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Something that people are maybe missing on thus far this season - Hayward's offball movement and cuts. It's sublime right now! He's getting this backdoor cut alley-oop on a whim right now... overall the breaks on his cuts and changes of direction are so sharp and precise. I don't think I've ever seen him cut like that before.
 
Ellipse said:
I don't have a problem with a coach trying to make a point by setting a player's *** on the bench when he screws up. But he needs to enforce it uniformly for all players in every game. You can't let a Diaw go through the motions, while punishing Gobert or Exum for doing the same.
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It's probably easier for Quin to bench the youngsters. He gives the benefit of the doubt to a veteran like Diaw. A veteran probably responds more poorly to a benching than a 2nd year player, which Dante basically is.
 
The last time Exum played he was part of a lineup that blew a huge lead against the Nuggets. I think it's more of just a motivation thing to bench him for a game or two.
 
Engorged On Unborn Gore said:
Snyder hasn't just given Exum playing time. He has started him multiple times. Snyder has also glowed about players who played well. What difference are you talking about?

Exum has simply performed poorly. He'll get more opportunities.
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Exum has been better off the bench than Mack... based on the numbers. The difference is when you scream t a guy during the game and glow about him later. Ride him hard and judge him in the media and then reward a guy who has just as many puzzling mistakes... it's not a winning formula and certainly not what Pop did.

Go look at the numbers and tell me who is playing worse... they've both been bad at times but Dante is shooting better than Mack and needs playing time more than anyone on our roster. If it's a two game timeout then fine... if it becomes a trend it's short sighted and flat out dumb.
 
MVP said:
Hill is just such a perfect match for the Jazz. Don't get why some folks worry about Exum, as long as we have Hill and Gobert on the Jazz we will be making playoffs every freaking year.
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It's further proof for us all to believe in DL as he keeps bringing us talent. Now we're at a point where he can upgrade players as roster spots are sparse.

With Hill on the floor this is a different team and it's as if we can't lose.

As long as there aren't any bad surprises I see us going 8-2 in the next ten games - the stretch starting with the Wolves and finishing with the Mavs.
 
stitches said:
Something that people are maybe missing on thus far this season - Hayward's offball movement and cuts. It's sublime right now! He's getting this backdoor cut alley-oop on a whim right now... overall the breaks on his cuts and changes of direction are so sharp and precise. I don't think I've ever seen him cut like that before.
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It requires guys to pull attention away from him too. When hood and hill share the floor they can't load up on the guy.

It's great seeing him get some easy ones for a change.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
The last time Exum played he was part of a lineup that blew a huge lead against the Nuggets. I think it's more of just a motivation thing to bench him for a game or two.
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I'm fine with this if it also applies when Mack comes in and kills us... need consistency there.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
It requires guys to pull attention away from him too. When hood and hill share the floor they can't load up on the guy.

It's great seeing him get some easy ones for a change.
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The backdoor alleyoop is actually a byproduct of the prolific handoffs we are running. Teams know that we are the team that runs most handoffs in the league and they try to deny it... Hayward steps toward the handoff, gets overplayed and he just cuts backdoor for wide open dunks. This relies on the floor being spaced to the 2 corners so the help defender doesn't have time to react. Hood, Hill and Lyles can all draw enough attention so you cannot leave them open in the corner...
 
Oh, and for all teh Schroeder fan boys, he really isnt that good. It was obvious part of the gameplan was going under on every screen he was in. He burnt us a couple of times early, but he was awful after the 1st quarter.
 
As an Exum supporter, I'm not worried.

Mack will screw up soon enough (probably on Monday) and Exum had better be ready to expose Tyus Jones.

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Saint Cy of JFC said:
Oh, and for all teh Schroeder fan boys, he really isnt that good. It was obvious part of the gameplan was going under on every screen he was in. He burnt us a couple of times early, but he was awful after the 1st quarter.
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The Jazz ability to recover defensively at the rim presents a bad matchup for him.. He'll be fine. He was far from the main reason why they only scored 68.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I'm fine with this if it also applies when Mack comes in and kills us... need consistency there.
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Lyles has played a bunch of garbage defense consistently and not had his time curtailed. I think it has to be a specific message to Exum to play with a lot more fire and intensity.
The Denver game I'm sure we were still up 11-12 points when he left the game, he wasn't doing anything but he wasn't Diaw type bad
 
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GVC said:
The Jazz are being outscored by 10 points per 48 minutes with Dante on the court. They're outscoring their opponents by 4 points per 48 with Shelvin on the court.
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Yeah, I think Exum has been the better player individually, but something goes on when Exum is on the court. No one guards him off the ball and it really screws up the offense. He has been able to exploit the defenses every now and then, but not often enough.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Yeah, I think Exum has been the better player individually, but something goes on when Exum is on the court. No one guards him off the ball and it really screws up the offense. He has been able to exploit the defenses every now and then, but not often enough.
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He's also being overrated as a defender. He does a good job recovering when he's beat, but he's rarely in a good defensive stance, and gets crossed fairly easily. Sure, he frequently recovers, but when he loses his man initially, the rest of the defense breaks a bit trying to cover for him.
 
GVC said:
He's also being overrated as a defender. He does a good job recovering when he's beat, but he's rarely in a good defensive stance, and gets crossed fairly easily. Sure, he frequently recovers, but when he loses his man initially, the rest of the defense breaks a bit trying to cover for him.
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Although, Cy, as you've pointed out, it's mostly the offense that suffers when Dante's playing, scoring 104.8 points per 48 when Dante's off-court and 86.6 points per 48 when Dante's on-court.
 
Finally watching the Atlanta game. Rudy is crushing it. Also good to see Hayward back in form.
 
Dwight made his mom cry when he told her that he signed with Utah, But the Jazz made Dwight Coward cry when Gobert stepped on the court.
 
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