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Father and sons night -- Hawks @ Jazz 3/20/2018 7:00 pm MST

What a depressing suck *** loss. Oh well, I guess this happens to all NBA teams. Hopefully they can win one of the San Antonio/GS games to make up for it.
 
Jazz couldn't shoot for ****, and have to say that a lot of that was on Mitchell tonight. Crowder could have barreled to the rim and gotten points.
 
*obligatory Mitchell praise* but ****er has got to reel it on on the threes. At least until he, you know, starts making them again.
 
The most concerning issue tonight for me was the fact the Hawks made the Jazz uncomfortable. The Jazz didn’t just give this game away or have a hiccup the Hawks beat them....again. The reason it’s concerning is this is exactly what will happen in a playoff series. Ingles and Donovan were not comfortable all night, and Rudy was working extra hard tonight. We got Donovan and Rudy, but this team may not be as good as we think once a team clamps down on and specifies a game plan for them.

I don’t know, it’s concerning when this wasn’t just a slip up, this was a bad team making you uncomfortable all night and just beating you. It happens I guess, but it didn’t feel good.

Lastly, our bench has got to produce something. Crowder is the most consistent but man how many out of control layups is Royce gonna bang to hard off the backboard? I admire his defense but some of those layups he’s missing every single game are because he’s rushing in too hard and fast and just missing an easy shot. I really like Royce but calm down kid and have some confidence when you take a 3 and be under control putting it off the glass. There were so many bad things about this game but the bench has to score more, every night. Who cares who it is but one guy off that bench should be able to muster up a decent night. There’s enough talent in those guys to come up with a decent amount of bench points every night and they’ve just been laying eggs.

Oh and PS- we found out what value Favs has. A healthy Favors is a force to be reckoned with and he is a difference maker. I was missing him under that hoop tonight tearing down offensive rebounds (lord knows there were enough of them tonight) and going up strong and slamming it down. I think we all love Favs and what he’s done this season.....I’m not sure we fully understand how good he actually is and how much of an impact he has.
 
I actually think going on the road against an eh team could help right now and yeah the pressure not keeping the streak aliv
NUMBERICA said:
*obligatory Mitchell praise* but ****er has got to reel it on on the threes. At least until he, you know, starts making them again.
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This, other than tonight he's been money getting to the rim and scoring. He was 1/8 from 3 against SAC but ended up 11/21 from the field. I get he's got to take some, but when he's this off attack the rim and get easy buckets which he's great at.
 
dipship31 said:
I actually think going on the road against an eh team could help right now and yeah the pressure not keeping the streak aliv


This, other than tonight he's been money getting to the rim and scoring. He was 1/8 from 3 against SAC but ended up 11/21 from the field. I get he's got to take some, but when he's this off attack the rim and get easy buckets which he's great at.
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You can’t just drive every time. You either run out of the energy to do so or you stop getting calls because the ref isn’t going to blow the whistle every time. Someone like Lebron could drive and score or get fouled on every single trip down the floor but it’s easier said than done. Donovan took 28 shots tonight and 10 were 3s, meaning 18 were not. He drove pretty often, he also isn’t getting a call sometimes and isn’t going to for the most part as a rookie.

At this point I think it’s messing with him a bit. He knows that 3 isn’t falling and you can see him hesitate or hard pump fake on a lot of shots right now, which just makes it worse. He isn’t confidently taking those shots. I mean this is the modern NBA though, 3s matter too much not to take them....so if not him who’s he passing to? Ingles passes up shots and isn’t going to put up a bunch more...and nobody else is exactly solid from 3. He HAS to take those shots. I simply hope that all the people he sees calling him a chucker, and knowing the shot isn’t falling doesn’t get inside his head enough to continue what we saw tonight. He wasn’t shooting confidently, and wasn’t really wanting to take some of the shots he took from 3.

“”Just drive” sounds easy until the ref won’t blow his whistle or after doing it 3 or 4 times you’re exhausted. Like I said if it was so easy a guy like Lebron could do it every play all game long, it’s not that easy, and it’s even harder when you’re 6’3”.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Did the offense look that bad or did the Jazz just miss wide open shots?

I mean, it certainly didnt look good, but the Jazz just missed a lot of relatively easy looks.
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They just missed shots. They had some really good looks, near the end of the game in particular, that typically go in. Tonight they just didn't. We shot 37% from the field. Anytime you shoot that poorly the offense is going to seem terrible. Even if you're running the sets and getting good looks.
 
oneye said:
You can’t just drive every time. You either run out of the energy to do so or you stop getting calls because the ref isn’t going to blow the whistle every time. Someone like Lebron could drive and score or get fouled on every single trip down the floor but it’s easier said than done. Donovan took 28 shots tonight and 10 were 3s, meaning 18 were not. He drove pretty often, he also isn’t getting a call sometimes and isn’t going to for the most part as a rookie.

At this point I think it’s messing with him a bit. He knows that 3 isn’t falling and you can see him hesitate or hard pump fake on a lot of shots right now, which just makes it worse. He isn’t confidently taking those shots. I mean this is the modern NBA though, 3s matter too much not to take them....so if not him who’s he passing to? Ingles passes up shots and isn’t going to put up a bunch more...and nobody else is exactly solid from 3. He HAS to take those shots. I simply hope that all the people he sees calling him a chucker, and knowing the shot isn’t falling doesn’t get inside his head enough to continue what we saw tonight. He wasn’t shooting confidently, and wasn’t really wanting to take some of the shots he took from 3.

“”Just drive” sounds easy until the ref won’t blow his whistle or after doing it 3 or 4 times you’re exhausted. Like I said if it was so easy a guy like Lebron could do it every play all game long, it’s not that easy, and it’s even harder when you’re 6’3”.
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Felt like he looked for his own shot a helluva lot tonight. Probably told to do it though eh. I just thought it was a bit predictable - couldn't get opponents off balance like before.
 
Donovan can take all the catch and shoot 3's he wants, but yeah the off the dribble stuff earlier in the shot clock peel it back a bit.
 
Ingles had a brutal game. Just seemed a step slow, and couldnt hit any 3s.

Tough tough loss obviously. Everyone was out of sync. Somehow Atlanta just matches us really well with us too.
And my boi Dennis is the real deal. There were clowns here that tried to say he wasn't an NBA player. He owned us.

We knew our young guys would have some hiccups on the way. This was a big one. Let's see how we recover.
 
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