Game Thread Oct 26, 2021 08:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Nuggets

[framer]

Watching the game last night, I came to the conclusion that Butler, Dok and Hughes need some playing time with the Stars. Butler needs some confidence back. Dok and Hughes because they aren't very good at this level.

All of the player are belong to Homeytennis and the Stars.

 

[infection]

All of the player are belong to Homeytennis and the Stars.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

 

[KqWIN]

DM insurance is what keeps us out of the play in games and allows us favorable seeding. We keep Butler because he isn't going to be close to starter level this year.

Trading Bojan for someone like Hart is just moronic. Bojan made a difference for Indiana before we got him. If Hart were any good, he'd at least have made a marginal impact on any team he has played for before this point. I'd think twice before adding anyone from that underachieving train wreck of New Orleans at the price it would take to get them.

If the Jazz traded Bojan for a librarian we wouldn't be close to the play in games. If Bogey and Mitchell were the only scorers/ball handlers on the roster maybe, but we have a serious surplus scorers/ball handlers that we don't have the touches for. It wouldn't kill us to get players with skillsets we need desperately instead of stacking our team with even more scorers/ball handlers. It's never a bad thing to be well situated if your star goes down....but how of that do you really need and how important is covering for the disaster scenario? We have more than enough.

Taking a player from a bad situation who can excel in a better situation seems like a great idea, that's how we got Clarkson. If you think Hart is the reason NOP can't win, I don't know what to tell you. Davis and Holiday couldn't even win there. Hart isn't perfect, but neither is Bogey. He's been a great rebounder and hustle guy his whole career. We could really use that considering the fact that we've had to back to back historic defensive failures. I don't think it's moronic at all to try and address that issue.

 

[LogGrad98]

I mean we were blow for blow with them while we were "sucking" and they were playing all world. Sucks for them that they have injuries, but I'm not going to cry for them. Nobody cries for us when we have injuries and we play an entire month without Donovan and Mike. Nobody here gets to blame injuries for us going out against the Clippers. The last few years we have played Denver on the backside of a back to back 6 out of 8 times. Depth is part of the game.

If you want to assign asterisks, that's you choice, but it is a hard way to go through life.

Wow you read a lot of weird **** into stuff. You're projecting bro. My point was they are missing their best people and we really got lucky to win and therefore we need to do better. Not sure how that affects your psyche with your whole life's path talk but I hope you get the help you need.

 

[framer]

Wow you read a lot of weird **** into stuff. You're projecting bro. My point was they are missing their best people and we really got lucky to win and therefore we need to do better. Not sure how that affects your psyche with your whole life's path talk but I hope you get the help you need.

Did we get lucky? I'd posit that they needed all world games from Jokic, Barton, and Gordon to just stay even. ANd we weren't supposedly playing well. That game looked a lot like the last few times we played them where they shoot unworldly, play no defense, and we pull away at the end after locking down for the last 10 minutes.

All I'm saying is that we should enjoy every damn win. Sometimes things get stacked against us and we lose. Thankfully it happened to the other guy this time. Denver is good, but Jokic's durability is part of their equation, just like Mike's is a part of ours.

Jazz generally start slow. Weren't we 3-3 to start last season?