It wasn't Rudy, Royce, Don, whoever.
Rudy was also injured as well. Read Sarah Todd's piece today.
People forget that Rudy is at fault for the play her got hurt on... he was halfassing his way back on D and realized his man was MANN, who was full steam ahead. Had Rudy hustled initially to get back on D that whole debacle never happens. Rudy is a space cadet sometimes
1) no one is disputing that Mike was the best player in that deal. What most are saying is it was entirely the wrong deal for the wrong kind of player, and the overpay was real, especially considering his injury history which, guess what, cost us advancing in the playoffs largely. Bad deal for us. Not hard to see.
Typing that resurfaced all that anger and disappointment, which was the very point of me taking a break from consuming most anything sports related.
Was there a specific different look that the jazz threw at the clippers in game 1 that they were getting killed by and that they made no adjustment too at all? Was it the same different look that had been thrown at them in 3 recent previous playoff series and they failed to have any kind of gameplan for?
If by "different looks" you mean Ersan, Brantley, Doke or Hughes, I don't know what else to tell ya.
That's just asinine. He played niang and we found out he was unplayable. That's the knowledge he needed to pivot away. But he kept playing niang instead of trying anyone else. Just like he kept expecting Rudy to both guard the paint and close out on a very hot outside shooter. When it was obvious that wasn't working he should have tried something else. He didn't. He doubled down instead of letting anyone else see the floor to find out what they could do. That's poor game and personnel management.
"Double down" is a very accurate word to use here cuz you keep saying Quin should've tried something different. But what "different" things do guys like Ersan, Hughes, Doke, Morgan or Thomas bring onto the table exactly? If anything, they only bring us the lesser version of Rudy, Niang, Favs, Bogey or JC which got us killed in the first place.
Well we "thought" we knew what we had in niang, then he became completely unplayable. Maybe by playing someone else for just 5 minutes of the 100 minutes we completely sucked in they would show you something else. Brantley is more athletic than Niang. He might have been able to at least bother Mann. Ersan has playoff experience, he might bring a different look that is just disruptive enough to get an edge for a bit. But the thing is he didn't even give any of these guys just 5 minutes here or there. No one is saying that we had Michael Jordan on the bench and QS left him there, but the fact that he didn't try anything else at all is ridiculous. If you aren't going to try to see what they can give you then why sign any of them? How could 3-5 minutes of Ersan be worse than allowing a 25 point lead to evaporate and watching Rudy flail around because he just couldn't do it all. At least give him a break and give them a different look. You don't know unless you try, so now we still don't know because they didn't try.
i mean it's real easy to point the finger at the coach when we lose a game. After all, any gameplan that resulted in a L is a bad one. If Quin subbed in Favs or Ersan and the Jazz still lost, then people would instead criticize Quin for making bad/unnecessary adjustment and not trusting his star center that costed us the game.
I guess you weren't watching the game very closely. Some of Mann's 3's weren't even contested let alone half-assed contests.
But he gotta be willing to take those uncontested threes and make them. We've got players who are too afraid to shoot even when left wide open.
Yeah. You see but don't understand. And I'm done explaining it to the morons. Suffice it to say when was ayton expected to defend the opposing team's hot scoring guard and defend the paint at the same time? If you can't figure it out from that, you're hopeless and clueless.
