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Thee Jazz Fan
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Watching Royce play defense last night was just another reminder of how the team just quit on each other last year and how miserable a season it was.
Thee Jazz Fan
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What I don’t understand is why we didn’t blitz Kyrie more. We did it once and it worked at around the 3:30 mark then never did it again and Kyrie proceeded to shred their defense. It made no sense to not try to get the ball out of his hands.
PS. Ben Simmons is trash. Lol
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Agreed. THT on him might have been good too.
Glad Royce played well for all his bozo haters
THT can't guard Kyrie at all. Neither can NAW.
Because teams figure it out fast. Blitzing isnt a thing you can overdo or it becomes easily exploitable
And Simmons was one of the main reasons they won...
Korisfani
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Doing it once and never doing it again isn't overdoing it. That one time led to a shot clock violation. At least let them solve it once and then do something different.
Instead the Jazz tried in the 1st half to switch Lauri to Kyrie - over and over. And it didn't work at all. Lauri can't guard someone like Kyrie so closely as to prevent him shooting it every time without being blown by. And in the 4th quarter the Jazz tried - over and over - to have Kessler get over the screen to get to Kyrie. And that didn't work at all.
Sure, you can't just stop Kyrie from scoring. But at least try something that has a chance of working. Now they just gave up the shot, time after time.
David Hume
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I’m starting to think we should take a close look at Cason Wallace in the draft.
They did it more than once...
Korisfani
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At what time? I can only remember the one @Thee Idiotic Minivan K mentioned.