carolinajazz
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Explain to me how the fundamentally sound Utah Jazz, supposedly the farthest thing from "five slama jama" LEAD THE ENTIRE NBA IN DUNKS?
You say......WHAT?
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elan_prodigy
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Hold on, Ill start a new thread to respond.
TheStormofWar
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Dude, Sloan would be joygasming right now.
That said, Utah offense looks for lanes and the good open shot, PnR where appropriate, and a tuckfun of screens. Simple as that. Need a bit more offensive firepower, but we have something equaling an offensive scheme.
carolinajazz
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Good points! Be that as it may, seems to be strange that a team taught to lay the ball into the basket is now leading the league in dunks made per game! Can our offensive scheme be stifled come playoff time by smarter teams and coaches? I don't think so! Unless one of our key guys gets hurt or we go brain dead what is working NOW should work THEN!
Sloan never disliked dunks, he disliked unnecessary showiness. If you were at the basket and got a good jump, you dunked. Harder to get blocked that way.
Don’t forget Ingles and Rubio who do set up the dunk on the pick n dive.
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SoUjazzfan
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Rudy's safest shot is the dunk and as of late his footwork and patience has allowed him to do it more and more.
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How is a dunk not fundamental. It is the most difficult shot to block and any good offensive scheme is geared to generate many lay-up and dunk attempts and then secondarily open jumpers. Malone was one of the Kings of dunking in his day. Gobert might be the best in the modern NBA (debatable of course). But a dunk is fundamental basketball, no doubt.
carolinajazz
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Dunking the basketball is basically a modern day phenomenon, and was even outlawed in the college game for a while during the Bill Walton era! Now a days, of course, dunking is looked up to as the most exhilarating basketball move you can make! The Jazz lead the NBA in team dunks per game with a tad bit more than 8. Do you know who is second?
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Do you also view any over-hand shot as modern and flashy? That fundamental underhand shot though.
It's interesting that you call the era when dunking was banned the Bill Walton era, when it is generally agreed that dunking was banned because of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
And it's a modern day phenomenon right along with color television.
Alfalfa
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Bill Walton era lmao.
carolinajazz
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Wasn't it the year right after Walton was like 21 for 22 in the NCAA finals that they banned dunking the next year?
Alfalfa
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There were other players around if I'm not mistaken.
Dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976.[3][4] Many people have attributed this to the dominance of the then-college phenomenon Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar);[5] the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the "Lew Alcindor rule."[6][7] Many others have also attributed the ban as having racial motivations, as at the time most of the prominent dunkers in college basketball were African-American, and the ban took place less than a year after a Texas Western team with an all-black starting lineup beat an all-white Kentucky team to win the national championship.[8] Under head coach Guy Lewis, Houston (with Elvin Hayes) made considerable use of the "stuff" shot on their way to the Final Four in 1967.[9]
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The Jazz have the most dunks at 9.1% of their shots being dunks.
They are #2 in corner 3 attempts at 19.3% of shots.
They are #12 in layups at 28.8% of shots.
In total our 0-3 ft shots are 31.6% of our shots and we make 67.9% of them.
39.8% of our shots are 3pt shots and we make 35.1% of them.
6.5% of our shots are 16-3pt shots, 7.3% are 10-16 ft shots, and 14.8% of our shots are 3-10 ft shots. Our FG% on those are between 35% and 41.5%, so not so efficient, so it's good we don't shoot many of them.
Gobert is #1 in the league with 260 dunks, and Favors is #12 with 129 iirc.
Pick n dive baby!
They are #2 in corner 3 attempts at 19.3% of shots.
They are #12 in layups at 28.8% of shots.
In total our 0-3 ft shots are 31.6% of our shots and we make 67.9% of them.
39.8% of our shots are 3pt shots and we make 35.1% of them.
6.5% of our shots are 16-3pt shots, 7.3% are 10-16 ft shots, and 14.8% of our shots are 3-10 ft shots. Our FG% on those are between 35% and 41.5%, so not so efficient, so it's good we don't shoot many of them.
Gobert is #1 in the league with 260 dunks, and Favors is #12 with 129 iirc.
Pick n dive baby!
Lakers_Slapper
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I love my Jazz, but I got to call out when someone loses their mind and is boasting about being the #2 team for most 3 point shot attempts from the corner. It's all irrelevant if your not leading the league in 3 pt corner makes.
And 0-3 ft shots falling at 67.9%. They should because their ZERO - 3 FEET AWAY FROM THE BASKET. I would think our FG% would be high as would any teams 0-3 ft field goal percentage. Your extracting many gallons of lemonade and you were only given one lemon.