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It's an interesting theoretical question. At what point is a player's offense so good that you figure out how to work around their defensive limitations. We've seen this summer that the value of extremely high level offensive guards, that are limited defensively, have very limited value right...

Probably. It's not what I find entertaining, but I get it.

Just watched the replay, he looked good. Tre Johnson looks ok as well, but still waiting for him to go off and have a crazy scoring game soon.

Very good thread, thanks for starting it. The best defensive teams are loaded with players that can both play on ball as well as in help. We have very few players that can do either. We also lack a considerable amount of defensive BBIQ. Most surprising is that for a team as young as we...

Lauri was also matched up with AD.

I think WCJ might have the best handle on the team. I also think he processes the game better than most of our players. I believe in his off the bounce game based off of college, although he needs to show it in the NBA to help open things up for him. I don't think he is an elite passer and I...

If you just pretend that this is Cody's rookie year then I think you would be pretty happy right now. He's the only guy playing right now that is playing both good man defense and help defense, as he continues to get stronger he will be a good defender, I'm pretty confident. His shot looks...

I'm trying very hard to give him at least until the all star break before saying anything negative. Him being on the court and getting reps in at this point is all positive.

That lineup of Davis, Flagg, and Lively was always going to be difficult to score on. The paint was completely locked up, Lauri was locked up by Davis, and Keyonte was locked up by Flagg. Fortunately that lineup was pretty bad offensively for Dallas as well. I'm not sure what the NBA's...

I'm not enjoying the Love minutes.

The Dallas defense with Davis on the court is very good.

Cody!!!

Keep it up Brice!

Cody playing great defense that quarter. We desperately need his offense to come around so that he is playable. At least his misses are hitting the rim this year.

The point of my post was really that despite Brice shooting a significant volume, he isn't taking very difficult shots. For most players the degree of difficulty is baked in to the volume, because in order to get high volume you have to be willing to take difficult shots. For Brice this wasn't...

It's all subjective, agreed. I'm actually not arguing with anyone at this point just pointing out the way I'm thinking about it personally. I think the data is pretty clear to me. Brice isn't respected as a top level shooter yet. Most likely because nobody cares about Utah, but also probably...

I'm going to regret piling on like this, but I had some time to look up the stats, and I think you are underscoring his degree of difficulty. My guess is he had some of the easiest shots for a volume 3pt shooter due to nobody caring about the Jazz last year. Here are the numbers: - 25th in...

Another interesting question is who is out of the main rotation on opening night. Assuming Nurk and Anderson are in the rotation, I think that means at least 2 rookie contract players will be out of the rotation. If Flip and Collier are injured I guess that's easy, but I thought they should...

I guess I need to listen to Simmons more because I'm not familiar with the reference. If the argument is that Brice will be a top 20 shooter by the end of the year that puts him in to the conversation for higher, then that's not as crazy

Brice as a top 6 shooter in the NBA is insane and sounds like a crazy homer. Go tell that to any non Jazz fan and they are going to either laugh at you or say, "Brice Who?" It's not a knock on Brice either, there are just so many great shooters in the NBA right now. And, yes, best shooter...