Game Thread August 30, 2020: Nuggets at Jazz - Game 6

[NAOS]

I think we trapped Murray like 2 times the whole game at the end. Don’t get me wrong... Murray has been fire... but he’s also way too ****ing comfortable.

This. ****ing infuriating

 

[Deleted member 365]

I do not feel good about the Jazz going into game 7. They look defeated already.
Assuming Denver advances it is going to be really interesting to see how Murray looks against the Clippers. We may find out exactly how bad our defense is.

So glad we just signed Ingles and O’Neale to extensions...

I don’t think their contract extensions is the problem. The elephant in the room is Conley. We traded so much for him, he’s not a good fit, and he’s only getting older.

 

[cowhide]

In Rudy's defense, his teammates did him no favors on the defensive end. They leave him in impossible positions when Murray goes through 2 or 3 guys and Rudy rotates and that leave Grant or Jurkic open for wide open shots. They didn't miss too many of those tonight.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Probably just me over reacting but after some chippy interactions tonight... I’m thinking there may be some major changes if we lose game 7.

 

[Hekate]

The rest of the team expects him to clean up, yes. I can see the argument for preserving yourself for the other side of the ball (Donovan) or preserving yourself generally (Joe), but Royce is here to do one ****ing thing and he has to fight harder at it.

Yes but Rudy is playing against the best big in the league, at least offensively. He can't help on everything. Everyone needs to step up. Mitch can get some slack for sure.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

Any chance we could swap out Snyder for Atkinson if we blow this series? Where’s the killer instinct coach?

 

[cowhide]

The way I feel right now, the Jazz are toast unless they get outstanding games from 3 to 4 players. Tonight it was DM and Conley had his moments. Everyone else stunk up the joint.

 

[LoPo]

Why?

We have surrounded him with defenders and we needed offense. We surrounded him with offensive players, and now we need defense.

There was a glimmer of defensive prowess a few games vs Houston last year but we still lost 2 of those 3 games.

I personally think we could be better with bigs who can set screens but also get out and guard the perimeter. We don't dominate rebounding with Rudy. He doesn't protect the rim exceptionally well in the playoffs.

I want to keep Rudy, but I don't think he is a max player.

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[Handlogten's Heros]

I don’t think their contract extensions is the problem. The elephant in the room is Conley. We traded so much for him, he’s not a good fit, and he’s only getting older.

Tonight the offense was my turn your turn when Mike was on the court... it wasn’t great. It looked pretty great a couple games and I got some hope but then it’s gone back to the same kinda weird dance. It just isn’t consistently fluid it seems.

 

[homeytennis]

Our bench is garbage. Why not let Oni, Morgan, JWF, NWG and Brantley have a lot of minutes for game 7. At least they might try, play some D and hustle. Jerry is weeping tonight.

 

[cowhide]

I am not feeling confident going into game 7 but hey every game is different. You have to play the game .

 

[jom2003]

Probably just me over reacting but after some chippy interactions tonight... I’m thinking there may be some major changes if we lose game 7.

That would mean the Conley experiment has officially failed. It'd be either Quin or DL out of the door.