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Rudy Gobert pre-season

But the point is, Rudy has shown some offensive shots he's never had and his FT form is different. Jazz don't need Rudy to be a 20/10 guy. On offense, he just needs to keep opponents honest. If the opposing center drops off to double team, Rudy needs to be able to get the pass and score. And finish games...last year Wuin pulled him because he knew opponents were just going to put him on the FT line.
 
fishonjazz said:
So from what I can gather he is averaging 12.6 rebounds, 3.2 blocks, and 22.1 points per game per 36 while shooting 63% from the floor and 74.5% from the line.

Pretty fantastic albeit in a small sample size.
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74.5% from the line immediately takes away one of the few strategic options teams have against Rudy.

Big props to the big man for working on that part of his game.
 
silesian said:
I see your point, but maybe not. If Rudy is available for high efficiency buckets, he should still get touches at a high frequency. I believe Hayward becomes more of a facilitator now that he has weapons around him. And with more outside shooters, Rudy will be open more frequently and his usage will go up.
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I'm all for it. Hayward has to decrease his usage in order to really increase his offensive efficiency, which is subpar.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Didnt Trey Burke once have a good pre-season? As for bigs, Fesenko and even Araujo looked like they might develop into backups based on some preseason games.
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Yes people have looked good in preseason before that aren't good. He said all players, specifically bigs, are better in preseason.
 
Stifle Tower said:
But the point is, Rudy has shown some offensive shots he's never had and his FT form is different. Jazz don't need Rudy to be a 20/10 guy. On offense, he just needs to keep opponents honest. If the opposing center drops off to double team, Rudy needs to be able to get the pass and score. And finish games...last year Wuin pulled him because he knew opponents were just going to put him on the FT line.
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I agree with all this though. Being able to stay on the floor and not be a liability on offense is enough. Anything extra would be awesome.
 
I won't believe until I seem him play against a bigger 5. I saw what Bogut did to him in the olympics and it wasn't pretty. And he has always struggled against bigger opponents who push him around.


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fishonjazz said:
He looked as good as I have ever seen.
Does anyone know any way to find out his per 36 #'s from the pre-season?
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At least his play in the preseason is encouraging, this is always a positive. Now let's see what happens in the season. What would really make a difference would be if he could be consistent in his FT shooting, say around 70% that would make him more valuable in the end of games, make him more confident when attacking the rim and could easily help him reach that 14/15ppg mark that would really make a difference in forcing defenses to adjust.
 
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