Game Thread PRESEASON GAME# 3: JAZZ @ BLAZERS - OCTOBER 7, 2018 - SUNDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), NBATV & NBCSNW

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What will be Donovan Mitchell's main position for his career in the NBA?

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  1. Point Guard

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  2. Shooting Guard

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  1. Scalma

    Scalma Well-Known Member

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    Stotts mentioned that’ll be an emphasis this season. We’ll see. I personally love playing through him. I know he gets super aggressive with his passes at times but that just comes with the territory. Even Gasol, the best passing big in the league, turned the ball over nearly three times a game last year.
     
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    You're missing the point.

    Stauskas isn't a playmaker either... Currys a better playmaker than he is...
     
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    Nurkic 3 point Goat
     
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    No he’s not. He has three assists in three games and has never been known as a big playmaker, not even in college. He’s CJ lite.
     
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    Seth Curry Career AST% - 15.7
    Nik Stauskas Career AST% - 11.7

    Seth Curry Career TOV% - 11.3
    Nik Stauskas Career TOV% - 13.9

    Next.
     
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    Went to the game tonight - should've left after 3 like I originally intended. Starters looked good - loved Nurk's effort, and the guards were great as always. Looks like another year of us needing to survive the second unit. The group in there for the last five minutes, well, that was excruciating. Swanigan played awful and looked completely disinterested. He's never going to develop.
     
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    Seth has had the ball in his hands more.

    Next.
     
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    Yeah I think of Swanigan what I thought of Meyers. Hopefully Neil can cut him next summer and avoid stuffimg $40 million into some irrational hope he improves.
     
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    The victim makes it so much better.
     
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    Yet he finds a way to turn it over more... He has more turnovers than assists... hardly the mark of a "playmaker".

    There's also a bigger difference between their ast% than usage rate. You might be able to make a valid argument as to Stauskas being the same level playmaker as Curry, but nothing suggests he's better.
     
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    Its preseason so undoubtedly the coaches have instructed guys to do certain things and that will skew things, but neither one to me looks like a playmaker (in terms of passing at least).

    For their career numbers I dont really know what to make of them, neither player has found themselves on a good team with playoff aspirations really. I think its much easier to get assists on good teams with few weak links on offense than it when you just dont have very many offensive weapons...
     
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    I have never and will never leave a game before the final buzzer. But yeah, that 4th quarter was brutal.

    Zach Collins is what worries me the most, though. Yikes.
     
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    Exactly. Playmaking isn't reasoning that makes sense if your trying to argue that Stauskas should play as much as Curry, because Curry is better at every other aspect of the game.
     
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    ....what was wrong with Zach tonight....?
     
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    Zach Collins is not good. He’s a late 1st rounder type of player. If that. I can’t believe he went 10th yikes
     
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    Question for english lesson: is i didn't see that coming or i didn't saw that coming correct? :D
     
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    I didnt see that coming is the correct usage.
     
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    The official site said our starters looked good in the loss.. I saw the game on TV and they did look fresh. In the future games, we need a bench that can equal and exceed deficits. Pre season has purpose. giphy5CLJLMKFcookin.gif
     
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    Thank you
     
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