No one makes Kessler and Dok expendable, they just are
Game Thread Oct 11, 2022 07:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Spurs (Preseason)
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I think I'm going to enjoy this season more than I thought. It's going to be more of a season long comedy than a season long thriller. Much less stress.
Living on the East coast I can watch these 9PM EST games and just watch the first half live without any stress or difficulty going to bed. Then I'll watch the all possessions recap of the 2nd half.
Living on the East coast I can watch these 9PM EST games and just watch the first half live without any stress or difficulty going to bed. Then I'll watch the all possessions recap of the 2nd half.
My thoughts:
- Kessler looking like a serviceable big already in his career is great coming from the 22nd pick in the draft. I'm not sure what his ceiling is, but it looks like his floor is a rotation player in the NBA.
- The three big white guy lineup is going to be an interesting one to watch this year. They have looked really good in the minutes they've gotten together.
- Butler with some good and bad moments, but probably enough good moments to keep his spot on the team. He needs to stay in the lane of vanilla backup PG a little bit more because he looks ok running the offense and taking open 3's. He needs to cut out the Damian Lillard long 3's and trying to finish over 3 guys.
- Colin Sexton looks uncomfortable. It's probably a combination of getting back to game speed and trying to learn how to play point guard. It looks like he's resisting to act on some of his instincts in order to run the offense. The good news is this is the year for him to experiment and learn if he can do it.
- Agbaji needs more than 0 minutes in a preseason game. If I were Hardy I would carve out a consistent 8-12 minutes a game for Agbaji once the season starts. If he does well then keep him in the rotation and increase his minutes. If he struggles then send him to the G-League for a little bit.
- Kessler looking like a serviceable big already in his career is great coming from the 22nd pick in the draft. I'm not sure what his ceiling is, but it looks like his floor is a rotation player in the NBA.
- The three big white guy lineup is going to be an interesting one to watch this year. They have looked really good in the minutes they've gotten together.
- Butler with some good and bad moments, but probably enough good moments to keep his spot on the team. He needs to stay in the lane of vanilla backup PG a little bit more because he looks ok running the offense and taking open 3's. He needs to cut out the Damian Lillard long 3's and trying to finish over 3 guys.
- Colin Sexton looks uncomfortable. It's probably a combination of getting back to game speed and trying to learn how to play point guard. It looks like he's resisting to act on some of his instincts in order to run the offense. The good news is this is the year for him to experiment and learn if he can do it.
- Agbaji needs more than 0 minutes in a preseason game. If I were Hardy I would carve out a consistent 8-12 minutes a game for Agbaji once the season starts. If he does well then keep him in the rotation and increase his minutes. If he struggles then send him to the G-League for a little bit.
Abagji must be bad in practice. From what Locke is saying it's a very competition based camp, so Hardy can't really play guys if they aren't beating others out in camp
Thee Jazz Fan
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No you didn’t!! I did!!
Watching this game the first thing I thought was this was the bad news Bears if the bad news bears had a basketball team right down to the uniforms. Lol
Unless he is injured it is really strange. I'm already starting to dislike the guy.
This Agbaji thing is weird. You have to think Ainge is scratching his head a little bit about these rotations. Hardy really does have a Corbin stink to him so far.
Thee Jazz Fan
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Why? JC averaging 7 assists is a good thing… isn’t it??
Thee Jazz Fan
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And with or without JC we ain’t winning more than 18 games tops, and at least 30% chance we don’t reach double digit victories all season.
Also Collin Sexton is one of the higher effort defenders I've seen who is absolute dog **** on defense