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homeytennis

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This is a serious threat. With Burks and Lyles in the dog house would you rather have this year's Jazz bench or the bench of a couple of years ago with Book, Cooley, Little Sap and Cotton? It seems Quinn has no confidence in some of our pine riders.
 
I'd prefer to be healthy and bring JJ, Boris, Ingles and Exum off the bench. It would also be nice if Hood increased his productivity where he contributes in at least 75% of the games and Hill would show he deserves more than the mle.
 
3 players of the core of our bench are being forced to play as starters. That effectively dwindles the impact our bench productivity.
 
I'm hoping we win the next two (we better) and then have Favors (at like 80% or better) come back for the last three games and post-season. I doubt 7-15 more games will **** him up much worse if at all and then he'll have 4-6 months to heal and rehab.

And Hill too. Gotta get him back.

A Bench of Exum-Ingles-JJ-Diaw and someone else should be solid for the playoffs and to answer the OP, better than our bench from previous seasons. Hopefully Burks is the fifth guy but who knows what's going on. Maybe it's Mack and he and Exum play together.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
I'm hoping we win the next two (we better) and then have Favors (at like 80% or better) come back for the last three games and post-season. I doubt 7-15 more games will **** him up much worse if at all and then he'll have 4-6 months to heal and rehab.

And Hill too. Gotta get him back.

A Bench of Exum-Ingles-JJ-Diaw and someone else should be solid for the playoffs and to answer the OP, better than our bench from previous seasons. Hopefully Burks is the fifth guy but who knows what's going on. Maybe it's Mack and he and Exum play together.
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This year Booker is averaging 10 points per game and 8.1 rebounds on .518 shooting and .325 from 3. Compare that to Lyles and Cooley is close to averaging a double double in Europe. These two may not be the most talented but you can't fault them for not playing hard.
 
homeytennis said:
This year Booker is averaging 10 points per game and 8.1 rebounds on .518 shooting and .325 from 3. Compare that to Lyles and Cooley is close to averaging a double double in Europe. These two may not be the most talented but you can't fault them for not playing hard.
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If this thread was about whether or not Lyles has massively **** the bed, then I think the answer would be obvious. So, yes, Booker would have been much better.
 
If Jazz management had known about the injury issues, Lyles being terrible, and being unable to use their cap space for anything I think they'd want a do-over on Booker.

Can't really fault them for not seeing that **** storm though.
 
NAOS said:
If this thread was about whether or not Lyles has massively **** the bed, then I think the answer would be obvious. So, yes, Booker would have been much better.
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I am really starting to think Lyles shooting last year may have been the outlier... he might just not be a good shooter. The FT percentage has never been good and Andy Larsen mentioned he wasn't even making them in practice. I hoped it was mental but I think it just might not be good.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I am really starting to think Lyles shooting last year may have been the outlier... he might just not be a good shooter. The FT percentage has never been good and Andy Larsen mentioned he wasn't even making them in practice. I hoped it was mental but I think it just might not be good.
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That's certainly possible. But I also think this might fit into the 2nd/3rd-year head trauma cases I've seen in the past.

I'm the guy who is rooting for Trey with my arms folded and an offended look on my face.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
If Jazz management had known about the injury issues, Lyles being terrible, and being unable to use their cap space for anything I think they'd want a do-over on Booker.

Can't really fault them for not seeing that **** storm though.
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I remember watching Booker's old man play for Missouri, that dude you could play. I'm not surprised the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree.
 
NAOS said:
That's certainly possible. But I also think this might fit into the 2nd/3rd-year head trauma cases I've seen in the past.

I'm the guy who is rooting for Trey with my arms folded and an offended look on my face.
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When the Mailman broke into the League he was a horrible free throw shooter. Through hard work he made himself more than adquate at that aspect of the game. I hope Lyles comes out next year with his hair on fire after the summer to reboot.
 
NAOS said:
That's certainly possible. But I also think this might fit into the 2nd/3rd-year head trauma cases I've seen in the past.

I'm the guy who is rooting for Trey with my arms folded and an offended look on my face.
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That's where I put it until the Andy Larsen tweet saying he wasn't making them in practice. Probably read too much into it.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
That's where I put it until the Andy Larsen tweet saying he wasn't making them in practice. Probably read too much into it.
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I posted elsewhere that Trey may be having the worst Sophomore slump in franchise history. I guess I'm not too surprised that it's carried over into practice. Severe head trauma is a bitch.
 
NAOS said:
I posted elsewhere that Trey may be having the worst Sophomore slump in franchise history. I guess I'm not too surprised that it's carried over into practice. Severe head trauma is a bitch.
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Maybe Koufus? Can't remember what year Sloan cut all his minutes. Seem to remember him having flashes his rookie year and being good when he actually played, but then just never playing his 2nd year and looking terrified when he did

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