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Burks at PG?

I'm sure we will see that line up a bunch this season. If Hood and Burks both start that makes our bench pretty weak so one of them will need to come off the bench as our 6th man. However, I could see a line up of Burks, Hood, Hayward, Favors, and Gobert finishing games.
 
I don't think of it as Burks at the point... I think of it as playing Burks, Hood, and Hayward at the same time. Sprinkle in some Ingles. Basically if the value of Burks being on the floor is greater than Burke et al... then run out the best players.

I don't worry about him guarding point guards he's pretty good on ball... may even help him be more effective. Off ball and help seems to be a bigger issue. Either way he won't be worse than Trey.

As far as playing point guard on offense I think Hood would be best at it. Runs PnR like a mother effer. I don't think we should do it all the time and don't think we should do it to start the game, but if it is your best lineup run it out there some... maybe even close with it.

I think it would cause problems for other teams on both sides of the court.
 
Howard said:
If we have Burks at PG, we have nobody coming off the bench who can score.
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If Hayward plays 34 mins and Hood 30 that's 64 of the available 96 at the 2/3. If Jingles plays 20 again we are up to 84. There is 12 mins left. There is no reason imv that Burks can't play those 12 and 18-20 at the pg. That means either Burke and Neto split ~30 mins or we get a stating caliber pg to take them.
 
Why does Burks name constantly come up about running the point?

Hayward is a far better option for that. He creates so much better than Burks, and is a much better passer. He can even adequately guard point guards. Hayward already initiates the offense quite a bit.

But yet, for some reason, it's always let's have Burks do it. No! Burks wouldn't make for a good point guard.

If we didn't have Hayward, I'd still probably not like Burks running it. But we do have Hayward, and he's essentially a 6'8" point guard in the way that he plays.
 
hawkeye said:
If Hood and Burks both start that makes our bench pretty weak so one of them will need to come off the bench as our 6th man.
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Siro said:
Also, We need someone who can score coming off the bench
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Howard said:
If we have Burks at PG, we have nobody coming off the bench who can score.
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All this worry about who will score when the bench unit is in............ couldn't snyder just stagger the substitution pattern/line-up so that the jazz always have 2 (or even 3) of burks, hayward, hood, and favors on the court at all time?

Handlogten's Heros said:
I don't think of it as Burks at the point... I think of it as playing Burks, Hood, and Hayward at the same time. Sprinkle in some Ingles. Basically if the value of Burks being on the floor is greater than Burke et al... then run out the best players.

I don't worry about him guarding point guards he's pretty good on ball... may even help him be more effective. Off ball and help seems to be a bigger issue. Either way he won't be worse than Trey.
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I agree with all of this.
imo, burks is better at guarding point guards than shooting guards.
 
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