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Reflections on the early pre-season

Ferguson_Mellochill

Ferguson_Mellochill

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Here are a few things that stand out to me:

- Trey Burke will at least be a good point guard. Not great maybe, but good. He just needs to build his confidence and learn how he's going to score his points. He should be a top 10-12 PG within a few years.
- Kanter doesn't look like he's quite in shape. He seems like he's playing at 3/4 speed and doesn't have the fire he had last season. Maybe he's pacing himself knowing that he's going to play more minutes.
- Alec Burks can be a special scorer, especially going against other teams' second units.
- Favors still has almost no offense. He's got more confidence in his mid-range jumper and that's about it. Now that he's heavier he doesn't have as much quickness and lift as he used to have. Hopefully, that doesn't lead to more fouls. He will probably be the primary defensive rebounder so that Kanter can leak out.
- I'm afraid Favors' limitations are going to force Kanter to play away from the post in order to improve our spacing. However, neither of our bigs look comfortable putting the ball on the floor. I'm not sure why.
- Jeremy Evans is just an energy player for 10 mins/night, if that.
- Biedrins is really quite useless.
- Brandon Rush could help spread the floor with our starting unit, which would make life easier for everyone else. Wonder when he's going to play.
- Everyone of our guys can be shut down by the other team's defense. We don't really have a go-to scorer.
 
I've only seen the first game, but I really hope Alec learns to play within the offense. I don't want him to become a Jamal Crawford type player
 
Zulu said:
Help us Alec Burks....


You are our only hope!!!!
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Burks looks like he is the only guy on the team right now who can create his own shot.

On defense he still suffers from a severe case of "that's-not-my-guy-itis" I caught him about 4 or 5 times guarding no one instead of rotating when The Clippers we're moving the ball around the perimeter. Definitely not the only one though.
 
hayward can create hus own shot. Teams are really gocusing in hin, tripple tesming the dtive and he is ginding the open shooter. He needs help though... hes not getting much. When Kanters rust vomes off that will be good.

Favors did not help himself much this summer... he is still the same guy as last year.
 
candrew said:
Burks looks like he is the only guy on the team right now who can create his own shot.

On defense he still suffers from a severe case of "that's-not-my-guy-itis" I caught him about 4 or 5 times guarding no one instead of rotating when The Clippers we're moving the ball around the perimeter. Definitely not the only one though.
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his defensive potential is high though, when he tries. He completely shut down Crawford on an isolation, that is not easy to do when he has open space to work.
 
The rotation is a nightmare and will almost certainly persist into the regular season. Kanter and Favors need 38 MPG, not 19.
 
phippsj said:
hayward can create hus own shot. Teams are really gocusing in hin, tripple tesming the dtive and he is ginding the open shooter. He needs help though... hes not getting much. When Kanters rust vomes off that will be good.

Favors did not help himself much this summer... he is still the same guy as last year.
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Please report to GD - "what you sippin on"
 
I think this is going to be a long roller coaster of a season. I also think this year we will find out whether Hayward and Favors are the future or not.
 
For all our talk about Burks being the odd man out, it's actually looking like Burks is the odd man in.
 
Weezur said:
For all our talk about Burks being the odd man out, it's actually looking like Burks is the odd man in.
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Thank god for injuries.

If bell, cj, josh howard, mo williams, earl watson, rush, and marvin never get injured then burks would never get to play.
And now burke.

That is actually pretty amazing that all of those players suffered some kind of significunt injury in the last three years..... meanwhile burks has never been injured (other than a sprained ankle that made him miss like 2 quarters)

All of those players have started a regular season game. (Other than burke)
Meanwhile burks still has not.... and he is arguably better than everyone of those guys
 
fishonjazz said:
Thank god for injuries.

If bell, cj, josh howard, mo williams, earl watson, rush, and marvin never get injured then burks would never get to play.
And now burke.

That is actually pretty amazing that all of those players suffered some kind of significunt injury in the last three years..... meanwhile burks has never been injured (other than a sprained ankle that made him miss like 2 quarters)

All of those players have started a regular season game. (Other than burke)
Meanwhile burks still has not.... and he is arguably better than everyone of those guys
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Kind of sounds like SABOTAGE??? by Burks.
 
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