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he might experiment with it, but that doesn't mean the experiment won't fail like it has every time a coach thought he could activate foye's inner point guard that hides deep within.

my point about the pistons is that they had a lot of balance in their starting unit, and efficient enough players on the bench that the drop-off was pretty minor when the first five sat down. my point about al has always been that he sucks in ways that don't show up in PER - like horrendous...

he's close to "elite" already. since i'm in query mode, i just looked it up. he was #51 last year in FTA/36. #31 among players who played at least 900 minutes, and if we narrow THAT list down to guards only then its: harden westbrook wade kobe lou williams derrick rose stuckey dwill...

put another way... 34 times in the history of the utah jazz, players have reached the per-36 levels of alec this year in points, rebounds, assists and steals. in fact, paul hit those levels himself twice. guess how many times a player has matched the per-36 levels of paul in those same...

c'mon, you know that scoring wings are easy to find than versatile power forwards with a 21+ PER. and anyway, what i'm talking about are wing players who score well but don't help their team much. i did a query for post-3 point era wing players who had a rotation spot (>/= 20 mpg) and had 15...

all these things are true. i have it on pretty good authority that hayward knew exactly what he was doing with west. probably had no way of knowing that THAT would be the reaction, but he was messing with west all game long.

if burks reaches his absolute ceiling, i mean 100% of his best-case scenario, then yeah, he's untouchable. but if he becomes anything less than 100% of that, then he's just another high-scoring wing player, which is about the easiest thing to find in the NBA. so many teams have overreacted to...

then you have no idea what the market value is for a player of that caliber. to go out and replace paul in free agency, we're looking at 4 yrs 50M minimum. we might get a discount on paul because there won't be a ton of buyers next summer, but it's silly to think we can get someone that good for...

i think he'll probably be the 4th wing, which i'm ok with. i'd rather he play those last 15-20 rotation minutes than carroll or (at this point) murphy. but if he starts playing more than the other 3, i'll be fairly miffed.

i hope you're joking cy... chauncey 2004 - 16.9 pts, 5.7 ast, .394 shooting and a PER of 18.6 tayshaun 2004 - 10.3 pts, 4.8 reb, .467 shooting and a PER of 13.3 rip 2004 - 17.6 pts, 4.0 ast, .455 shooting and a PER of 16.8 sheed 2004 - 13.7 pts, 7.0 reb, .431 shooting and a PER of 18.8...

this is exactly why memo (or ANY 4th big for that matter) only makes sense if they do something with al first.

if foye cracks 20 mpg, then somebody i like a lot more isn't getting enough PT. hayward has been our best player for a moment or two at a time, burks sounds like he's ready to take a big step, and i think still say the world is underestimating what marvin can still do. those are three guys who...

tell me which two guys from the piston's championship team were better than paul in overall terms. they won a championship with billups as their best player, followed by rip (one-dimensional guy who scored 17 per game), a 14-ppg version of sheed, tayshaun (who didn't even average double figures...

the ad about diabetes i had to watch to get to the jazz segment was almost as long as the segment itself.

i think he absolutely could be a starter for a champ... but not as the main guy. paul could absolutely be the 2nd or 3rd best player on a championship team. also, i think he'll accept whatever role he has to if the jazz are winning and he's contributing.

oh gotcha, thanks. he's another decent outside shooter, but i'm not sure he answers the "playmaking backup" bill i've been asking for.

oops forgot marvin. says he is passive on O (at least was in atl) and isn't the lockdown defender the hawks tried to make him.

he's pretty much spot on about everybody. exaggerates in some cases, but he's got everybody pretty much right. - favors is a defensive beast but still has a ways to go to be an offensive presence - hayward is an average shooter and ball handler but passes and defends well - he's crazy high on...

i love how everybody in this thread knows: a) the exact shape memo is in. b) the contract he'd be demanding. i mean, it's not gonna happen... but c'mon, when did you all have this magical workout session followed by a contract negotiation?

"somebody who's got some NBA experience" as a PG camp invite. hmm. i agree it's more likely it's someone on the quinn end of the spectrum than the fisher end of the spectrum, but we'll see. i hope what we're hearing about burks is true. in particular, i hope his court vision and decision-making...