Jazz Getting a New GM?

[Hitman]

that said, i think the CJ comparison is bunk.

I don't. Their per-minute stats are quite similar. Burks may play with "energy" and Miles may appear "lazy" but the results of their play are the same.

yes, their PPM and assist % are very close,

Their PPM is close because Miles and Burks ranked 3rd and 4th in shots/minute, just in front of Howard. Miles and Burks ranked 13th and 9th in FG%. Miles made more threes and more free throws, which made up for his poor percentages and bumped his PPM up to the same level. Basically, Burks is most similar as a shooter to Miles and Howard - not good company to keep.

Their assist/min are identical, but Burks had a higher turnover rate.

but there are some key differences: burks has better FG percentage,

Burks took most of his shots at the rim, but his two-point shooting percentage is only 43.8% (10th on the team). Miles and Howard both shot 41.6% on two-pointers (tied for 11th) - and again, not good company to keep.

got to the line 28% more often

Where he shot significantly worse than Miles, negating this supposed advantage - he took more FT than Miles but made fewer.

rebounded significantly better

The one and only area where he was significantly better than Miles. And not just because Miles is a crap rebounder (his reb/min is less than Earl Watson's), Burks reb/min is very good for a player his size. (As an aside, rebounding is an issue with Hayward, too, he also collected less reb/min than Watson.)

Interestingly, most of the difference in rebounds/min between Burks and Miles comes from Burks getting way more offensive rebounds. Is this because he is an aggressive rebounder, or is it because he mostly takes his shots at the rim and is in the best position to collect his own misses?

and fouled less

His defence was pretty poor from what I recall, pretty hard to foul the man you're guarding when you are nowhere near him. But I will grant that Miles definitely took the stat of Dumb Fouls With The Clock Running Out to a whole new level.

... and he's a rookie.

And already he's sunk to CJ Miles levels. And he maintained that level throughout the season.

 

[northeast]

What I take out of all that is that Burks gets to the line, and rebounds. I'll take it.

 

[theNBAnerd]

my point is simply that he's a different kind of player than CJ, so it's sloppy to make the comparison just because their points per 36 were so close together. burks has shown a willingness to do things that CJ has never done consistently over 7 years. of course there are also areas of his game that need refining, as there are with most 20-year-olds. calling him the second coming of CJ based on his rookie year is a huge conslusion to jump to.

 

[green]

Hilarious. Last week, Burks is going to be the next Kobe. This week? He will be lucky to be as good as CJ. LOL.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

Hilarious. Last week, Burks is going to be the next Kobe. This week? He will be lucky to be as good as CJ. LOL.

What he can be and what he is are two entirely different things.

 

[Ellipse]

With all respect, either that professor must be not a really good professor or you were a not very good student.

My degree is in applied mathematics. What's yours in?

 

[zbone]

My degree is in applied mathematics. What's yours in?

LOL, same.

 

[TheSilencer1313]

Nope. Brewer was traded because he and his agent were FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR apart in terms of money demands prior to the season. KOC couldn't get an extension signed and knew there was virtually ZERO chance of re-signing Brewer at a price close to what the Jazz thought a poor-shooting SG should get.

Sorry, but wrong.
KOC has come out and said multiple times that they were eyeing Jefferson for a couple years.
He knew Boozer was on his way out, and they needed a replacement to keep the Jazz in "contender status".

Nobody understood at the time, that KOC was clearing cap space to get Jefferson on the books.
Even Deron Williams condemned this action, but nobody knew what Kevin was planning for.

O'Conner has admittedly said multiple times, that this is the reason the Brewer trade happened.

 

[GVC]

Nobody understood at the time, that KOC was clearing cap space to get Jefferson on the books.

1. Brewer was to be a free agent in 2010. Trading him didn't create any cap space the Jazz wouldn't have had anyway.

2. The Jazz were well above the cap in 10/11.

3. The Jazz used the trade exception from the Boozer S&T, not cap space (which they didn't have), to acquire Big Al.

 

[Stifle Tower]

1. Brewer was to be a free agent in 2010. Trading him didn't create any cap space the Jazz wouldn't have had anyway.

2. The Jazz were well above the cap in 10/11.

3. The Jazz used the trade exception from the Boozer S&T, not cap space (which they didn't have), to acquire Big Al.

All of us are, in effect, right.
1. KOC worked diligently to reach an extension with Brewer before the season. Reports at the time said he and his agent were FAR apart from the Jazz in terms of the contract amount.

2. KOC and Kahn DID talk about a Jefferson trade at the deadline, but nothing got done.

3. Reportedly, Kahn wanted an additional 1st for Al. And the Jazz got that 1st from OKC by trading RB.

So trading RB was not necessarily the plan initially, but after KOC determined he wasn't going to be able to re-sign him for the right price, he "Deron'd" him. It made sense to get an asset rather than lose him for nothing.