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11/15/14: Utah Jazz at Toronto Raptors, 5:30 pm (local)

And finally with respect to Burkes and Exum and shooting... First it is clear that there is brick element to Burkes shooting. Second, he is pushing himself on drives to the hoop and so he takes some low percentage shots. This is acceptable to me. He has to learn. Additionally, he takes a lot of difficult long range shots. This is both by choice (poor choice) and some because there is nothing left but for him to give it a shot. Exum never or rarely has that kind of contested shot. He's doing his work primarily on isolated catch and shoots for 3s and always defers at the end of the shot clock. So there respective stats are not indicative of what they are being asked to do.
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He is the only one that is consistently taking the long range 2pter off the screen. I think this is acceptable to QS and TB is asked to do that. Watching Lillard be so dangerous at that range, including 3pt and beyond a little, is the emulation goal for Burke. but right now he's doing long range 2's, which are considered the worst shot to try. So it is just the stepping stone to being a guy you must 'go over the screen' on.
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The claim is the QS is the development coach super hero. We'll see if he can help Burke. And lets see if Burke is willing to be precise and diligent enough to become an NBA starter.
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BTW. Watching Mansap grow from a fringe player in the beginning who "had a nose for the ball" to such a smooth, legit NBA starter makes me have hope in most everyone who appears to have NBA talent - like Burke. Maybe Sap had more skill that was evident or maybe he's a consummate worker. I hope Trey has it though and I haven't given up on him. (There's no need to.)
 
Harcher said:
Also, regarding Burkes' defense... there were times in the second half where his physical posture was not correct and getting worked by Lou Williams. This includes the weak sauce 4pt play opportunity of someone in the corner and a couple of mid-range shake and bakes by Lou. I think he's exhausted and the Raptors coach made a nice move putting a fresh dude out there (Williams) who is all offense to take advantage. But again, I think this year + one offseason is a reasonable time to see if he can take the jump to the next level he needs to start being able to handle a quality dude like Lowry.
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crazy thing is IIRC burke got called for a foul on a 3 TWICE. how does that happen? We were jumping at every pump fake (nearly the whole team, not just burke).... Snyder needs to remedy that.
 
Didn't get to watch this game. It would have been a crazy win - the Raptors are solid. How did Kanter look on defense? I hope he wasn't the one guarding Patterson (checked the box score).
 
raptors are for real guys. they will be top 4 seed. just awful 2nd half. we just couldn't get it going. **** happens in a back to back road trip games.
 
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Spinoza said:
Okay, here's the thing Quin: The PRESEASON IS OVER!

The time for experimenting with lineups, substitution patterns, and working on player development has to take a backseat to trying to win during the regular season.

Bringing back the starters at 12 minutes in 4th was DUMB. Then you decide to plug back in the bench players at random times during the 4th? Abominable coaching.
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And thus, it has begun.
 
fishonjazz said:
What's not to understand.
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I'm confused I guess.

I swear I looked at scores tonight and saw the pacers blown out and only totalling 50 pts.

Looked just now and they scored 99
 
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