WTF Rudy?

[SoUjazzfan]

Of late he's been catching the lob with one hand, when he could just as easily used two. Not sure if he thinks they're giving style points or what, but it has caused a couple of unnecessary misses. I can understand players reluctance to throw to him, but the team's obviously suffering from not doing it. Something is going to give with this team. Hopefully sooner than later. They've got to address their issues or they are never going away

 

[LogGrad98]

No more Conley, Please no more of that turd

I just figured if we aren't using any of the starters let him get some burn. We'll lose all those games anyway.

 

[Jazzta]

Mudiay going from solid 20 min performances to being absolutely negated, 0 mins. Maybe that would do something in the locker room as well... I bet this was probably brought up behind the scenes among some players.

 

[oneye]

He literally cannot catch a pass. And that is ****ing unacceptable on any level.

He had 4 TO last night for a guy who complains about not getting the ball. If you can’t catch it, don’t pout to get it when you turn it over constantly. If I was Rudy’s teammate I’d be over his whining tbh. I don’t care if he says something straight to them. But don’t do this passive aggressive annoying **** of taking shots to the media during postgames.

 

[Beer]

It seems like bounce passes are problematic particularly off the pick and roll, zip passes are problematic as well and he also has a tendency to hold the ball down below for long periods where people can steal it away. Truthfully, the only pass to Gobert that I feel confident with is the alley oop, but if he's not getting fed regularly he can go into petulant mode where he refuses to play D. Truthfully, I think he may be the most high-maintenance player on the team.

Any pass not right on top of the rim is problematic. And that is a problem.

 

[Jazzta]

Any pass not right on top of the rim is problematic. And that is a problem.

Chris Paul is pretty elite as a top of the rim facilitator, oh wait that train is gone..

 

[nateboz]

This is why I'm upset with Snyder right now. Rudy needs to be involved offensively to get fully engaged.
Mike has no clue how to get Rudy involved. Emanuel has no problem, attack the basket and drop it off to him.
Ingles being forced to guard Royces guy (when he was starting) really takes Joe out of the game. He's a good defender but he's not dominant. It takes a ton of his energy to guard them. Since Ingles is worn down he doesn't have the same game offensively and Rudy really relies on Joe to boost himself.
Bogey use to have the ball in his hands on like 20% of possessions. Now it's maybe 10%. Now he's regulated to standing in the corner or wing watching Conley or Mitchell dribble around.
This is so simple. Conley with Clarkson in the 2nd unit fixes this nonsense. Plus they both should be able to dominate any other bench units.

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[sahlensguy]

He had 4 TO last night for a guy who complains about not getting the ball. If you can’t catch it, don’t pout to get it when you turn it over constantly. [BB]I I was Rudy’s teammate I’d be over his whining tbh. [/B]I don’t care if he says something straight to them. But don’t do this passive aggressive annoying **** of taking shots to the media during postgames.

Well that's exactly what this team is lacking - a floor general. No one is holding others accountable so everyone is slacking (almost). I've said it before...Donovan needs to
care less about his image for awhile and get in his teammates' grills and call them out for not giving a **** on the court. He's the only one with the hops to do so. If he wants a team to be his team, he must take this next step.

 

[Jazzta]

This is why I'm upset with Snyder right now. Rudy needs to be involved offensively to get fully engaged.
Mike has no clue how to get Rudy involved. Emanuel has no problem, attack the basket and drop it off to him.
Ingles being forced to guard Royces guy (when he was starting) really takes Joe out of the game. He's a good defender but he's not dominant. It takes a ton of his energy to guard them. Since Ingles is worn down he doesn't have the same game offensively and Rudy really relies on Joe to boost himself.
Bogey use to have the ball in his hands on like 20% of possessions. Now it's maybe 10%. Now he's regulated to standing in the corner or wing watching Conley or Mitchell dribble around.
This is so simple. Conley with Clarkson in the 2nd unit fixes this nonsense. Plus they both should be able to dominate any other bench units.

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Don’t worry. Conley may or may not get benched next game, or viceversa.

 

[oneye]

Well that's exactly what this team is lacking - a floor general. No one is holding others accountable so everyone is slacking (almost). I've said it before...Donovan needs to
care less about his image for awhile and get in his teammates' grills and call them out for not giving a **** on the court. He's the only one with the hops to do so. If he wants a team to be his team, he must take this next step.

To their face, not the media though. Rudy is taking shots in media interviews. Trash.

 

[Keefe]

That Ingles extension was so dumb too.

 

[LogGrad98]

Don’t worry. Conley may or may not get benched next game, or viceversa.

Or he might get benched then un-benched, then re-benched at the last second only to be re-un-benched again.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

This is why I'm upset with Snyder right now. Rudy needs to be involved offensively to get fully engaged.
Mike has no clue how to get Rudy involved. Emanuel has no problem, attack the basket and drop it off to him.
Ingles being forced to guard Royces guy (when he was starting) really takes Joe out of the game. He's a good defender but he's not dominant. It takes a ton of his energy to guard them. Since Ingles is worn down he doesn't have the same game offensively and Rudy really relies on Joe to boost himself.
Bogey use to have the ball in his hands on like 20% of possessions. Now it's maybe 10%. Now he's regulated to standing in the corner or wing watching Conley or Mitchell dribble around.
This is so simple. Conley with Clarkson in the 2nd unit fixes this nonsense. Plus they both should be able to dominate any other bench units.

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I don’t think it was Quins decision. I’m putting this one on the front office... either bending to an agent request or just deciding they didn’t want to look dumb for getting a 35M backup pg.

 

[LogGrad98]

That Ingles extension was so dumb too.

Hindsight

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Or he might get benched then un-benched, then re-benched at the last second only to be re-un-benched again.

That’s the other thing... it will look even worse when we finally do the right thing now... and we’ve extended our less than ideal rotation. Quin is striking someone’s ego... either Mike or the front office... he should just be trying to ducking win games.

 

[homeytennis]

Last night Bojan, JIngles and Clarkson shoot 6-24 from the field and we lose by 11. What kind of message does this send to the guys on the bench or the guys on the Stars? Let's reward poor performance by giving them more minutes and shots the next game. What do DL's and Quin's metrics say about these numbers?

 

[Keefe]

Hindsight

Not at all. Myself and others said it at the time. Why the hell would they give him, at that age and at the dollar amount, an extra year when he had two years left? Made absolutely zero sense. Who the **** would give Ingles 14M at 34.7 years of age?

 

[JazzyFresh]

Love Rudy but being 7'2" and not even having to jump to dunk it's absolutely inexcusable that he can't consistently post up even the smallest and weakest of guys. I understand his frustration as he absolutely works his *** off but I also understand players around him having zero faith in his offensive prowess.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Not at all. Myself and others said it at the time. Why the hell would they give him, at that age and at the dollar amount, an extra year when he had two years left? Made absolutely zero sense. Who the **** would give Ingles 14M at 34.6 years of age?

I think the rationale behind that was to re-assure and to get additional buy in for the bench role. We didn't know Mike sucked and that Joe would struggle without a pick and roll partner. Joe is still good... his death has been greatly exaggerated. His defense has slipped, but he had it rolling pretty well for about 6+ weeks. Still a weird thing to do unless he gave a discount... which we didn't get.

 

[oneye]

Not at all. Myself and others said it at the time. Why the hell would they give him, at that age and at the dollar amount, an extra year when he had two years left? Made absolutely zero sense. Who the **** would give Ingles 14M at 34.6 years of age?

Agreed, it was a really dumb extension. I do think he’s probably trade-able if you do want to just blow things up though.