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What Resolves First?

  • Collin Sexton's Restricted Free Agency

    Votes: 19 38.8%
  • Baker Mayfield's Tenure with the Browns

    Votes: 30 61.2%

  • Total voters
    49
  • Poll closed .
There are still some times where he just doesn’t see the open man, but he is definitely getting better at passing the ball. Also nice to see his 3 point shot hitting consistently, he’s shooting 48% from 3 since the start of the new year.
Maybe so But if ihad to pick between sexton and garland im picking sexton right now
 
Definitely silver lining of the last two games is hes starting to make the easy passes.

On the negative side he's getting absolutely torched almost nightly on defense.

Which just puts a ceiling on this team with a backcourt this small. Forget good, a backcourt of Garland and Sexton will never be average defensively.
 
It was funny, the other night I saw the highlight of De'Aaron Fox's dunk and thought to myself.... "Collin could do that if he tried."
The next night, Collin does pretty much his own version of that dunk.


The defense, though...
 
Definitely silver lining of the last two games is hes starting to make the easy passes.

On the negative side he's getting absolutely torched almost nightly on defense.

Which just puts a ceiling on this team with a backcourt this small. Forget good, a backcourt of Garland and Sexton will never be average defensively.

For them to work on defense, Beilein will have to be good about making in game adjustments. If they both keep developing and end up 30+ minute player long term, they will have to share the backcourt together regardless if both are starting or not. It will be more about Beilein or whoever the HC is, being able to adjust on the fly to figure out when he can deploy both Sexton and Garland together so they aren't a complete liability on defense.

I think ultimately one will have to be like Kevin Love was during the LeBron years and have to sit or only come in on offense during crunch time. I think that's why they get turns trying to close out games. I don't think it will be about who starts or not but who closes out games.
 
Definitely silver lining of the last two games is hes starting to make the easy passes.

On the negative side he's getting absolutely torched almost nightly on defense.

Which just puts a ceiling on this team with a backcourt this small. Forget good, a backcourt of Garland and Sexton will never be average defensively.
Beilein and the cavs FO is doing Sexton a disservice expecting him to guard 2 guards in this league. Its impossible at his size to even do a decent job
when you are such a mismatch every night. He's getting beat up by bigger players every night. He is a real warrior to keep coming for it every night like he does and it hasn't impacted his offensive game. I agree with you 100% they should either start Sexton at point (which I would be all for trying at this point) or bring him off the bench. Its really hard to watch. That Sexton/Garland back court is never working long term...maybe 10 minutes or so a game depending on match ups but that's it.
 
Who exactly is Colin supposed to be passing the ball to? I think he moves too fast and should move without the ball more, but let's be clear, there's no one else on this team who can put the ball in the hole consistently.
 
Passing generates easy offense and gets teammates more involved and more likely to be successful.

There are too many possessions where its literally just sexton dribbling around for fifteen seconds and shooting
 
Passing generates easy offense and gets teammates more involved and more likely to be successful.

There are too many possessions where its literally just sexton dribbling around for fifteen seconds and shooting

This is true but guys can't shut him or Garland out of the offense just because they aren't moving the ball. Love, Nance, and Cedi seem to shut both of them out yesterday. Sexton at least gets the defense to collapse in and when teams know he isn't going to get the ball, its alot easier to defend this team. As much as Nance put up a good box score, him trying to run the offense didn't help last night and had the same results as last year.

Sexton scores 10 points in the first quarter yesterday and after Love got pissed, he seem to make poorer decisions and didn't get the ball as much. In the 3rd quarter I felt he was pressing and made some poor passes because he was trying to appease his teammates too much.

I think right now Garland and Sexton have too much of a load to carry because Exum hasn't taken up much of slack that Clarkson left. Exum isn't a lock down defender that Beilein can just put on the opposing team's best guard for 30 minutes a game and his offensive game isn't there for him to just be a good two way player. The healthy wings and bigs showed last night they can't carry that extra load either. The flaws of Sexton and Garland are just getting magnified by the extra minutes and scoring they need to generate.
 
Small sample size, but last five games he's averaging 23.6 ppg, 5.5 rpg, and 4.75 apg on .478/.481/1.000 shooting. That's a valuable 21 year-old player IMO.

Definitely valuable and I think he can be more than a 6th man if his passing keeps developing. The flaw with Garland and Sexton on defense is being magnified by the extra minutes and lack of a complimentary #3 guard to pick up the defense. I think Sexton and Garland should ultimately play 30-32 minutes each and we have a bigger #3 guard playing 30-32 minutes. Im hoping Exum can develop into that #3 guard so KPJ can stay at SF and won't be asked to guard PGs. We saw how much that wore down JR and Shump, and I hope they don't do the same thing to KPJ.
 
Definitely valuable and I think he can be more than a 6th man if his passing keeps developing. The flaw with Garland and Sexton on defense is being magnified by the extra minutes and lack of a complimentary #3 guard to pick up the defense. I think Sexton and Garland should ultimately play 30-32 minutes each and we have a bigger #3 guard playing 30-32 minutes. Im hoping Exum can develop into that #3 guard so KPJ can stay at SF and won't be asked to guard PGs. We saw how much that wore down JR and Shump, and I hope they don't do the same thing to KPJ.
I'm not optimistic Exum will ever be a starter on this team. Drafted as high as he was Utah gave him every opportunity before cutting the cord. I'm more inclined to have Garland and Porter start at guard with either Cedi or Windler at small forward, whichever develops into the better player.

By the way, the Jazz are 14-1 since trading for Clarkson. They are now in second place in the West, 3.5 games behind the Lakers, and closing in.
 
I'm not optimistic Exum will ever be a starter on this team. Drafted as high as he was Utah gave him every opportunity before cutting the cord. I'm more inclined to have Garland and Porter start at guard with either Cedi or Windler at small forward, whichever develops into the better player.

By the way, the Jazz are 14-1 since trading for Clarkson.

I don't think he needs to be a starter, just good enough that you can separate Sexton and Garland for the majority of their minutes. I think Sexton and hopefully Garland will be good enough that they won't want to demote either to the bench so one will just assume the role of sixth man and backup PG while being a starter in name.

I personally think it's going to be hard to acquire enough talent that you can risk demoting Sexton or Garland to the bench and gamble retaining them long term. I'd rather see KPJ take Cedi's starter spot if he develops to that level and send Cedi to the bench. I'm also hoping they can get a bigger wing or a center in the draft.
 
I don't think he needs to be a starter, just good enough that you can separate Sexton and Garland for the majority of their minutes. I think Sexton and hopefully Garland will be good enough that they won't want to demote either to the bench so one will just assume the role of sixth man and backup PG while being a starter in name.

I personally think it's going to be hard to acquire enough talent that you can risk demoting Sexton or Garland to the bench and gamble retaining them long term. I'd rather see KPJ take Cedi's starter spot if he develops to that level and send Cedi to the bench. I'm also hoping they can get a bigger wing or a center in the draft.
Who they are able to get in the draft will have a lot to say about their direction going forward. The only thing I'm sure of is they won't draft another point guard.
 
Unfortunate that this dude is so unfamiliar with passing the ball off to open teammates that he often turns it over when actually attempting to do so.
 

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