FalseFlagg K
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steaming stinking pile of festering garden mulch. But yeah lets get someone released for nothing by two crap teams who openly verbalises he doesn't want to play defense.
I'd rather stay asleep thnx
Jabari Parker
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steaming stinking pile of festering garden mulch. But yeah lets get someone released for nothing by two crap teams who openly verbalises he doesn't want to play defense.
I'd rather stay asleep thnx
Chicago. They are using us just like they used us last year to prop up trade talks with other teams for Mirotic.
Hotdog
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Fine. You can sleep. I will set the alarm for Jabari:25 though. You will just be late to the party, and maybe you wont even be let in at that point.
Hitman
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Exum and Grayson are only 23 too, but the experts on this board say they're never going to get better. Why should Parker be any different?
jom2003
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every word that people use to describe Parker could've been used on Rose one year ago, and look at how he is doing now.
worst case scenario we don't bring him back next year. we can even wait for the bulls to buy him out so there'd be no risk in bringing him in. He might be lazy like what everyone said, but it literally takes no effort to get minutes ahead of Niang and Thabo anyways so it all works out.
worst case scenario we don't bring him back next year. we can even wait for the bulls to buy him out so there'd be no risk in bringing him in. He might be lazy like what everyone said, but it literally takes no effort to get minutes ahead of Niang and Thabo anyways so it all works out.
Hitman
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That's not even what they wrote. Meaning you can't read.
Yeah but can they play the stretch 4, our position of need?
Jazz4ever
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Trust me, it could get much worse. Look at Phoenix, that is a team that plays no defense and has no identity. Do not think for one minute there is "nothing to lose".
You cannot tank for a guaranteed top 3 pick anymore. If the Jazz screw up through bone headed trades they could find themselves in NBA hell.
Miggs
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Rose is a former MVP. Parker is a former nobody.
FalseFlagg K
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2 ACLs prevented him from ever becoming a nobody
Hitman
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You've only just woke up? That explains it. You must have slept through the Boozer era and the Big Al era and the mercifully brief Kanter era. No amount of Jazz culture could make them play defence. Well, Boozer half-tried in his contract year, although he was going to get paid, regardless, and Al would make one defensive play per game, but that was it. We've moved on from having that type of player.
Hotdog
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I know all about that era. I despised it more than anyone on this board. I can prove it through previous posts of Big Al and Boozer hate. Long before anyone else noticed the problem.
The difference is that we have Rudy Gobert Gobert to offset Jabari's bad defense. Rudy just so happens to be the longest player ever and defensive player of the year. It can work.
Ask yourself this, why arent we as good defensively as we were last year? We still have Rudy, right? The problem is a bad offense. When you have a horrendous offense it makes defense extremely difficult for even the best defenders. Rudy is out there trying to save our asses on the offensive going for offensive boards because we cant make shots. Shots are clanking off the rim and producing more easy baskets for other teams. If we made more shots 2's or 3's, we would have more time for the defense to set up. It also energizes the team when you make shots. One it makes you more excited, two it takes less work because you dont have to attempt a basket multiple times.
This stuff is just common sense, but for some reason no one notices it.
We need balance. You cant run a team out there with no offense and all defense. Its not going to work. The way the NBA is set up you cant straight dominate teams defensively. They will get baskets. You need offense too, and Jabari is 10x better offensively than Boozer, Al, or Kanter.