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GAME 1: Little Ricky's journey to the playoffs -- Jazz @ Thunder 4/15/18 4:30 pm MST

Ellis269 said:
Also. . . Donovan got a double double tonight. His role on the team limits his rebounds and assists opportunities. He played really well for a rookie to go for 27/10/3 in his first playoff game with how much focus OKC gave him.

It may not be this year, but tonight bodes well for Mitchell going forward.
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Using Ron Mexico's logic, most of them were uncontested rebounds and his double double was just hollow stat because the jazz lost the match.

Also many said that mitchell is a clutch player and he wins match for the jazz in the 4th quarter. Well, he disappeared and was non existent in the 4th quarter of this match.
 
I don’t care what anyone says this season was very successful for us Jazz fans the western conference is loaded and we still landed a #5 seed! I really think Donovan can lead us to the Promise land one day
 
Game 1 lost, overreaction guaranteed: Ingles, Rubio, Favors, O'Neale, Crowder, and Jerebko suck! Trade them asap!
Here comes garbage time. Burks enters the game with no pressure at all (that's why it's called garbage time) and makes a couple of 3s. Play him 30 minutes next game!

Based on overreaction after loses, our roster would include Donovan Mitchell and 14 different players. Not even Gobert would have survived the season as a Jazz player.

On a serious note, we started 16-4. PG13 got the ball, shot a contested 3 twisting his body while calling for a foul. It went in. You gotta be kidding me. 2 minutes later, 16-16.
 
PG13 is onfire, you cant do anything...

I thinks we lost defense at RS final. Its more statics and it is weak in the individualities. We need to return to the syntony.

And i hate opportunistic posts, hit or raise is not the solution. We can people, we just need to believe.
 
bigmike said:
Rubio completely sucked today.

When he's bad, he's really bad. There's a reason he's open for 18 shots. Long-term, we really need an upgrade at PG. Can't have a dude who can't shoot a lick, it really hurts.
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Rubio shot way more often (and tougher shots) than he should have, and couldn't find the net, but other than that he played excellent defense, fought for rebounds and gave his all as usual. There's a reason he was only a -2 and that Westbrook was just 7-17 with only 7 AST to 5 TO with him on the floor. There's much more to basketball than just scoring the ball.
 
Sugarless said:
Rubio shot way more often (and tougher shots) than he should have, and couldn't find the net, but other than that he played excellent defense, fought for rebounds and gave his all as usual. There's a reason he was only a -2 and that Westbrook was just 7-17 with only 7 AST to 5 TO with him on the floor. There's much more to basketball than just scoring the ball.
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Got to agree, but we need him to score effectively as well. They'll get it figured out. If he and Crowder score a bit more effectively, we win this going away. No reason to fall on our sword.
 
utahjazzz said:
Also many said that mitchell is a clutch player and he wins match for the jazz in the 4th quarter. Well, he disappeared and was non existent in the 4th quarter of this match.
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Surely you're not dumb enough to use this game's 4th quarter to come up with this "Mitchell is not clutch" argument right? Mitchell only played around 4 minutes in the 4th quarter (looks like the coaching staff had him on a minutes restriction) and he still scored 4 points. By contrast, Westbrook played almost double the the 4th quarter minutes DM played and only scored 6 pts. So does that mean Westbrook isn't clutch either?
 
People really need to watch Favors in this series. If he can't exploit Carmelo at either end of the court, why are some so intent on keeping him long term. This is a series where he should be an asset not a non-factor.

Overall, I'm not too concerned with OKC. I'm concerned by the refs and what I've seen over the years of stars being given an easier path to advance. But we can do this. Have to execute better.

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Reffing seemed a bit one-sided to me in terms of letting physicality go on each end. But, the Jazz still allowed OKC to control the tempo after that opening burst in the 1st quarter and I think that is ultimately what led to the Game 1 loss. That, and the fact that OKC just seemingly couldn't miss.
 
I'll cut the Jazz some slack this first game, guys like Rubio and Ingles just weren't hitting the shots they normally would. I say nerves could have been a factor.
I agree that Favors needs to pound the glass more, we weren't very good with rebounding either. I'm confident that the Jazz will make the necessary adjustments for game 2.
Overall they put up a good fight.
 
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