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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    Point guard, unquestionably, is the most difficult position for a rookie to learn. So patience has been high with Burke.

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    [QUOTE]Bad night for the Jazz. Bad match-up for the Jazz. Minnesota and Cleveland are similar they are bad fast break defensive teams, who don

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    The Jazz have increased their 3-point shooting, but (as the graph below shows) they have not increased their accuracy. However, even with this drop in shooting percentage, the Jazz are still getting the same amount of points per shot from 2s and 3s. The Jazz are receiving .99 points per shot on 3-pointers and .99 points per shot off their 49.7% 2-pointer shooting.

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    [QUOTE]Myers, the attempted superhero achieving the physically impossible, went around the league. He called (or text messaged) each team

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    Jazz forward Jeremy Evans sprained his left ankle during the team

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    [QUOTE]Burke wasn

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    [QUOTE]This was as good a game as I can recall this year. It was carried by our 5 youngsters for most of the night. All of them showed what they are capable of doing in this league and all of them made significant errors against a great team and when you do that you pay for it. That is why I loved this game. The kids showed what they can do and at the same time their weaknesses got exposed. Milwaukee can

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    Enes Kanter can score

    With his footwork inside and the soft touch on his mid-range jumper, the third-year center from Turkey’s offense is rarely the subject of post-game criticism.
    His lack of passing out of double teams has been.

    His defense? That’s another story.

    But on Sunday night, Kanter’s play against Roy Hibbert, David West and Ian Mahinmi earned praised from his coach and teammates.

    "He was really paying attention to details and I thought he got a lot better tonight," Jazz coach Ty Corbin said.

    Kanter and Derrick Favors combined to hold Hibbert to just 2 points on 1-of-9 shooting.

    "He did a great job," Jazz forward Marvin Williams said. "Enes is a big physical guy. Obviously with West and Hibbert out there, that matchup is not really the best for myself and Jeremy [Evans]. Enes was great. He was locked in from the start of shootaround today and it showed."

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    Brandon Rush started his NBA career in Indiana, where he averaged 9 points and 3.5 rebounds and shot 40 percent from 3 over three seasons as a Pacer.

    Rush is averaging career lows in points, rebounds and shooting percentage.

    Sunday marked the third time in four games he did not play.

    So how can he get back to his pre-injury form?

    "Just keep getting his confidence and keep working," Corbin said. "He had a tough injury. He took a lot of time off. He

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    [QUOTE]Ante Tomic has been named Euroleague MVP for the second straight week.

    The All-Euroleague center set three new career highs in leading FC Barcelona to a thrilling 84-89 overtime win in Istanbul over Anadolu Efes in Top 16 Round 8.

    Tomic scored a career-best 26 points, making 11 of his 16 two-point attempts. Tomic also had 15 rebounds, another career high, while providing three assists and drawing 7 fouls, which added up to a performance index rating of 40

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    [QUOTE]"Ah, man," said Jazz forward Marvin Williams, who watched the final shot from the bench. "He couldn

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    The Utah Jazz lost a 94-91 nail-biter to the NBA-leading Indiana Pacers Sunday night, but it was the distribution of playing time that was the real story. For just the second time all season, all five of the “Foundation Five” young players for the Jazz played at least 30 minutes in the same game.

    Against Indiana, they even finished the game on the court together in the latter part of the fourth quarter, another extreme rarity.

    It was also just the third time since Nov. 21 that Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors both played at least 30 minutes in the same game.

    Before any Jazz fans get too excited and start thinking that maybe Jazz leadership was finally beaten with a rational stick, however, there’s evidence that suggests this sudden coherent minute distribution by the coaching staff was merely a misguided attempt to play “matchup basketball,” rather than a true light-bulb moment.

    I say that because one of the other two times since Nov. 21 that Kanter and Favors both played at least 30 minutes in the same game was also against Indiana.

    The minute distribution for the Jazz this season has largely defied reason.

    If you are the Jazz, how do you possibly justify giving Richard Jefferson, an old veteran offseason afterthought acquisition who basically already said he doesn’t want to play for the Jazz next season and who Sports Illustrated named to its “All-Atrocious” team, more minutes than Kanter this season, a player you invested a No. 3 overall draft pick on?

    Even if you want to make a highly debatable argument that Jefferson has been more effective than Kanter on the court this season (Kanter has a much better player efficiency rating than Jefferson), it doesn’t matter anyway because that argument is invalid since winning doesn’t benefit the Jazz this season.
    It doesn't benefit them because they went into the season looking to lose. But as we've seen they can play with the best teams in the league on any given night. Sad that people think losing is a good thing in any form. All their young players have benefited from being on a competitive team. The reason they've been able to compete this year is because they have been in the rotation(sometimes anyway in Burks case and occasionally in Evans') on competitive teams the past 2 to 3 years. Giving a young guys minutes just because isn't always a good thing. Make them earn their minutes. They will continue to work. Would Enes be better if he'd been playing 40 minutes a game the past two years or learning from Al?

    Among Jazz players that have played in at least 40 games and averaged at least 15 minutes per game, Jefferson has the worst player efficiency rating on the team, yet he averages 27 minutes per game – the same as Alec Burks, and more than Kanter, Jeremy Evans and Marvin Williams, all of whom have significantly outperformed Jefferson on the court.

    Jefferson’s player efficiency (12.0) is actually a lot closer to Rudy Gobert’s (11.0), the rookie the Jazz sent down to the D-League, than it is to Williams’ (15.1), Kanter’s (15.5), Burks’ (15.6) or Evans’ (18.2).

    Not only have the Jazz invested their minutes poorly this season, but they are also now barely hanging on to a top-10 pick in the upcoming draft. That’s called mismanaging your assets on multiple levels.
    I'd say they misjudged how good they'd be. A veteran pg to teach Burke the ropes(not a 3rd stringer like Lucas) and they might be looking at the playoffs(not to mention Millsap and Demarre). Considering how young they are that would bode well for the future with or without the high lottery pick.

    Washington is a great example of what a difference vets make. They were a mess until they mixed some vets in with the youngsters.
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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    Ante Tomic has been named Euroleague MVP for the month of February.

    Tomic averaged 22.0 points, 9.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists in 29.5 minutes over three February games for Barcelona.

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    [QUOTE]So here it was a test. A non-sexy team on the back end of a back-to-back after a tough, physical game against the team with the best record in the NBA. Have you learned how to prepare? Have you learned how to fight through the mental fatigue? Have you found a way to get your mind and body connection going on a

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    Chinese Basketball Association named Lester Hudson as MVP of the 2013/2014 season. He had a terrific year with Xinjiang Flying Tigers averaging 26 points, 7.7 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game. Sportando
    I thought he could have helped the Jazz especially at the beginning of the year when Burke was out. He made more sense than Tinsley with his ability to shoot and defend.

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