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Can the Alec Burks experiment please end?

BabyPeterzz said:
His contract was a huge reach and a big gamble IMO, and I love Burks. We'll see if he lives up to it.

It definitely doesn't look good tho. The Jazz overpay on potential for a guard that gets hurt right after he inks the deal. He could've gone into FA and the Jazz could've picked him up for waaaaaaaay cheaper. DL fumbled on this one unfortunately.
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I'm so sorry AB. **** me and **** this thread.
 
Your AVATAR either says 2 things.

You are a girl so therefore go back to the kitchen since little things in the game of basketball that doesn't show up on stats sheets is just way to confusing for your small brain


Or you are gay which look above and times it by 4. Bet almost every gm would take him if you just want to give Burks away since he sucks like you claim




TroutBum said:
You know why I don't post here very often? Because Jazz fans are homers, and truth is a bitch.



No, but killing yourself is a great one. Yay for suicide jokes!



At least one person in this thread watched the game. He's going into his third year of professional basketball, yet he still sticks his arms out, when his opponent is facing him behind the three point line, and allows him to initiate contact for three free throws. Stupidity.

We go on an 11-2 run, are within striking range, all while number 10 is on the bench. The instant he comes in, well, we lose.

Just watch him next game. Watch how often he looks to pass the ball versus how many ******** shots he chucks up.

I put very little weight into +/- stats, but his -14 led the team. If you watched the game, you knew it before I mentioned it.
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I can't believe there are some dismissing him already.
He's been injured.
He was doing great before the injury.
I think he just needs time to shake the rust and get back to normal. He'll be a bad *** guard in this league.
 
bjwsan said:
-1 oh so funny. you do the same on the 3PT shot over Hayward?
Kobe still has some 20 year practiced moves... he can it once or twice a game
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Hayward defended that well enough. Listen to coaches. "We don't try to block jump shots we challenge them".
 
franklin said:
Hayward defended that well enough. Listen to coaches. "We don't try to block jump shots we challenge them".
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So basically exactly what Burks did... Challenge the shot. Kobe took a fadeaway jumpshot and Burks challenged it quite nicely. Kobe is pretty good at those types of shots, not much more Burks could have done. Also, if you challenge kobe too hard its an automatic foul with the treatment refs give him. You just hope he misses.
franklin said:
https://vine.co/v/e20E1MTMwU0
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franklin said:
Hayward defended that well enough. Listen to coaches. "We don't try to block jump shots we challenge them".
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uhhh... yea, that's what I said, about Hayward AND Burks...
but knew you couldn't hate Hayward for doing the same that Burks did... :)
 
The way I see this situation:
Kobe is 1v1 in transition vs Alec, dribbles the the ball on the right block slightly above the baseline, which is good since it prevents someone from spotting up in that corner or cutting baseline.
Alec gives up a lot of space potentially because he was the only defender when Kobe established the deep post position, in order to not give him a chance to spin around him for an easy layup.
You see Withey busy focusing on the ball and Kelly simultaneously. Randle was the one trailing the play, never arriving until the shooting motion was already ongoing. Booker was switched onto Clarkson and Millsap waited on top of the key for Randle to trail the play, while Booker after short hesitation in the paint where he probably considered double teaming Kobe communicated with Millsap he'll switch onto Clarkson for the possession and afterwards he went to Clarkson who moved towards the weak side corner slowly when Kobe initated his final move.
I suppose the idea of the defense in this situation is that Withey at first stays in the paint to help if Kobe goes towards the middle while staying within reach of Kelly and Burks job is to take away the baseline primarily.
Kobe chose probably the most difficult of all shooting options in that situation, and Burks contested. You can't close out to a fadeaway shot too hard since you can't limit his landing spot and risk a foul if you do in that situation.
I think the proximity of the shot was mostly caused by this being an early offense/transition possession which allowed Kobe to get this close in the first place without much effort.
Another strategy could have been a soft double by Booker to force the ball out of Kobe's hands before Randle arrives by using the extra body. But that would have required Millsap to not wait around the nail, but switch back onto Clarkson.
Had Withey doubled he'd have risked an easy pass to Kelly and I guess it's more the Jazz defense style to have the help defense rotate over late since the majority of the minutes you have to replace Withey with Gobert who is the stifle tower ;)

tl;dr: The vine doesn't show it's a contained fast break attempt by Kobe and communication probably caused the defense not to double.
Burks played smart and within his limits.
 
fishonjazz said:
So basically exactly what Burks did... Challenge the shot. Kobe took a fadeaway jumpshot and Burks challenged it quite nicely. Kobe is pretty good at those types of shots, not much more Burks could have done. Also, if you challenge kobe too hard its an automatic foul with the treatment refs give him. You just hope he misses.
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I didn't know sticking your hands out and lunging forward with one arm like that was considered contesting.
 
franklin said:
I didn't know sticking your hands out and lunging forward with one arm like that was considered contesting.
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You learn something new every day.

You're welcome
 
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