Game 58: Jazz at Thunder, Feb 22 7:30pm mtn

[LoPo]

The Jazz were up by 5 with 2 mins left and had two bad turnovers in the ensuing minute.
The Jazz were up by 3 with under 20 secs left, but Gobert fouled Grant to give up a 3-pt play.

Jazz just made too many mistakes.

I agree with this. The turnovers and bogus 3 point plays for OKC in the last two minutes really hurt us.

OT was just OT. So much iso and lack of creativity. If Donovan was called as tight as OKC was at the end of regulation, we would have won.

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[SCS]

Donovan tried to do what he could but maybe it was Quinn's fault for not trying something else (?). All we did with Donovan was him isoing and bulldozing into the paint AT LEAST 8 times.

Okay so whose hands do you want the ball in if you don't want it in the hands of our best offensive player? Who is creating and getting us a good look if not Donovan? Nobody.

You're blaming Donovan when the problem isn't him. The problem is that we lack a second option who can create or at least be a threat to create. We can run sets all day but in those situations the opponent knows it's going to end up in Donovans hands anyway because he's our only creator so I don't mind Quin calling Iso and just letting Donovan try to get mismatches with screens.

We just need a secondary creator and scorer man. That's the issue. If we had one Donovan would be much more efficient and effective because he'd get better looks and be able to save some energy

 

[Sandman822]

lol @ anyone ITT who thinks this loss is Mitchell's fault.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

You know, that play where Paul George batted the ball into our backcourt in OT was a pretty hard foul by PG on Rubio. Not complaining, but no way Westbrook wouldn't get that call.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Just finished watching the game. It seemed like everytime the jazz were going to put the game away they’d shoot them selves in the damn foot, and my god, they had a ton of lazy pass turnovers drove me crazy

 

[Miggs]

24 turnovers.

Awful.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Let’s call it the way it is, Rubio is giving us zero.

If he could create easy buckets for others and defend? That might make up for his inability to shoot and keep defenses honest. Unfortunately, he can’t even do that. So what can he do? What are our PGs supposed to be able to do? I’m genuinely interested.

Often, Stockton would pass up shots to get better shots for others. On those games that his shot wasn’t going in, his defense and ability to create made up for it. I think we’ve forgotten what it’s like to have a PG like Stockton or Deron who could create easy looks for others.

I really wish we would’ve improved this team over the offseason. Why didn’t we draft a PG? At least one that could either create or hit shots?

 

[str8line]

24 turnovers.

Awful.

Only caught a little bit of the game but this seems bad.

 

[David Stern]

I wish there was a clear answer for a point guard. DL has probably spent more resources on that position than any other, yet we still don’t have a long term starter.


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[Sandman822]

Only caught a little bit of the game but this seems bad.

At the start of 2OT Rubio literally threw the ball away on back to back possessions. Don't think he did anything else offensively for the rest of the game.

 

[Avery]

Chemistry is going to get us a first round exit. Team needs retooling next year.

 

[LoPo]

Chemistry is going to get us a first round exit. Team needs retooling next year.

Pretty shocking that we rely on a 2nd year player as much as we do. We have 1 great offensive player and he is a sophomore. Good stuff DL.

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