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Jazz said:
Donovan at pg as well
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DM at PG is overhyped by too many. It’s great for his individual numbers but not for the teams offense overall. Not a negative on him either, he’s playing a position he hasn’t played a lot of time at, but the Don at PG isn’t as good as some want to make it. The team doesn’t rise with his numbers.
 
Whoa what the hell? I leave you people alone for 2 hours and this is what happens? Sonofabitch!
 
oneye said:
DM at PG is overhyped by too many. It’s great for his individual numbers but not for the teams offense overall. Not a negative on him either, he’s playing a position he hasn’t played a lot of time at, but the Don at PG isn’t as good as some want to make it. The team doesn’t rise with his numbers.
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I couldn't of said it any better myself. Except he plays hog ball as a pg
 
Donovan is not a point guard and that's a huge problem when we don't have one... and another reason why we lost was shooting 48 3 3pointers. We are 21st at that shooting like we're the GSW
 
Jazz said:
I couldn't of said it any better myself. Except he plays hog ball as a pg
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I don’t think this is right. Donovan just struggles making the right plays at times at PG and ends up having to make a quick decision because the shot clocks running down. He’s not being a “ball hog” but running point is a difficult position especially when you’re the only one who can ball handle period when Rubio and Exum are out. Donovan does his best but he already has a ton of offensive load on his shoulders and asking him to play point is just too much right now.
 
oneye said:
I don’t think this is right. Donovan just struggles making the right plays at times at PG and ends up having to make a quick decision because the shot clocks running down. He’s not being a “ball hog” but running point is a difficult position especially when you’re the only one who can ball handle period when Rubio and Exum are out. Donovan does his best but he already has a ton of offensive load on his shoulders and asking him to play point is just too much right now.
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Just let ingles run the pg. He's alot better at running the point than Donovan. Donovan is a scorer
 
oneye said:
I don’t think this is right. Donovan just struggles making the right plays at times at PG and ends up having to make a quick decision because the shot clocks running down. He’s not being a “ball hog” but running point is a difficult position especially when you’re the only one who can ball handle period when Rubio and Exum are out. Donovan does his best but he already has a ton of offensive load on his shoulders and asking him to play point is just too much right now.
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Yep, it seems a lot better from an eye test because the Jazz aren't forced to trot out awful 3pt shooters at PG like they usually do with Rubio/Exum, but the team offense in general suffers while Mitchell individually benefits from the extra spacing. Interestingly enough though, since January 1 (when Mitchell really started playing like a borderline all star again) Mitchell's TS% only increases by 1.1% with Rubio off the floor vs when Rubio is on (55.0 vs 53.9).

It's his usage which spikes the most (~7% increase), and Mitchell taking Rubio's shots combined with the ever so slight increase in efficiency is why people seem to think Mitchell at PG is the future right now when in reality the future is Mitchell at either guard spot with a backcourt partner who can space the floor for him, control primary playmaking duties, and have the size to take the bigger defensive guard assignments. When Rubio was on his hot streak towards the end of last season we got a glimpse of a PG who can do all three of those and that's the most dangerous the team has looked since Mitchell was drafted.
 
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