The Garbage Time vs. No Playing Time Conundrum Edition - The Downbeat - # 682

I noted one of the announcers saying something about “Jamming the tight end” during the Super Bowl. Just thought I’d share.

yes we need to make it easier in our offense for guys to make threes. I wonder if they even have plays for threes or if its still like when Horny was a player an him an John just had to wing it or D-Will and Korver/Memo the same thing. If that is the case it makes complete sense that we are dead last in 3 point percentage, we don’t have any guys that can just wing it like John and Deron to set up plays. We have Harris who’s move is to run into the paint, an we have Watson (who I love) who is good at setting up our offense but besides his alley-oop passes (which I love) doesn’t ever really wing it.
I don’t want to be a Warrior team but like our buddy Earl said there needs to be that balance.

My impression of Burks is that he plays kind of out of control for the first couple minutes he gets in, then calms down and starts doing a lot better.

I’d so love to see him getting 20 minutes a night right now.

1-We are better as a team offensively if we have a “maker” from the outside as it opens up the paint (see John Stockton, Jeff Hornacek, Memo Okur, Kyle Korver, Deron Williams, etc). I’ve heard complaints about how Howard and CJ are ball hogs and just drive/take shots every time they touch the ball; I agree, but this is a coaching thing – I guarantee that they wouldn’t be doing what they are doing if the coaches didn’t want them to (i.e. I’m pretty sure the coaches are asking them to be aggressive every chance they get; just wish they would mix in a little basketball IQ). Now for some euphemisms: you can’t be one dimensional in this league; each night you need to find a way to win.
2-Disappointing. Corbin knows he needs to get Alec minutes and isn’t finding a way to do it.
3-Jeremy needs to dunk.
4-Malone made his first all star game in 1988 (he averaged 27 points per game that year he was drafted in 1985); Stockton made his first all star game in 1989 (he averaged 17.1 pts on .538 shooting and 13.6 assists that year; he was drafted in 1984); so yes, they were doing some pretty amazing things, but they also had been in the league a few years before going too; I’m pretty sure if we had players putting up those type of stats, they’d get some all-star burn

I also really like how Stockton hit Hornacek for a layup in the 1992 game. I also liked the years when the All stars wore their own uniforms. I like that a lot better than some of the ugly uniforms they have come up with for All Star weekend.

1. If you rebound significantly better than the other team, you will have more shots to take. So that’s another way of scoring more points rather than shooting 3s. If our team has lots of “bigs” than it follows that we ought to be rebounding significantly better than our opponents. If we aren’t, then our coaches need to address that in a significant way. If you aren’t going to shoot a lot of 3s, then you need to get a lot more rebounds to make up the difference. You have to be strong at one or the other.

2. @Ty – you haven’t had a chance to find minutes for him? What, are you busy doing something else?

3. Not unlike the dialogue in Of Mice and Men. (That reference is for you, Yucca Man!)

4. holy crap – what if Karl Malone had played his career with Magic Johnson? (I will now answer my own question.) More oops and fast break dunks, fewer pick and roll points.

So Karl Malone was basically Blake Griffin 20 years ago, right? Will Blake Griffin work as hard as Malone to develop a 20 foot game? (I hope so.)

5. David James quote killed me. I’m an English teacher. I can find a euphemism no matter how deeply it’s buried in a hole. So nice when James gives it up so easily.

1. — Mo Almond only got garbage time and he was the most talented guy on the floor then (on offense) and thus felt the need to shoot it all the time. And he did. And when he played in the NBA-DL that was the same situation. He never learned to Jazz offense, and never got the mentality to play with guys as a Jazz team mate. It was always team Mobe. And those bad habits were only encouraged by when we played him. And then he was useless to us.

What are we doing with Burks? When he plays mins in the first half (2nd quarter) and plays with a mix of guys (some starters some not) he works way better. When you put him in garbage time he may feel pressured to score — but that’s what scorers want to do. He got to the league by slashing and getting to the line. It is against his nature to try to do otherwise when pressured.

ONe thing we can agree on is that, right now, the Jazz haven’t played him as much as we hoped he would have played by now.

1. — Look at how hard Karl runs during an exhibition game? Damn. If Enes or Favors ever do that they’ll get a lot of points.

It’s the final piece this team needs to be a playoff team. When you are a top 5 team in points in the paint without an outside threat that says a lot about what this team is capable of. You give the big some spacing to operate down low they can score more efficiently without having to deal with a packed paint. It would also solve the problem for the second unit when they need to break a zone down.

having guys out there who are THREATS to MAKE threes on the floor means the other team has to respect your floor spacing.

But whatever, we’ll probably trade any three point shooting guy we have to the nets for a trade exemption that’ll expire in 2 years. KOC = genius.

it amazed me at how good karl malone was in fast breaks, every time there was one he was already down the court before stockton at a full sprint, and really how many one on one defenders coulds stop that freight train