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If he replaces Burks and Neto he's going to get 15-20 minutes a game. Definitely not a waste of time at all. I think Crowder's adjustment to a completely different style of offense and teammates will be much bigger than Exum just knocking off a bit of rust. It's not like he had a lower leg...

I just want him to play like he did in preseason. He wasn't starting, but he was playing within himself and being aggressive. He can slide right in to that backup 1/2 role for the rest of the season and likely helps as he is a much better defender than Burks or Neto. We'll have to see...

It might have been this thread or elsewhere but I heard he is now working on picks and getting heavy contact with pads etc. Maybe after this road trip we'll have a solid date for his return.

I saw this. I wouldn't even say he is a closet Dante hater. He's been a pretty openly dismissive of Exum and very slow to give him any props. You can tell he has super low expectations of Dante. I remember last year he wrote that horrible article using terrible stats to try to show why Mack was...

I mean yeah it depends on that and also on the ability of the PG to be a scoring threat (or the PnR ball handler I guess). There are obviously 4 points of pressure. The threat of a shot if the defender goes under, the threat of a drive that leads to help, the threat of the roll (or the pop with...

I think the Mitchell saga will be a really interesting look at where we are as an egalitarian NBA. I've been hearing for a while that stars can kind of go anywhere now with social media and the internet being so ubiquitous. Donovan should probably be getting a shoe deal, and even more national...

Maybe top 10, but he'll never get credit for that. Definitely not for the entire season, but over the last stretch of games he's been amazing. Never seen a player dominate a game so much without scoring. It's like he's a black hole down there and just affects everything on every play. Thibs...

That's because Rudy was injured and playing at about 60%. He was moving like he was on ice skates the whole playoffs when he was actually playing. It doesn't matter though. I still think it's time to move on, but we'll see what the Jazz think.

I think saying "won us those games" is a pretty big reach. He filled in admirably and even moreso when you consider that he still wan't all the way healthy. But DJ dominated him, and he still only averaged 10 and 7 in that series. Joe Johnson going ham a couple times was what won that series I...

I was on the Jabari train, and I'm still not completely off, but I want to see him playing starter minutes this season. He's still being treated like a 6th man right now. He looks pretty athletic to me, which is impressive since it generally takes 18 months to fully regain whatever athleticism...

Nah like I said it's not worth the time. I read through the whole thing which is why I called you out by name. You were all over the place. If you don't understand why at this point you likely never will or are just going to stubbornly argue. It's not worth any more of my time. Cheers.

It's all there. An honest person would just own it, you know? I don't think your takes on this deserve any more time. If you want to go back and correct them yourself I would respect the hell out of that move.

Yeah Archie deserves special mention as being prolifically wrong in this thread while also being really condescending about it. That is a really amazing combo and we have it all in writing.

This is an all-time horrific take that should be a bannable offense. If I had done something like this I would self-ban.

He needs to get the ball more. This team has been much worse at delivering catchable passes to him. I can excuse Donovan for some of this becuase he's still learning how to read those situations but the rest of the guys have to be better. He should be getting 16PPG easy just on rim dives and...

I don't really think he impacts winning very much at all. It's Gobert that is the key. If he's playing and healthy Favs is a nice luxury to have a times, but more redundant than complimentary. I think A Gobert/Stretch/Udoh/Jerebko rotation would be just as good, and maybe better depending on the...

I don't think it would be a good idea to keep Favs unless you can't find another option anywhere. Games like last night just remind me how much we are wasting Gobert by making him play with Rubio and Favors for so many minutes. He would be killing it with more room to work inside and more...

The difference is pretty obviously that Gobert is an elite defender and rim protector. Favors is a good or even very good defender but not a good rim protector. One can anchor a defensive system and one simply cannot. Rudy is one of the few archetypes that work in the modern game without a 3...

Dante wasn't timid last year, especially near the end of the season. He wasn't timid in the preseason. This is a 3 year old observation. The only thing that made him tentative at times was that last year he would get benched for a TO instead of the coaches prioritizing his learning while making...

Locke has always been a bit of an Exum hater. I don't know what it is but somebody that he talks to a lot on the staff is not a huge Exum fan, I think. Putting Exum on a short leash is just such a dumbass way to proceed, but it doesn't surprise me that Locke thinks this way.