Game thread: Game #19 : Trail Blazers at Utah, Monday 01/30/2012 7:00 PM MST

[Thee Jazz Fan]

They reversed to jumpers in 3 quarter when Kanter was not playing. And it is not only LMA. Nobody from Blazers team was going inside, they all where firing 20-23FT jumpers, LMA included. Kanter played good post defense in 4th but not sure that was the reason Blazers lost. I think Macmillan lost control on his team in second half, I did not see timeouts or change of game plan or any new plays. They got sloppy and could not match Jazz energy thanks to Watson - he is MVP of this game.

that's how they run there offense. Aldridge is a perimeter player and only takes it inside if he has a smaller player on him. Matthews and Wallace are their slashers, both were god awful tonight all the other players are jump shooters. Camby, Aldridge, Crawford, Batum, Thomas are all nothing more then jump shooters. That's their offense.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

True Life: I Out-rebounded a 40 Year Old

40-year old professional rebounder who is not used to getting bowled over by young players

 

[BYE]

Yeah, but no 6'11" player should get blocked like that. I think he's just too slow and casual about shooting, like he's not used to playing with other players that have the ability to block him.

I think there is a lot of truth to this. Josh Harellson, who played with Kanter at Kentucky, called Enes "a freak athlete." Either he is an absolute liar, or he saw something in practices that Enes has not transferred to real games.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

40-year old professional rebounder who is not used to getting bowled over by young players

I think Kurt Thomas has been use to younger players being better than him for quite some time now.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I think there is a lot of truth to this. Josh Harellson, who played with Kanter at Kentucky, called Enes "a freak athlete." Either he is an absolute liar, or he saw something in practices that Enes has not transferred to real games.

Let's just call it a friendly exaggeration.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Dude, relax, you do not understand me. Have you seen at least a single drive in the paint by their guards or SF, any slash to the basket?? It is not about feeding the post players only, it is about getting layups by guards or SF as well. Blazers did not do that - their all team was chucking jumpers all second half. Look at %, Jazz shot horrible and only because of offensive rebounding and steals were able to squeeze this win. It is pure effort win where shooting ( including FT shooting) sucked but was compensated by energy/hustle plays. Ugly as hell but a win is a win.

If you rematch the game, these lanes that opened up the slashing through the paint opened up AS A RESULT of the team focusing on shutting down aldridge. When the team found out that Kanter could hold Aldridge onto his own, then everyone else focused on their own assignments, and our defense thrived because of it. The jumpshots towards the end occurred because they spent 12 seconds on the clock trying to give aldridge good post position, and kanter wouldn't have any of it. Go and rematch the 4th quarter. Perfect example was in the 4th, when LMA was fed, and then Kanter swatted it away, but got charged in the foul. That play was run strictly for LMA, and it took Felton (or Jamal, forget who) like 4-5 seconds of waiting until LMA was in a good position to get it, only to have it swatted away.

Also, tell me: who led our team in offensive rebounds?

Kanter and Watson were the two keys to this game. The fact that you haven't complimented Kanter once so far is proof that you're just a garbage poster.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If you rematch the game, these lanes that opened up the slashing through the paint opened up AS A RESULT of the team focusing on shutting down aldridge. When the team found out that Kanter could hold Aldridge onto his own, then everyone else focused on their own assignments, and our defense thrived because of it. The jumpshots towards the end occurred because they spent 12 seconds on the clock trying to give aldridge good post position, and kanter wouldn't have any of it. Go and rematch the 4th quarter. Perfect example was in the 4th, when LMA was fed, and then Kanter swatted it away, but got charged in the foul. That play was run strictly for LMA, and it took Felton (or Jamal, forget who) like 4-5 seconds of waiting until LMA was in a good position to get it, only to have it swatted away.

Also, tell me: who led our team in offensive rebounds?

Kanter and Watson were the two keys to this game. The fact that you haven't complimented Kanter once so far is proof that you're just a garbage poster.

Do they really count when half of them are off his own miss?

 

[udflyer]

If you rematch the game, these lanes that opened up the slashing through the paint opened up AS A RESULT of the team focusing on shutting down aldridge. When the team found out that Kanter could hold Aldridge onto his own, then everyone else focused on their own assignments, and our defense thrived because of it. The jumpshots towards the end occurred because they spent 12 seconds on the clock trying to give aldridge good post position, and kanter wouldn't have any of it. Go and rematch the 4th quarter. Perfect example was in the 4th, when LMA was fed, and then Kanter swatted it away, but got charged in the foul. That play was run strictly for LMA, and it took Felton (or Jamal, forget who) like 4-5 seconds of waiting until LMA was in a good position to get it, only to have it swatted away.

Also, tell me: who led our team in offensive rebounds?

Kanter and Watson were the two keys to this game. The fact that you haven't complimented Kanter once so far is proof that you're just a garbage poster.

Kanter is going to be special.

I think he had a great game.

 

[GVC]

Before tonight's game, Kanter was shooting 50%, getting to the line and hitting his free throws, rebounding like an animal and playing tremendous D. Dude's PER was 18 (although it will be down after tonight). He's still having some difficulty adjusting to the speed of the game, but he's been the Jazz's 3rd best big man this season, despite not playing competitive ball in quite a while. His problems are very correctable.

 

[Dr. Jones]

I think there is a lot of truth to this. Josh Harellson, who played with Kanter at Kentucky, called Enes "a freak athlete." Either he is an absolute liar, or he saw something in practices that Enes has not transferred to real games.

Really? Not saying you're wrong, but I didn't hear that. Josh did say that Enes was better than Cousins. I personally watched Kanter dominate Cousins, Mohammed, and others. We're not seeing his game quite yet. Give him another 50 games.

 

[delpotro]

dalamon's a smart man---totally agree with his post above

 

[Zulu]

Hope Evans makes it on the top ten on ESPN tonight!