Name a better wing rotation than Hayward Hood Burks

[Coach Ellis]

i like our guys.

thompson / barnes / iggy / draymond is a pretty damn good set of wings though

Don't think I'd consider Green a wing. He mostly plays bigger than his size would indicate - pretty much 4/5 exclusively.

Thompson, Barnes and Iggy are a very good trio, but imagine Hayward, Hood and Burks with Curry - that's dirty. Jazz have a clear advantage at the wing.

 

[jope]

Draymond isn't a wing. Dude's a 4 (who also plays 5 in their small ball lineups).

"So are you a small forward or a power forward?" and I was like, "I'm a basketball player." Period. Don't tell me I'm a small forward because you are taking away what I can do as a power forward. Don't consider me a power forward because you are taking away what I can do as a small forward. I'm just a basketball player and that's how I've always looked at it.

On pretty much any other team he would be a stocky 3 that splits time at the 4. Don't the unique-ness of the Warriors fool you into thinking he's strictly a 4. he can (and does) play the 3 depending on situations.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Because they like watching Chris Johnson, Joe Ingles and Li'l Sap?

Chemistry issues. You need wings who are fine with playing max 20mpg. Burks would need to be sent out.

 

[GVC]

...but imagine Hayward, Hood and Burks with Curry - that's dirty. Jazz have a clear advantage at the wing.

Even better, imagine Hayward, Hood, and a good third wing with Curry.

 

[GVC]

Chemistry issues. You need wings who are fine with playing max 20mpg. Burks would need to be sent out.

So ridiculously overstated on this site. Just like the assertion you can't sign players because 2 to 3 years down the road, other players need to be re-signed. Apparently, mediocrity loves mediocrity.

 

[fishonjazz]

Because they like watching Chris Johnson, Joe Ingles and Li'l Sap?

Nope because they like watching hood.
If we went out paid big money for one of those free agent wings then there is a chance that the new free agent wing would have started from day one. Burks and hood would have split back up minutes. Burks goes down and hood gets chris Johnson/Joe ingles minutes. Hood isn't able to fully showcase what he can do.
Or the newly acquired highly paid free agent gets cj/ingles minutes and isn't happy with his role.
Then when Burks is healthy again things get more complicated and uglier and chemistry suffers.

Or everything just works out perfectly and it's all good.

Im can't read the future so I can't be sure what would have happened had we acquired an expensive wing last summer.

Fortunately I don't need to be able to see the future to see what is happening right now. Which is that our wings are amazing and will only get better when Burks comes back in a few weeks and we are winning games like we have not seen in years.

The cake baking plan at the wing position is working out beautifully which is why a thread asking if there is a better wing rotation anywhere else in the league even exists.

 

[jope]

Don't think I'd consider Green a wing. He mostly plays bigger than his size would indicate - pretty much 4/5 exclusively.

Thompson, Barnes and Iggy are a very good trio, but imagine Hayward, Hood and Burks with Curry - that's dirty. Jazz have a clear advantage at the wing.

on any other team than the Warriors, i honestly think he's more of a 4/3, not a 4/5.

 

[jope]

Even better, imagine Hayward, Hood, and a good third wing with Curry.

agreed. I like alec but i dont think he would fit with the curry model like hay and hood would

 

[Coach Ellis]

Chemistry issues. You need wings who are fine with playing max 20mpg. Burks would need to be sent out.

I'm a guy who believes in the young talent on this team AND I still wanted Carroll back (until the price tag became too prohibitive.)

Still think they could have found some space for Casspi and Lin on the bench. Not sure those two guys would have been a detriment to chemistry and would have certainly improved the talent at the end of the roster.

 

[fishonjazz]

Even better, imagine Hayward, Hood, and a good third wing with Curry.

You don't think Burks is a good third wing?

He is putting up as good as it better numbers than wes Matthews, Danny green, and demarre carroll for less money iirc. (And he is younger than all those guys)

 

[jope]

Don't think I'd consider Green a wing. He mostly plays bigger than his size would indicate - pretty much 4/5 exclusively.

Thompson, Barnes and Iggy are a very good trio, but imagine Hayward, Hood and Burks with Curry - that's dirty. Jazz have a clear advantage at the wing.

but either way that's why i put Green at the end of the list, and honestly i'd put our guys above theirs if Green isn't included in that mix, no doubt.

 

[GVC]

Nope because they like watching hood.
If we went out paid big money for one of those free agent wings then there is a chance that the new free agent wing would have started from day one. Burks and hood would have split back up minutes. Burks goes down and hood gets chris Johnson/Joe ingles minutes. Hood isn't able to fully showcase what he can do.
Or the newly acquired highly paid free agent gets cj/ingles minutes and isn't happy with his role.
Then when Burks is healthy again things get more complicated and uglier and chemistry suffers.

Or everything just works out perfectly and it's all good.

Im can't read the future so I can't be sure what would have happened had we acquired an expensive wing last summer.

Fortunately I don't need to be able to see the future to Dr what is happening right now. Which is that our wings are amazing and will only get better when Burks comes back in a few weeks and we are winning games like we have not seen in years.

The cake baking plan at the wrong position is working out beautifully which is why a thread asking if there is a better wing rotation anywhere else in the league even exists.

1. Even Quin has talked about going small with Gordo at the 4. Booker, Lyles, Ingles, Withey, Johnson, Millsap, Pleiss and O'Brien have played a combined 3983 minutes this season -- that's more than 78 minutes per game on average. Plenty of minutes to add a (big) wing.

2. Burks is a mirage.