2015 training camp!

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http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3008408...d-bryce-cotton

That explains how Cotton went from being unlikely to make the Jazz's roster to practically being guaranteed a spot

With a non guaranteed deal I don't think he is guaranteed but I think he would he made it regardelss of the injury. Trey is the one who's job might have been saved.

[QUOTE], all because of Exum's injury in August. No matter how it turns out, Cotton's 2015-16 season will come with a disclaimer: Somebody got hurt in the making of this story.

Cotton could not have sounded any more sincere this week in wishing the circumstances were different and that his big break to stick in the NBA somewhat permanently would not have required a teammate's hardship. Yet after playing for the Austin Spurs of the NBA Development League as an undrafted player from Providence College, he knows how this stuff works.






"I always believed somehow, some way, I
would get to this level," Cotton said. "I couldn't tell you necessarily how I was going to do it, but I always believed."
His initial call came after the Jazz traded Enes Kanter and Steve Novak to Oklahoma City in February, creating roster vacancies that the team used to audition players via 10-day contracts. Cotton eventually signed with the Jazz for the rest of the season

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[QUOTE] Jody Genessy: [URL="http://*********.com/social/"]Tibor Pleiss worked with Jazz coach Alex Jensen this summer in Germany.

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Interesting switch. Hugh Greenwood, who played college ball at New Mexico and had a try out with the Jazz earlier in the year has quit basketball to play Aussie Rules Football and signed with Adelaide (where Joe Ingles and I are from).

http://afl.com.au/news/2015-09-04/fr...hugh-greenwood

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Yeah I saw that. He's played the sport before though. Guys I knew from Aussie has a team in Bei Jing.

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http://weareutahjazz.com/lockedonjaz...ng-camp-day-2/

[QUOTE]The Jazz defense looks strong

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...zz-season.html

As far as Jazz management is concerned they have added a player who averaged 14.0 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in his last full NBA season.

But unless he plays the one which sounds like a possibiity than they didn't full the spots they needed to.



[QUOTE]His name?


Alec Burks.


"Our best free agent is Alec Burks," general manager Dennis Lindsey said during the summer. "It's like he's a new addition . . . it's almost like he needs to be reintroduced to Quin (Snyder) and the coaches' system."
Burks, of course, has been with the team for four years after coming out of the University of Colorado after his sophomore season in 2011.


But last year, Burks played in just 27 games, a third of the team

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...nd-season.html

[QUOTE]Favors added that he didn

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http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3009943...-camp-goal-for

Jazz point guard Trey Burke said if there's anything he wishes to improve on from last season, it's shooting the ball with more consistency. He also wants to be more efficient, and take better shots. Doing so, he believes, will make him a better player, as he heads into his third season.

taking better shots, playing D and not being selfish. You got to go because I don't think it's in your mentality.

"Just consistency more than anything," Burke said. "I felt like there were games when I had efficient numbers. I feel like the more consistent I have those type of games, the better I'll be."



New nickname


In addressing the media, Hayward said the team has taken to calling rookie point guard Raul Neto "Wolf". It's a play on the pronunciation of Neto's first name (HOW-ell). Through the first part of camp, Neto's drawn good reviews for his ability to pass.

I'm sure he has. No doubt he is better than Trey.



Scrimmage time remains up in air

The Jazz are still trying to pinpoint a date for their annual preseason scrimmage, which is free for fans. They usually hold it within the first week of the start of camp, but this time they will be in Hawaii facing the Los Angeles Lakers starting on Sunday.



tjones@sltrib.com

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http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3010135...leiss-settling
[QUOTE]Pleiss will be a rookie this season, subject to the all the hazing and some of the struggles that come with that. But the 25-year-old already has a solid foundation of professional experience upon which to build. He started playing in Germany at age 17, before moving to Spain's top league. In 2010, he was second round pick (31st overall), but remained in Europe to further develop his game.


After the Jazz acquired his rights from Oklahoma City as part of the Enes Kanter trade, Pleiss decided now was the time to make the next step in his career, signing a three-year deal to come to Utah.


"It was always my dream to come to the United States and play in the NBA," he said. "That's one dream that came true."


Pleiss has a chance to stake his spot as the Jazz's backup center, providing a more offensive-minded big man off the bench to spell the defensive dynamo Rudy Gobert. He filled a similar reserve role last season with Barcelona, where he averaged 5.3 points and 3.8 rebounds a game in while backing up one-time Jazz draft pick Ante Tomic.


Pleiss has good size, though he must add strength to battle the centers of the NBA both offensively in the post and for rebounds, areas of his game that must improve. These are among the challenges he said he plans to embrace.


"That's why I'm here," Pleiss said. "I want to improve. I want to play with the best players and against the best players."


Pleiss' adjustment to the NBA should be made easier thanks to his relationship with Jazz assistant coach Alex Jensen, who helped coach the German national team this summer. Along the way, Jensen stopped to give Pleiss pointers about how to best tailor his game to the NBA and installed some plays that the Jazz run.


The new Jazzman reciprocated by teaching Jensen some German.
"I teached him some bad words," Pleiss

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https://jazzfanatical.wordpress.com/...interview-930/

[QUOTE]Both Quin Snyder and Dennis Lindsey have compared the Jazz to a running team in football, with a defensive front line that makes it somewhat of an anomaly in the NBA. Would you agree with that assessment?

Yeah, I would. I, you know, I really feel that the team is, and, what I

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...ng-lineup.html

Burke was suddenly thrust back into the projected Jazz starting lineup for the upcoming season.

projected by those not paying attention. Hard for me to see him in the rotation.

While Exum's devastating injury certainly presents Burke with a second chance to prove himself as a starter, Burke wasn't exactly doing cartwheels when he learned of his teammate's terrible misfortune.


Instead, his feelings were just the opposite.


"I was disappointed, obviously," Burke said as the Jazz began practice this week for the 2015-16 NBA campaign. "As an athlete, you never want to hear about anybody getting hurt. I mean, this is what we do for a living.
"It was obviously disappointing to all of us, seeing one of our teammates go down like that. We're with each other each and every day for about five months, so it's always bad to hear something like that."


Still, as agonizing as it seems, Exum's torn ACL and subsequent surgery ends his 2015-16 season before it's started.


And Burke fully realizes he must step his game up and try to provide vital leadership for a young but improving Utah team that appears on the precipice of making major strides forward in the months ahead.


"With Dante being out, I'm obviously going to have to play more minutes,"

He won't be playing if Snyder is as smart as he's supposed to be

[QUOTE]he said of his evolving point guard role, in which he'll now be sharing playing time with second-year guard Bryce Cotton and rookie Raul Neto

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...ds-gamers.html
[QUOTE]That said, Snyder vehemently denied an ESPN report that claimed the coaching staff has lost trust in Millsap and that the second-year NBA player is now considered a longshot to make the Jazz

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http://www.deseretnews.com/top/3417/...-the-list.html

To anyone watching Maxi G can't be ahead of Rudy.

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http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3015470...yder-trying-to

In a way, this is why veteran teams thrive in the NBA, while younger teams struggle.

One part of it. Having guys that don't belong on the floor like Exum and Burke is a huge part of it though.


[QUOTE]It's a huge advantage to have a team familiar with the system and ready to hit training camp running. Last year, Snyder had to implement a new concept to one of the youngest teams in the league, and the Jazz started 6-19.


But as Snyder's team began to get used to the new offense and defense and everything between, Utah finished by winning 19 of its final 29.
Even with most of its core group returning, Utah's coaching staff has to introduce several new guys

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http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3015880...rown-up-gordon

Utah's best player has looked like exactly that.

The national writers are one thing but the beat writers rally think he is their best player? They sucked before Rudy made them someone.
[QUOTE]"Gordon's been playing really well," Snyder said when asked to single out his top performer. "He's just been assertive. They may laugh at this, but I look at guys standing out in drills and he's just been focused."


Since he was drafted in the first round out of Butler in 2010, the Jazz have watched him grow from a scrawny rookie coming off the bench, to starter, to borderline All-Star.


Last season, he wrote on his website that he was better than LeBron James