Game Thread Apr 05, 2022 07:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Grizzlies

[Jingled]

So the Don to Rudy pass stat is a little bit irrelevant since they don't play together much?

I watched games more regularly earlier in the season and I don't remember them having their on court time together being this limited.

I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, but it has probably been a bit overblown. There are definitely times though when Rudy has a smaller guy sealed under the basket and Donovan looks right at him and doesn't make the pass.

 

[MTS]

I also want to say that House and Hernangomez show how absolutely terrible the complementing roster construction has been the past couple years on filling specific needs. Ever since the Denver series, the only thing we did was pretend Murray went off because we didn’t have Favors, then we said the guy already on our roster in Oni was the answer. When we didn’t address issues, everyone pointed to how talented everyone was and mentioned how hard it is to find what we’re looking for or said guys floating out there just weren’t good enough or aren’t good for Quin’s system or something.

House wasn’t some shrewd find from them scouring the league. He was floating out there picking up 10-days. We didn’t make any move for him. We waited until we were absolutely COVID depleted to sign him to a COVID exemption. We didn’t lock him up because we wanted “flexibility.” When nothing came around, we finally committed.

Juancho wasn’t on a radar. We took a salary dump to clear $3M this year but had to swallow $5M next year of NAW’s deal. Juancho came back as salary balancing as essentially an expiring contract. If they could have not taken him in the deal, they wouldn’t have. But here he ends up fitting within the system and bringing some much needed energy and hustle and being active.

We have both of these guys by absolute fluke and definitely not by the FO being proactive. Imagine what we could have done if we were actually looking for the right people all along. Showing that you can completely luck into two guys off the scrap heap flies in the face of all the learned helplessness about “aw shucks, there’s just no way to get better.”

I'd say the jury is still out on how impactful House and Juancho will be in the playoffs for us.

Not because I don't fully believe in them - but because Quin doesn't.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I haven't watched many games lately, I did watch tonight. House blew my ****ing mind. Like I was reconceptualizing what basketball could be after a couple of his more impressive plays. I was imagining basketball played in FFW mode. This guy seemed like he could do things in 1/4 the time it would take a normal human to do that thing.

I haven't watched many games lately, but that said, House has my eyebrows raised long past the time they should be. I'm intrigued.

It’s weird what can happen when we have a dynamic 3 in the game.

 

[jaytulao]

O'Neale was -13 tonight, House +15.

actually +17 for House...He may not necessarily start, but will need to close the game

 

[Katastrofica]

What does Royce do better than House?

And why isn’t Juancho getting any burn? What does Gay do better than Juancho? Especially in a game where Jackson is tearing us a new one? Why not try and match length with length?

This . But it seams Don bf can't be benched...

 

[LoPo]

The amount of sheer negativity throughout this thread is staggering. Whatever happened to watching a game and appreciating the good things?


Happy for the W. Let's keep it going.

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[Saint Cy of JFC]

So the Don to Rudy pass stat is a little bit irrelevant since they don't play together much?

I watched games more regularly earlier in the season and I don't remember them having their on court time together being this limited.

Lmao

 

[enchilada_style]

House is our second best player and it’s not even debatable at this point


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[Handlogten's Heros]

This . But it seams Don bf can't be benched...

He was benched… came in for a defensive sub at the end… unfortunately he didn’t come up with the ball but it’s the right call.

 

[idiot]

For whatever it's worth, I watched how many times the Jazz tried to pass it into Gobert either near the rim or on the move toward it. That happened 17 times in the game.

They ended up with 13 points from those possessions.

At least 5 or 6 ended up in turnovers (I wasn't counting those as closely).

 

[Deleted member 365]

The amount of sheer negativity throughout this thread is staggering. Whatever happened to watching a game and appreciating the good things?


Happy for the W. Let's keep it going.

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We barely beat the Grizz in salt lake when they were down Ja and Baby Deron. Cmon dude.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I just looked it up, Doka has 96 pts in the nba over his first two seasons. So basically the same amount of pts that Bane would have in a typical week. I know I know, Lopo wants us to be positive, but I think we might’ve ****ed that draft up.