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Ron Mexico said:
Our team as a whole gets a lot of open 3s. We lead the league in that as usual.
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I understand that. I guess I was referring to the 6 feet thing. That's a lot of air space to get a good shot off. And over 3 times a game when he is playing 30 minutes per game? Crazy.
 
There is good and bad with the injuries... I think we get a decent sample of DM at pg with these guys out. We get to see more Grayson and he should play with little fear of getting benched... cuz they ain't no one else over there.

The bad is there is no doubt the team is worse without Exum/Ricky/Neto. Hopefully it doesn't cost us a game or two. Tonight is big.
 
As a spot up shooter I'm actually totally cool with Ricky. Off the dribble I think his percentages are better this year, but its tough to watch him use the pick two or three times and have the defender drop under... only to settle for a less than ideal shot. It doesn't get the blender started.

I've thought for a long time that either Favs or Ricky should not start because of spacing. Ricky is good from the corners... I do wonder if Favs was coming off the bench if Ricky could have more off ball value hanging in the corner (when he is running the action). Ricky is tough to figure out for me... I don't think the fit is ideal... but if its workable maybe its the best solution.
 
LoPo said:
I understand that. I guess I was referring to the 6 feet thing. That's a lot of air space to get a good shot off. And over 3 times a game when he is playing 30 minutes per game? Crazy.
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It is pretty crazy. Rubio definitely hurts our spacing on offense. The Jazz as a team attempt 30 of their 38 3s per game either open or wide open. We shoot our wide open ones okay (9th best in NBA) as a team but our open shots (closest defender 4-6 feet) at only 31%. Which is bottom 4 in the league.
 
Jazzta said:
A blessing in disguise. Defenses were getting burnt by himself game after game the 2nd half of last season due to scouting him as a non-threat.
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Yes, when he's hitting, and when he is, we usually win. But he is so inconsistent. You don't know one game from the next. Donovan is inconsistent too but he draws a lot of attention from the defense which allows other guys to score. I like Ricky as a distributor, not a shooter. He needs to shoot less.
 
Jazzta said:
A blessing in disguise. Defenses were getting burnt by himself game after game the 2nd half of last season due to scouting him as a non-threat.
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No, I would much rather him be guarded so he can create for others. I wouldnt really call 15 ppg on 43% shooting burning teams. We would have been even better if he was being guarded and getting open shots for others.
 
Eenie-Meenie said:
Yes, when he's hitting, and when he is, we usually win. But he is so inconsistent. You don't know one game from the next. Donovan is inconsistent too but he draws a lot of attention from the defense which allows other guys to score. I like Ricky as a distributor, not a shooter. He needs to shoot less.
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That proves my point right there. Again, he WAS hitting by the end of last season, when games mattered the most.
About "we usually win", that just shows the impact he has in the game's outcome. If he's open he will shoot the ball, as I'm sure that he's being instructed by the coaching staff.
 
Ron Mexico said:
No, I would much rather him be guarded so he can create for others. I wouldnt really call 15 ppg on 43% shooting burning teams. We would have been even better if he was being guarded and getting open shots for others.
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That's the beauty of it, he's an enigma to the opposing coach as to how to guard him.
 
I remember a game against the Spurs last season where Pop’s defensive gameplan was clearly to leave Rubio wide open during every possession. Go ask him how that worked out, I even remember him approaching Ricky at the end of the game to give him kudos, probably thinking “you rascal, where did all that come from?”
 
Jazzta said:
About "we usually win", that just shows the impact he has in the game's outcome.
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I'm not so sure this is a fact. I would love for somebody to break it down better, but just looking through his performances this year, a good Rubio performance doesn't always lead to a win.

http://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/4011/ricky-rubio

If you just look at the games he shoots over .500 from the field, seems like we are about .500.
 
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