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Free Alec Burks

Free him!
 
mellow said:
No, I think you got that turned around, 27 out of 45 played for teams with better records.

I thought it would be like you said, lots of minutes for players on crappy teams, the numbers didn't show that, but I didn't keep track of the count. But through the wonders of the internet I was able to pull the same data again today and count. It looks like the NBA updated their stats, it now shows 48 sophomores having played this year.

Alec Burks ranks 35th in minutes per game and 33 in total minutes. Kanter is 25th and 20th.

Using just Burks total minutes, there are 15 players on teams with records worse than the Jazz who have played more minutes. That means 16 (32-15-Kanter) that are playing on teams with records better than or equal to the jazz.

It is also interesting to see that most of the players that are close to Alec in minutes played were late first rounders. The closest lottery pick is Jimmer, who still gets more minutes than Alec.


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But yes, I was waiting for someone to provide minutes per game in the context of lottery pick sophmores this year.
 
Great, Burks agent already spreading 'Burks is available' rumors. Getting press via national writers. This situation is ****ed
 
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With Hayward struggling with his shot and our team really struggling to get easy buckets in the paint and at the FT line Burks could have really made a difference last night.
 
The Thriller said:
With Hayward struggling with his shot and our team really struggling to get easy buckets in the paint and at the FT line Burks could have really made a difference last night.
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Nope. Corbin pulled all the right strings last night. Alec is obviously too young to play NBA basketball. He's shown us time and time again he doesn't belong on the court.
 
And Hayward his first two years showed he was so mature. It is about seeing time on the court Favors, Kanter, and Hayward have seen tons of time on the court and Burks hasn't seen the time hence his struggles. The fact is that this team isn't anything special so why not give him a chance.
 
kennykyle said:
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Like how burks is shooting 20% from the line? That would help a lot.
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Right, because Burks has shown us over the course of his young career that we shouldn't expect anything more than 20% free throw shooting from him.

I swear, some people act like last season never happened, and that the couple minutes here and there every few weeks when Burks finally gets on the court is exactly what we should expect if he was getting a consistent 20 minutes per game.
 
Kennykyle is kind of clueless when it comes to the burks situation.....very narrow minded only looking at his numbers in his limited time on the floor this season when he has been playing small forward and point guard as much as his preferred position of shooting guard..... also the majority of his minutes have been with end of the bench guys like evans and murphy.

All he can see are the numbers though, not what is happening to help make those numbers exist.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Right, because Burks has shown us over the course of his young career that we shouldn't expect anything more than 20% free throw shooting from him.

I swear, some people act like last season never happened, and that the couple minutes here and there every few weeks when Burks finally gets on the court is exactly what we should expect if he was getting a consistent 20 minutes per game.
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Yeah, but it does kind of show his lack of focus when he gets put into the game. He doesn't seem to look at getting into a blowout game as an opportunity, rather he sees it as a punishment.

Also, I thought it was kind of funny the moment someone gets injured to free up time for Burks (Mo), Watson comes back to take the minutes. If Watson was still injured, we would be seeing a Foye/Burks or a Burks/Hayward backcourt.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Yeah, but it does kind of show his lack of focus when he gets put into the game. He doesn't seem to look at getting into a blowout game as an opportunity, rather he sees it as a punishment.

Also, I thought it was kind of funny the moment someone gets injured to free up time for Burks (Mo), Watson comes back to take the minutes. If Watson was still injured, we would be seeing a Foye/Burks or a Burks/Hayward backcourt.
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I don't think it shows us a damn thing. If we were to use such a small sample size, Millsap and Hayward must totally suck based on last night.

We have all of last season to go off of. The combined 20 minutes spread out over 5 games (or whatever he's gotten this season) don't mean anything. Of course the guy isn't going to play to his full potential if he only gets 4 minutes a week of playing time, and all of those minutes in garbage time with a bunch of scrubs who are all trying to showcase their own individual skills rather than play team ball.

Corbin himself has said many times that Burks deserves more minutes. The clowns on this board saying otherwise are clueless.
 
SaltyDawg said:
I don't think it shows us a damn thing. If we were to use such a small sample size, Millsap and Hayward must totally suck based on last night.

We have all of last season to go off of. The combined 20 minutes spread out over 5 games (or whatever he's gotten this season) don't mean anything. Of course the guy isn't going to play to his full potential if he only gets 4 minutes a week of playing time, and all of those minutes in garbage time with a bunch of scrubs who are all trying to showcase their own individual skills rather than play team ball.

Corbin himself has said many times that Burks deserves more minutes. The clowns on this board saying otherwise are clueless.
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Wasn't disagreeing that he needs more minutes. Obviously I think he is better than his stats indicate, I just think you can tell from his body language in his limited time he doesn't play those garbage minuets as if they matter. That in turn has made for some really ****ty stats over a small period of time.
 
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