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Tweets from Camp, Thursday Dec 15

bordelais7 said:
The fan/media obsession with players being the first one to show up has me fascinated. I was the first one to work this morning. My wife had to drop me off early as my car is in the shop, and she had an appointment to get to. I took a two-hour lunch, and I'm planning on sneaking out when I think it's safe to do so. Oh, and I'm terrible at my job. But no one will question my dedication and leadership because, dammit, I was here at 7:45 getting an early start on reading Facebook.
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Oh, I know you.
I saw your network login, but it was closer to 7:55, and yes I saw that you immediately went to the internet and facebook
It's all in the weekly report I send to your boss.

Oh, by the way, it's all about appearances and not what you actually do or add to the company.
 
JazzSpazz said:
Oh, I know you.
I saw your network login, but it was closer to 7:55, and yes I saw that you immediately went to the internet and facebook
It's all in the weekly report I send to your boss.

Oh, by the way, it's all about appearances and not what you actually do or add to the company.
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Exactly. You do not have to be busy, you just have to appear to be busy.
 
JazzSpazz said:
Oh, and who you know, or suck up to.
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Reminds me of a very sage addage:

"Be careful of the toes you step on today, for they may be connected to the *** you have to kiss tomorrow."
 
LogGrad98 said:
Reminds me of a very sage addage:

"Be careful of the toes you step on today, for they may be connected to the *** you have to kiss tomorrow."
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I really like your John Maynard Keynes quote. Amazing how many people think it's wrong to ever change their position on a topic .. even as facts change.
 
Based on these tweets, I'd bet the over in every Jazz game, especially early in the year. We're young, deep, athletic and have many different guys who could pour in 18+ a night but early on, based on these tweets, I could see our defense struggling.
 
Remember early last year when we were coming back on teams on a nightly basis. Our bench was really good, our bench destroyed other teams benches. This years bench could win a lot of games for us this year.
 
The Fresh Prince said:
Devin Harris proves His haters wrong this year. Especially with Josh on the team now. I can expect this year to be a fun one.
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If Josh takes away minutes from our promising young guys needlessly, then it won't be fun. A one year rental that has a multi-year effect? Bad.
 
I think there are going to be enough minutes for everyone. If Josh is coming off an injury, he may want to take a few games off anyway.
 
I think Josh will provide alot of learning to those young guys, veteran tricks and all so I'm not too concerned (yet) about the minutes he might take. I am more troubled/concerned about hearing from Jazz camp that the Jazz don't have a legitimate 3 without howard. What the heck is Hayward? A SG? Then why draft Alec Burks? And now Kanter is shrinking into a pf?

5 picks in 2 years get the Jazz 2 shooting gaurds and 3 powerforwards?
 
mellow said:
I think Josh will provide alot of learning to those young guys, veteran tricks and all so I'm not too concerned (yet) about the minutes he might take. I am more troubled/concerned about hearing from Jazz camp that the Jazz don't have a legitimate 3 without howard. What the heck is Hayward? A SG? Then why draft Alec Burks? And now Kanter is shrinking into a pf?

5 picks in 2 years get the Jazz 2 shooting gaurds and 3 powerforwards?
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You dont think Favors can play center? How many 7 foot + dominant centers are in the league? Not many. Favors and Kanter will be fine as the future 4/5 guys. If we just need a 7 footer to play defense against the few other big dominant guys there is always Fes. :)
 
bordelais7 said:
The fan/media obsession with players being the first one to show up has me fascinated. I was the first one to work this morning. My wife had to drop me off early as my car is in the shop, and she had an appointment to get to. I took a two-hour lunch, and I'm planning on sneaking out when I think it's safe to do so. Oh, and I'm terrible at my job. But no one will question my dedication and leadership because, dammit, I was here at 7:45 getting an early start on reading Facebook.
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I love it. Soooo true. You also hear frequently praises heaped on those who are the last to leave as well.

Only one person can be the first one to arrive and only once can be the last to leave. Does that mean that everyone else is necessarily less dedicated? Of course not. This is just another one of the largely meaningless sports cliches that are tossed around as if they somehow had profound and universal meaning.

Note: When I graduate from school, my first job was as a commercial loan officer at a bank. We had a couple of people in our office who worked until late at night. What did it mean? Nothing, other than their social life was built around hanging around late at work and then going to a bar to drink with their other buddies who lacked a family life.
 
PKM said:
I really like your John Maynard Keynes quote. Amazing how many people think it's wrong to ever change their position on a topic .. even as facts change.
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Well, technically, the facts don't change, but rather our understanding of the facts.

The capacity for critical self-reflection is not a human character trait that one finds in abundance.
 
billyshelby said:
Utilizing the guards in more pick and roll sounds wonderful. It also affirms my faith in Ty. We have a very unusual number of wings who can drive and pass. Taking advantage of that is crucial. I'm really looking forward to seeing out offense.
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What a novel idea...adapting the offense to fit the strengths of the players. Definitely looking like the Jazz will be a Detroit-type team: no superstars, but five guys on the floor who can hurt you at any time. It's going to be a fun team to watch.
 
NCJazz said:
You dont think Favors can play center? How many 7 foot + dominant centers are in the league? Not many. Favors and Kanter will be fine as the future 4/5 guys. If we just need a 7 footer to play defense against the few other big dominant guys there is always Fes. :)
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The Jazz blew their chances to develop Fes (by providing minutes which, as has been stated in other threads, is essential for player development). Unfortunately, Fes didn't provide the off-court work ethic that is secondary in importance to on-court minutes (and performance), and Sloan was mismanaged Fes (and others) in favor--ironically--of higher-scoring players but with subpar defense.

Now, with a stable of high-upside bigs, it is essential for Corbin to provide minutes to Kanter (i.e., at least 10 MPG or so on a regular basis, ideally without losing games as a result) and to spread the minutes around to all the players (who aren't hurting the team) so that the bigs will be fresh for games scrunched together. this should be an easy task.

What will be suboptimal is giving 30 to 35+ MPG constantly to two or three bigs who do not necessarily produce at a superior level as the others and/or who do so at the sacrifice of the development of the remaining ones. All of them need minutes regularly, and it should be Okur who should be restricted to less than 10 or 15 MPG (unless he someone learned how to be a faster runner and better defender).
 
mellow said:
I think Josh will provide alot of learning to those young guys, veteran tricks and all so I'm not too concerned (yet) about the minutes he might take. I am more troubled/concerned about hearing from Jazz camp that the Jazz don't have a legitimate 3 without howard. What the heck is Hayward? A SG? Then why draft Alec Burks? And now Kanter is shrinking into a pf?

5 picks in 2 years get the Jazz 2 shooting gaurds and 3 powerforwards?
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If there was a SF that looked better than Burks the Jazz would have taken him at 12. You had Marcus Morris, Chris Singleton, and Kawhi Leonard. None of them have close to the talent or potential Burks has.
 
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