Can the Shelvin Mack experiment please end?

[Beantown]

His defense is overrated.

He is slow.

Not a playmaker.

He can't shoot.

.....or make layups.


This season was doomed when Exum was hurt in the summer.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

I still recall that sinking feeling I had when the message about Exum hit my phone. Painful.

 

[gomretat]

Mack is costing us the playoffs. The record since his arrival speaks for itself.

 

[Beantown]

Mack is costing us the playoffs. The record since his arrival speaks for itself.

I think Snyder's mistake was starting him so quickly. He isn'tvery good and it crushed the confidence of Neto and Burke.

 

[nateboz]

I hear he went to McDonalds and ordered a box of McSucks

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

I hear he went to McDonalds and ordered a box of McSucks

Lol what the hell? I don't get the reference but this is nice without one.

 

[Sneakers]

I think Lindsey and Quin both really dropped the ball with this one. Season's teetered out of control ... sure the schedule got tougher, but its hard to ignore the record post trading for Mack. Lindsey gave Quin a shiny new toy at the trade deadline, and Quin was given freedom to play with it as much as he wanted. The results... well. We're ****ed.

 

[gomretat]

I think Snyder's mistake was starting him so quickly. He isn'tvery good and it crushed the confidence of Neto and Burke.

It has obviously hurt the chemistry and confidence of the team as a whole. We are giving up winnable games - games that we would have won in the pre-Mack days. I am a big QS fan but this is on him and makes no sense.

 

[prodigy]

you liiiiiied to mehhh

 

[Goodluckchuck]

This season was doomed when Exum was hurt in the summer.

And a lot of people here doubted his injury would affect the team... Where's the crow pie?

 

[Nate505]

He's been awful a few games no doubt, but honestly, which Jazz PG hasn't been awful this season.
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Perhaps Neto should get the most burn, but he's had plenty of dreadful games too. I think Burke should get more minutes than DNP-CDs, but he's no answer either.

 

[Stifle Tower]

It has obviously hurt the chemistry and confidence of the team as a whole. We are giving up winnable games - games that we would have won in the pre-Mack days. I am a big QS fan but this is on him and makes no sense.

Ummm no, these are NOT games the Jazz would have won. The Jazz were 19-25 before the winning streak, about where they are now at 29-34. So they've gone 10-9 over the last 19. It's the law of averages: take a look at the quality of opponents during that 7-game win streak, which included 5 home and 2 away. Charlotte and Chicago were the toughest teams they played at home; Dallas and Phoenix were the road games. That was an easy stretch and they had very tight games against Denver (4pt win), Milwaukee (3pt win) and at Dallas (2pt OT victory).

The schedule got tougher after that stretch. Really, the only big surprise is the loss at home to Brooklyn. Jazz picked up a great win at home against Boston, another close home win against Houston and a road victory against an inferior opponent (NO). Other than the aforementioned Brooklyn game, they've lost to opponents with better winning percentages. No real surprises. THIS is WHO UTAH IS!

As for that "shiny, new toy" Lindsey bought, it is anything but. Lindsey gave Quin a used, inferior hand-me-down. Dennis was intentionally CHEAP during the off-season and at the deadline. Where are all the sheep repeating, "don't skip steps?" This is what the majority of you WANTED: the supposed development of the youth. IT SUCKS and didn't have to be this way, but very few (and I have been one of them) ever had the balls to question the demigod, Dennis Lindsey.