The Non-Jazz NBA Thread in the Jazz Section

[homeytennis]

I predict Don gets swept. I'm sure there will be a statement today or tomorrow "We know what we need to do, we just need to do it."

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

It's not often I turn a playoff game off, but Tony Brothers has made this game unwatchable.

Everybody on the Wolves would have been in foul trouble last night with this whistle.

Calling a game with the two biggest foul baiters in the game has to be a nightmare

 

[FrenchJazzFa]

Defense is a team effort, nor jus only one or two guys. I think the big change at Minny came from pre-season where the team challenged himself for becoming the best defensive team in the NBA. And they made it. Rudy was part of it of course but if you look at the best data in defense for the season, Minny put 6 or 7 players in the top 30, including small Mike! Rudy at number 1, KAT at number 7, ANT number 9, Mike 16th , MacD 17th, NAW...
As i say at the beggining of the PO, good offense wins you games, good defense wins you series. And this team has great talents offensively. Even when they start slow, you know that there wil be a moment where they will catch fire on 3. And ANT is already clutch at 22.....

 

[HermanG]

I just dont see Boston winning the chip this year either. Their perimeter defense or rim defense doesnt look special at all, and Tatum has looked pedestrian for a month or so. They talk a lot, but I dont even care who comes out of the West I would likely bet on that team regardless.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Any preference from a Jazz standpoint on the OKC/DAL series?

Dallas has put together a pretty good team, but I'm pretty sure they have exhausted most of their resources, and so if they aren't competitive in this series, they might feel stuck and start selling.

On the other hand it would be nice to feel like OKC has some vulnerabilities with this core. The further they advance in the playoffs, the more it is going to feel like an unsurmountable task to get to their level.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Any preference from a Jazz standpoint on the OKC/DAL series?

Dallas has put together a pretty good team, but I'm pretty sure they have exhausted most of their resources, and so if they aren't competitive in this series, they might feel stuck and start selling.

On the other hand it would be nice to feel like OKC has some vulnerabilities with this core. The further they advance in the playoffs, the more it is going to feel like an unsurmountable task to get to their level.

Not really

 

[HermanG]

Any preference from a Jazz standpoint on the OKC/DAL series?

Dallas has put together a pretty good team, but I'm pretty sure they have exhausted most of their resources, and so if they aren't competitive in this series, they might feel stuck and start selling.

On the other hand it would be nice to feel like OKC has some vulnerabilities with this core. The further they advance in the playoffs, the more it is going to feel like an unsurmountable task to get to their level.

If you add in their bench prospects and picks, I think OKC already feels like they are bound to get to a level that is unaccessible to most teams.

So the further they go, the more other teams might panic (blowups, overpaying on upgrades etc). And the other side of it is that the more success OKC has... the more they gotta pay their guys when that day comes. Only thing to stop or even slow down OKC right now is probably cap/CBA stuff they might run into.

So I'm all for OKC going as far as possible at this point.

 

[Goodluckchuck]

Ironically, this makes me remember Jimmy Butler's tenure with the Timberwolves with Wiggins and Towns. He was ran out of town for his attitude....but that same mentality is glorified as "Heat Culture". You want the latter. Maybe guys like Butler and Gobert are like 10% too demanding, but you want a team culture where it's ok to be too demanding. When Gobert tells Mitchell and Clarkson to play defense, their response was "how dare you". I'm sure they had this conversation a million times in the locker room and it was the same response. If Gobert had to tell Ant to play defense, I'd bet that Ant would say "hell yeah". Thing is, Ant is a true competitor and will rise to the occasion on his own.

The Don/Rudy Jazz was a top to bottom failure. The FO, the coaching staff, the players.....they would rather get embarrassed over and over in the same way before they sought to address their mistakes and improve. They were content to be stubborn losers year after year.

Like that old saying. “You would rather look good and lose than look bad and win”.

 

[HermanG]

A surpising playoff stat:
Jalen Williams has more touches per minute than Embiid, Mitchell, Dame or SGA.

Also more touches per game than all of those guys except for Embiid.

 

[fishonjazz]

A surpising playoff stat:
Jalen Williams has more touches per minute than Embiid, Mitchell, Dame or SGA.

Also more touches per game than all of those guys except for Embiid.

Wow that IS a good stat

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[Saint Cy of JFC]

A surpising playoff stat:
Jalen Williams has more touches per minute than Embiid, Mitchell, Dame or SGA.

Also more touches per game than all of those guys except for Embiid.

That's not really surprising. If you told me his touch time was higher, that'd be surprising

 

[HermanG]

That's not really surprising. If you told me his touch time was higher, that'd be surprising

Well on that front his numbers are higher than what Embiid, Kyrie, Tatum, Brown, Conley, Beal, KD, Herro and DLo have for instance. Beats all of them in total time of possession and average touch duration.

Its just a 5 game sample though, but it is notable increase in terms of their offense running through him. Even in the post-ASB period he lost to Giddey and SGA and had 58.4 touches, vs 73.4 now.