Game 8: Jazz vs Grizzlies 7pm Mountain Time

[LoPo]

I'm going to be 100% honest. I was only able to watch the 3rd and 4th quarters. Rubio was absolutely dreadful the entire time I watched. He was doing iso and PNR and not creating anything. He was terrible.

Allen forced some shots but he is young and I give him a pass. Exum got pulled almost immediately after he got in.

For the amount of time Rubio had the ball, the results were terrible. Not to mention his D was awful.

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[Bawse Dawg]

I am surprised there is so much Rubio hate so far after we went through this exact thing last year and he proved everyone wrong.

But it’s also true we didn’t have Exum last year, and his potential is exciting. But he had a really bad stretch tonight, so I don’t think tonight is the night to make the Exum case.

I would love to see Quin swap some rotations though. Even if the minutes stayed the same. Exum in with Crowder Ingles and Mitchell keeps the floor spaced and gives us two playmakers to take the ball out of Exums hands in the halfcourt.

And Rubio with Niang and Allen also keeps the floor spaced, but Rubio doesn’t have to think about who should be taking the ball up the court.

 

[yamers]

ehh exum is pretty dookie too. He looked lost in the sauce, his inability to have ANY kind of dribble pull-up game totally handicaps him.

 

[str8line]

Without Ricky we would have been massively blown out. He had 11 AST. and was 9-17. He did have 4 TO's though.

 

[str8line]

Ingles had 5 TO on only 2 AST

 

[str8line]

Rudy was ineffective.

 

[LoPo]

Rubio was awful in the 4th quarter. Epically awful. He played exactly how Mack used to play for us and we couldn't get rid of the guy fast enough. I'm happy he played well in the 1st half, but the game was lost in the last 15 minutes. Rubio played a vast majority of those minutes.

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[yamers]

No, I'm clearly watching the games because Rubio led us to a 7 point half-time lead then got in early foul trouble (like in the first 30 seconds) and left then the Utah lead vanished because of Exum's complete lack of half-court offensive ability.

Rubio was 9/17 from the field and 3/7 from 3 with 11 assist. He was our best player tonight.

you have a fair point that rubio was good in the 1st half, but in the 2nd he vanished. You saw the 2 man game and ball movement from Gasol+conley? Conley's ability to get to the line is huge and he was magnificent. He totally owned rubio. Then again so did mack...mack owned both our PGs.


conley is the better play and it's not even close. Exum on the other hand can't finish at the rim mainly b/c the paint is so log jammed due to his inability to shoot anything outside of 3 feet. He has the same problem ben simmons has against smart D, except Ben has stellar vision that Exum completely lacks.

 

[str8line]

The FG % were somewhat close. But they did drain 3's at a 12% better clip.

13-26 vs. 14-36.

They shot 50% from three. There's your difference right there. Among other things. FT's... etc.

 

[yamers]

Rudy was ineffective.

rudy isn't going to be effective when your PG isn't able to pull the defenses out. Now add favors to the mix and the entire paint is log jammed, we are having the same problems as last year early. Rubio picked it up last year towards the second half of the season. I just think this Jazz team is going to struggle vs a team like Memphis, they just match up really well. Their style totally takes us out of anything we do.

 

[str8line]

They had 9 steals, we only had 3.

 

[yamers]

But all the shooting % were somewhat close. They did drain 3's at a 10% better clip.

turnovers+free throws.