I agree on the fresh look on coaching. I also love that this team seems to mesh really well.
I really like Ty Corbin
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I agree on the fresh look on coaching. I also love that this team seems to mesh really well.
He definitely did not play well yesterday, though I didn't think he was as horrid as many of Bell's performances this year, or as horrid as CJ's 4 whole minutes, and definitely not game costing horrid like Klay Thompson from the Warriors was.
I hope it doesn't cost him minutes, though he certainly deserved to be on the bench most of yesterday.
I hope it doesn't cost him minutes, though he certainly deserved to be on the bench most of yesterday.
Burks has been playing out of control most of the time he's played, but when he's not getting to the line at a Kevin Martin-esque rate and hitting his shots, good lord does he hurt what the team is doing. His rate of putting up shots HAS to be the highest on the team, or if not, it's vying for it with Chuckerson and Chuck J.
He needs to really refine where he gets his shots. He seems to take too many of his jumpers floating laterally or fading without his feet set and that is simply not his game (and probably never will be). He needs to just outwork his opponent off the ball on cuts, see if he can beat someone to the cup off the dribble, or take his jumpers on squared up and set spot-up jumpers.
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Burks has 36 shot attempts in 87 minutes. Without looking it up, I'd have to think that Jefferson is shooting at a greater rate.
Also, I'm not sure what any of this means but it definitely paints Burks in a very good light.
https://www.82games.com/1112/1112UTA.HTM
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InGameStrategy
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How refreshing that Corbin--in less than one entire season as head coach--is possibly embracing the concept of merit-based playing time that Ol' Jer underutilized for years.
Also, after a peak of 28 minutes vs. Milwaukee, Burks' minutes have come down x2. Meanwhile, Raja's minutes rose in lockstep, and RB got the PT last night when he was producing.
Bell's one-game surge in performance could've been coincidence (just needing a few games to get into rhythm), or it very well could've been that Bell saw that Corbin might be starting to operate a merit-based system, so Bell figured out how to improve.
As for Bell starting, we might as well get his minimum allocation of minutes over with on most nights
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footawn
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Hey, if the merit-based playing time thing gets guys motivated, I'm all for it. Even though Raja has been terrible for over a year, who could complain if he somehow found a way to contribute from time to time? If that developed, he could be the type of player that goes off for 1 game and surprises someone in the playoffs. I think at this point, that would be more than we could hope for out of him.
Otherwise, there's a nice Raja-shaped spot on the bench that needs to stay warm.
Otherwise, there's a nice Raja-shaped spot on the bench that needs to stay warm.
InGameStrategy
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freakazoid
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I wouldn't go this far. There's pros and cons. Players can also tighten up when they're constantly worried about one more mistake. I wouldn't say this is an ideal situation in all scenarios. I love the idea of CJ and Raja getting yanked and having their minutes cut when they're not playing well. Not so much when you're talking about some of our other players. I want our rooks and sophs to get regular minutes, even when they go through a rough stretch. I don't want those guys always looking over their shoulders.
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gomretat
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1) Starting lineup is doing fine
2) Howard and Burks have both had games where they played out of control
3) No problem with Ty but since our 4 wins have come against teams that are collectively 9W-22L I am going to reserve judgement. I would love to make the playoffs but still don't see us being in the mix.
2) Howard and Burks have both had games where they played out of control
3) No problem with Ty but since our 4 wins have come against teams that are collectively 9W-22L I am going to reserve judgement. I would love to make the playoffs but still don't see us being in the mix.
JAZZFAN_2814
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Perhaps by that standard, Ty Corbin is already ahead of Phil Jackson as well.
"Merit" -- i.e. the idea that a guy should be benched quickly whenever he has a poor game -- can create incoherence so far as team chemistry and any type of coherent identity; it's also the type of outlook that is often dependent on depth charts.
Sloan was flawed. But set rotations, with the right talent, also one made Utah perhaps the best executing team of all time.
Are the Jazz that deep, today? So deep that Corbin can make this work? Or so lacking that it doesn't matter?
And what of broader skillset analysis?
Raja Bell will turn into Wesley Matthews any day now. And lack of motivation from Sloan is why Raja Bell, you know, went from a borderline NBA player at all to a very respected vet after a single season in Utah.
A single game in NoCal is pretty hard to argue against, after all.
The real question is what this has to do with the board-wide demand from last week that the Jazz play their "youth".
Now the team is supposed to piecemeal every game rather than look to the, previously, all-important future?
There's Godel's Standard of Perfect Equations being their own limitations, yes. Then there's just bad math from emotionalism -- Shopenhauer's standard of the female mind? Love is hate is blindness.
Another week on Jazzfanz, in other words.