even begins.
He will play for his national team, have training camp with the jazz and then pre-season bball.
If his conditioning is still horrible then we have a huge problem.
By that point he will have played more bball than alec burks has this summer (by alot) so if burks conditioning is ready to go by game one then exum should be as well
orangello
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So much Burke hate and it's not even coming from me.
seattlejazzfan
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You know, I actually like Burke, but I just don't see him as a long term starter.
orangello
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Thus might surprise everyone but I like what Burke showed last year. His clutch shooting was insane. What I didn't like was the other 28+ minutes he was in the floor and he was a liability.
I would have preferred to see the Jazz shoot for potential last draft rather go with a safe pick aka Burke.
Hind sight is 20/20 but the three players I really liked last year (that likely would have been available at their picks) were Schroder, Giannis and Gobert.
Giannis is going to be a force in this league soon if it isn't this year. Dennis is showing a lot of promise during SL and we all know what Gobert is doing. Could you imagine if the Jazz had Giannis, Rudy and Exum on the same team? Talk about long and fun to watch.
