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Game Thread Oct 23, 2024 07:00PM MT: Memphis Grizzlies @ Utah Jazz

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SoberasHotRod said:
Keyonte is going to have good and bad games this year. The game threads will be unreadable if we continue to overreact to everything he does in his second year.
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There is a group of posters who want to bash him whenever they can. Its the same guys every time.

Seems to me like they dislike his brand of basketball too much to root for the guy. Its definitely poorly founded to constantly jump on a 20 year old who plays as well as Key and who also gets a lot of hype/trust from the coach and vast majority of fanbase and media.

But it is what it is.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I don't think Memphis looks that great, I wouldn't peg them as a playoff team yet. They are relying a lot on unproven players in Edey, Wells, and Pippen Jr. I like all 3 of those players, but they will have growing pains this year.

I'm guessing there are some Edey doubters using this game as evidence they were right. He wasn't able to stay on the court and the defense was awful with him in the game. If you paid attention, however, you could see how much attention he was getting and how much that opened up shots for his teammates. The one truly concerning thing, in my opinion, was that Ja does not seem to like him. At the very least Ja does not want to give him the ball in the post. Memphis is probably better staggering their minutes and letting Edey eat in the second unit for now.
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They will be a lot better when they get JJJ back
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Keyonte is going to have good and bad games this year. The game threads will be unreadable if we continue to overreact to everything he does in his second year.
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They've put a ton of pressure on him as a creator with the starting 5 we're rolling with early on, gonna need to find the balance of when to look to score and when to create
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I don't think Memphis looks that great, I wouldn't peg them as a playoff team yet. They are relying a lot on unproven players in Edey, Wells, and Pippen Jr. I like all 3 of those players, but they will have growing pains this year.

I'm guessing there are some Edey doubters using this game as evidence they were right. He wasn't able to stay on the court and the defense was awful with him in the game. If you paid attention, however, you could see how much attention he was getting and how much that opened up shots for his teammates. The one truly concerning thing, in my opinion, was that Ja does not seem to like him. At the very least Ja does not want to give him the ball in the post. Memphis is probably better staggering their minutes and letting Edey eat in the second unit for now.
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They were missing 3 rotation players...

They will be fine, actually great imo.
 
Also one thing that wasnt mentioned... I am happy Ja is back. He is just such an entertaining and special player to watch. The most entertaining player in the league imo.

I think he had like 10 mid-flight decisions in this game where he had just driven to the trees without knowing what to do, and somehow almost everything he did there worked. Some circus passes, tough shots and fouls drawn.
 
YoungJefe said:
Some other notes:
When is Collier supposed to be back? We have pretty much zero creation outside of George, especially off the bench.
Can Kessler / Lauri / Hendricks work together long term when basically none of them can pass?
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IIRC Collier will be reevaluated today
 
Watching Jordan Clarkson continues to be one of the most entertaining and odd things in the NBA. Not sure many players have a looser/wild handle while also being extremely good at getting to spots on the court.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I don't think Memphis looks that great, I wouldn't peg them as a playoff team yet. They are relying a lot on unproven players in Edey, Wells, and Pippen Jr. I like all 3 of those players, but they will have growing pains this year.

I'm guessing there are some Edey doubters using this game as evidence they were right. He wasn't able to stay on the court and the defense was awful with him in the game. If you paid attention, however, you could see how much attention he was getting and how much that opened up shots for his teammates. The one truly concerning thing, in my opinion, was that Ja does not seem to like him. At the very least Ja does not want to give him the ball in the post. Memphis is probably better staggering their minutes and letting Edey eat in the second unit for now.
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It will take time for him to adjust to the fouling. Jaylen Wells was doing the same thing. They see Smart doing it so they think they can just be aggressive but they dont understand the nuances of what refs do and dont call yet. They do need to actually give him the ball some. I would be disappointed if they drafted him and really refused to feature his strengths. Like if you have John Collins in the game guarding Edey, punish that matchup like the Kings did with Sabonis. Some teams just get way too caught up in playing the space/pace game all the time.
 
HermanG said:
There is a group of posters who want to bash him whenever they can. Its the same guys every time.

Seems to me like they dislike his brand of basketball too much to root for the guy. Its definitely poorly founded to constantly jump on a 20 year old who plays as well as Key and who also gets a lot of hype/trust from the coach and vast majority of fanbase and media.

But it is what it is.
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There's a group of posters who just get off on being as negative as possible. I'm all for criticism and realistic expectations, but some people on here are just lame AF.
 
Zombie said:
Speaks to how great some of the performances in this game were that this was as close as it was. You’re not going to win many games in the association when your opponent takes 20 more 3’s than you at a decent clip.
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One way to do it is shoot 45 FT's.
 
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