I was at the game last night. It was a very frustrating game. I can't quite put my finger on the regression, but it seemed like we shot a ton of jump shots, and they shot a ton of high percentage shots. Conley Zbo and Gasol ate us alive. We are reasonably healthy now, and it feels like we everybody is down 10% from their peak. It wasn't the reason for the loss, but the refs had 2 particularly bad stints. One in the second qtr, and another in the 4th. We got called for a 3 or 4 ricky tacky fouls, then it was not equal on the other end. In the 4th there was an out of bounds that was an obvious miss, then GH got fouled on a 3 that was not called. We played from behind the whole game and those calls didn't make the difference imo.
Alec was a great spark. There were times when he and Hill were the only ones who could get a basket. I did notice that Alec was in attack mode which was a blessing and a curse. He would take on the several players, but he usually converted. If I were to guess, his 3s were within the offense and a couple of the other attempts were pretty much head down iso. Some of these were what ended up being TOs. The frizz could see he wasn't going to pass and exploited. I was disappointed Hayward and Rudy didn't get more going offensively. Rudy shot a lot of FTs, but we really needed him to get a couple of dunks and easy ones inside that just weren't there. It made the Grizz able to tighten the perimeter coverage and keep us shooting mid range while the middle was shut down.
Snyder seemed to be in deep thought all game. I'm sure he is racking his brain right now for a solution.
The defense was pourous. They ran multiple screens and moved the ball well to put us in a scramble that led to a lot of easy buckets. Zbo and Gasol hit a lot of tough shots in iso situations, along with the Gasol 3s that kept Rudy at bay a bit. I believe they scored after every timeout. David Tizdale called one at every run the Jazz made, and these possessions seemed to end a most if not all of those runs. It was very demoralizing.