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idestroyedthetoilet said:
Exum is scoring a bit but he's inefficient and he doesn't make his teammates better. His play is a product of what others bring.

I like what I see compared to the past though. Now if he would just quit shooting three bricks.
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If anything, his play is a product that is attributed to himself.

He doesn't need help getting to the rim from any of the Jazz teammates.

I agree with almost all of the other things you mentioned, except that he does have some the ability to make his team better, especially our bigs, Favors in particular.
 
Blue Waffles said:
Role wise, I'd like to see Rubio Nash it and pass it a little bit more. I thought that's when the entire team turned the corner last year, but he hasn't really been doing it this year.
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Yep, Rubio's ability to get the offense going was possibly a bigger factor than getting Rudy back from injury. Utah was a bad team to start the year even with Rudy. We were either hot or cold offensively and had a hard time winning at all when cold. Rubio being able to Nash when our shooters were off was a big reason for the turnaround, and definitely something that seems underutilized this year. To be fair though, Rubio was pretty bad to start the season, and can't get us going if his mid range jumper isn't falling. Hopefully we'll start to see more Ricky like we saw against the Pelicans.
 
NAOS said:
LoPo.... offers a billion weird trades.... doesn't even know how cap space works.
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We aren't going to clear a bunch of cap space for this summer by letting Rubio and Favors walk just to trade for a bad contract to pick up a pick. You trade the expendable player near the deadline (Burks) AND have the chance to keep Rubio and Favors this summer if we want. Sure, if you get a bad contract you can't sign a big free agent in the summer, but when was the last time we signed a big free agent any summer? Boozer in 2004?

Closer to the deadline look at deals that expire in 2020; Burks for Mahinmi and the Wiz 1st for example. You have to know the cap to know that the Wiz are repeater tax offenders AND Mahinmi's contract gets in the way of matching any contract Oubre gets this summer.
 
Dali said:
If anything, his play is a product that is attributed to himself.

He doesn't need help getting to the rim from any of the Jazz teammates.

I agree with almost all of the other things you mentioned, except that he does have some the ability to make his team better, especially our bigs, Favors in particular.
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That's not exactly true or wrong either. His speed to the rim is insane.

The offense is creating a lot of wide open looks for the lesser shooters because so much attention has to be paid to DM, Joe, and Rudy's incredible rim running (Has there ever been a player better at it?). Plus, Utah is excellent at that extra swing pass on the arc. Those shots are often still quick catch and shoots, but they are less quick and more in rhythm than the previous quick catch and shoot 3.

We dont prefer Rubio, Exum, and Jae shooting the 3 but wide open they should shoot a winning % even if it doesn't blow us away individual % wise.
 
I think that article does gloss over how Fox absolutely slaughtered Ricky, to the point Dante had to play 26 minutes and finish the game.

Apart from that, he has been good defensively.
 
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