2014-2015 regular season!

[QUOTE]Jason Jones: Michael Malone: "I was happy to see Nik Stauksas become a man in the NBA tonight." Twitter @mr_jasonjones [/QUOTE]

Against the Jazz D! :rolleyes:

[QUOTE]Utah continues to hemorrhage points at an alarming rate, still 29th in the league and barely ahead of a Lakers team that

[QUOTE]I looked at the last three decades of Utah Jazz starting shooting guards (31, if you include this year); and broke down all the data. At the end of the day you want a player who is reliable enough and healthy enough to get in almost every game, and in those games be someone the defense has to worry about. Comparing Alec to the 1984-2015 data set of Jazz shooting guard history some obvious pieces of evidence come to light, and hopefully this analysis can further the discussion we

[QUOTE]2. Scoring:

When your position title is

[QUOTE]Well, while Alec does pass more than the average the issue here is his turn overs as a starter. His assist to turn over ratio is only 1.35 to 1.00, which is below the ratios for the full data set, the post-Hornacek years, and the five seasons directly before him. This hurts in him other ways as well, because a turnover HE creates probably ends up being a transition scoring attempt for the other team. (My guess is a turn over for a guard is either on the perimeter (inside of it) or on a drive or pass; a bigman

[QUOTE]Wow. I talked so much about GO Rating is there even space for BARPS? Alec is above 20, which is above every variable group. The guys who have gone for above 20 are Griffith (x1), Malone (x4), Hornacek (x5), Ronnie B (x1), G-Time (x1) and Alec. The guys who went for 25+ are just Griffith (x1), Malone (x1), Hornacek (x1), and Hayward (x1). Part of this is being on the court a lot, and being a big part of what your team does on the court. The average BARPS / min is 0.66, which removes the big fishes who play a lot of time from looking better than they actually are. In this respect Alec is at 0.65 this season. The five seasons before him the value of BARPS / min was 0.59, so he

[QUOTE]Part of that is shot select and offensive play type (he scores more points than almost anyone else on this list as a product of his one on one game, not on curls, or cuts, or spot ups, or whatever). That doesn

[QUOTE]So Gordon Hayward is good, much better than Alec Burks[/QUOTE]

Not last year.

[QUOTE]-- but Burks isn't that bad when you look at what's happened since Jeff Hornacek retired. He isn't nearly as efficient as Ronnie Brewer, or as competent as Matt Harpring used to be -- but he appears to be better than Wesley Matthews, Raja Bell, and Randy Foye . . . which counts, right? Maybe?

Utah Jazz Roster (2014-2015)

Utah Jazz 2014 2015 GO Rating - December 8 2014

Just to make sure you know, GO Rating isn't boosted or hurt by minutes played, it naturalizes everyone to playing 33.6 mpg. The starters are okay, only Gordon Hayward is killing it. Derrick Favors is very good as a second option, but would be better as a third option. Trey Burke and Enes Kanter are productive enough to be starters, but Alec Burks isn't nearly as good as he should be -- or as good as he was last season (57 GO Rating).[/QUOTE]

I can tell you right now your rating sucks. Trey gives up a lot more at the other end than he gets at his end. Kanter I see continual improvement. Burke is getting worse seemingly.

[QUOTE]But the bench, Ye Gods! Dante Exum and Rodney Hood are real rookies, Joe Ingles is a rookie in name -- but all three of them are not hurting the defense that much so far this season. Trevor Booker and Rudy Gobert aren't dangerous at all by themselves, but at least have some bite.[/QUOTE]

Get off your ****in' computer and watch a game. Rudy is a game changer. Play him! Jazz are a better team with him but obviously the Jazz don't care or Millsap, Carroll, Matthews, etc. would still be around.

[QUOTE]Toure' Murry hasn't played this year. Ian Clark and Steve Novak have, but haven't done much. We know Clark can drive and miss floaters, and Novak can hit open threes --- in the smallest of sample sizes. Also, there is no evidence that Jeremy Evans exists. #XFilesThemeSong

This is fun and easy to do, so if you want more quick stories hit me up.[/QUOTE]

Thought that Sac game was there to take with Boogie out. Ah well.

[QUOTE]Kanter was called for a traveling violation and the Jazz big man responded by spiking the ball to the ground and then throwing his mouthpiece into the crowd.[/QUOTE]

no excuse for that. That's disgusting.

[QUOTE]"It was the intensity, man. You know what I mean?" said Kanter, who scored 13 points and had six rebounds in the 101-92 loss. "We

[QUOTE]Quin Snyder has insisted the goal is something larger than any one game or maybe even one season.[/QUOTE]

The goal isn't to compete. One look at their off-season made that quite evident.

[QUOTE]"The picture for us is a big picture," the Jazz head coach said before Monday

[QUOTE]"I thought he did a hell of a job his four years as a Jazz head coach" Malone said. "He

[QUOTE]How much harder is it to get a shot off in the NBA?

Stauskas: "It

[QUOTE]New coach Quin Snyder isn

The Brooklyn Nets are working to finalize a deal to unload Andrei Kirilenko onto the Philadelphia 76ers, sparing the franchise nearly $12 million in salary and luxury tax, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Yahoo! Sports

Kirilenko, 33, is in the final year of a $3.3 million contract and would be waived in Philadelphia should the deal be completed, sources said. Kirilenko would become a free agent, but it could still be several weeks