Nick Sciria did a breakdown of why he loves the Jazz's addition of George Hill on Twitter

[candrew]

Jazz lost a lot of close games last season for a lot of reasons - lack of leadership was definitely one of them. Utah has a veteran presence that you can plug into either guard spot to close out games - especially when opposing teams go small. That alone makes this trade much more valuable than any pick up at the 12 spot.

 

[fishonjazz]

There was one odd comment. He said Hill adds "much needed length to the perimeter". If you ignore Exum and Hood then I guess we need more length. But most teams came away from Jazz games talking about our length.

I would rephrase this as Hill adds even more length to the Jazz perimeter to put alongside returning long armed lumox Dantexum... or something like that.

But seriously folks... With Exum and Hill we are longer than 20 time all star pronstar Frank Drillsalot aka "the Forever Forearm"

Ya, the jazz have great length already. Hill just adds to that.
Burks has good length (for his position), Exum has tremendous length (for his position), hayward has good length for his position, favors has tremendous length for his position, Gobert has off the chart length, I'm not sure about hood cause I seem to remember he has short arms but he is at least a good height for his position.

I swear, if this team can stay relatively healthy........

 

[fishonjazz]

Just for the record, last year's spot up 3 percentage for the shooters on the Jazz:

Hill 44.9%
Ingles 42%
Burke 41.2%
Burks 40.9%
Neto 40%
Lyles 40%
Hood 38.4%
Hayward 36.8%
Mack 34.9%
Johnson 27.3%

Burks making me proud. Great spot up shooter/floor spacer and an elite slasher and good at getting to the line.

I still believe.

#TheReturn
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[fishonjazz]

Great article. I only read the first bit and didn't watch any vids cause I don't have time right now.
Hopefully I will be able to sink my teeth into it later.

 

[seattlejazzfan]

A stat I wasn't aware of- the Jazz were 10-21 this past season when Rudy played 0-20 minutes. Just wow. 30-21 when he played 20+. We talk about how the Jazz struggled this year due to injuries, but apologies to Exum, Burks, etc, it was really only one injury that mattered.

 

[fishonjazz]

A stat I wasn't aware of- the Jazz were 10-21 this past season when Rudy played 0-20 minutes. Just wow. 30-21 when he played 20+. We talk about how the Jazz struggled this year due to injuries, but apologies to Exum, Burks, etc, it was really only one injury that mattered.

Honestly I kind of thought this to be the case without even knowing these stats.

Rudy is so crucial.

 

[framer]

Honestly I kind of thought this to be the case without even knowing these stats.

Rudy is so crucial.

Go back and watch the Exum rookie highlights and see how Exum plays with Rudy on offense. When Exum gets Rudy the ball it is up high and in motion where Rudy can do something with it, unlike the passes to the waist he generally gets from his other teammates. Next year is gonna rock so hard!

 

[seattlejazzfan]

Go back and watch the Exum rookie highlights and see how Exum plays with Rudy on offense. When Exum gets Rudy the ball it is up high and in motion where Rudy can do something with it, unlike the passes to the waist he generally gets from his other teammates. Next year is gonna rock so hard!

Even at that, Rudy with no Exum was 30-21 when he played enough minutes to make an impact. That's a 48-34 (even with all the other injuries) pace. Crazy.

 

[NUMBERICA]

A stat I wasn't aware of- the Jazz were 10-21 this past season when Rudy played 0-20 minutes. Just wow. 30-21 when he played 20+. We talk about how the Jazz struggled this year due to injuries, but apologies to Exum, Burks, etc, it was really only one injury that mattered.

And in a year that he was obviously fatigued and fighting nagging injuries the entire year.

But Green is right, Gobert is kind of dog ****.

 

[silesian]

There was one odd comment. He said Hill adds "much needed length to the perimeter". If you ignore Exum and Hood then I guess we need more length. But most teams came away from Jazz games talking about our length.

Hill's 6-9 wingspan is replacing: Neto 6-2, Trey Burke 6-5, Shelvin Mack 6-7.5

 

[framer]

Burks making me proud. Great spot up shooter/floor spacer and an elite slasher and good at getting to the line.

I still believe.

#TheReturn
#10

Burks was actually the best on the team with the pull up 3 at 39.4% His 3 point shooting is heavily underrated. His biggest issue is pull up jumpers inside the arc. He is complete *** with his midrange. That is OK, we have Hood and Lyles (Lyles's off the dribble midrange is spectacular) to do that. All Burks needs to do is take the 3 if given room, or drive to the hole hard if they overplay him.

 

[Rgiss]

Burks was actually the best on the team with the pull up 3 at 39.4% His 3 point shooting is heavily underrated. His biggest issue is pull up jumpers inside the arc. He is complete *** with his midrange. That is OK, we have Hood and Lyles (Lyles's off the dribble midrange is spectacular) to do that. All Burks needs to do is take the 3 if given room, or drive to the hole hard if they overplay him.

And then kick to the w/s corner if they crash on him around the basket


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