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Game thread: Game #30 : Utah Jazz at Houston, Sunday 02/19/2012 5:00 PM MST

Who’s gonna win the game?

  • Utah Jazz.

    Votes: 17 54.8%

  • Whoever wins.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Whoever scores more.

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Wait a minute, I have to pee.

    Votes: 4 12.9%

  • Houston, we have a problem.

    Votes: 7 22.6%

  • This thread sucks.

    Votes: 1 3.2%
  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .
JJAS said:
Yes, they sucked, and so did Hayward, whose mental frailty is beginning to get frustrating. He started off with 4 assists in the first quarter, got two fouls, and then never found any rhythm. The ball movement sucked as well. Also, Earl pretty much sucks in most games and has a propensity to hack the crap out of people.
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Hayward was fine. Actually played quite well in the 1st.

I do not buy 2 fouls as a reason to sit him. 3...maybe...only if you plan on playing him a lot.

Then, to the bench till the 3rd where he got another whopping 8 minutes (till the end when it was over and Ty was ticked at CJ).

Ty is LOSING a lot of our games with Stupid rotations.

CJ & Howard should not see the floor much. Hayward & Burks should be playing a lot more.

I've said it before and I will say it again, these time rotations make EVERYONE worse.

We should have at least 4 more wins if we had a real coach. Today's game was very winnable.
 
JJAS said:
I think Ty (we're on close terms) would say, "he had two fouls", but that doesn't excuse the lack of minutes overall. Although he was timid Hayward, the guy that I find hard to take. When he's aggressive he's special. He's kind of been in a three game slump.
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I can understand not putting him in the 2nd quarter. CJ was playing pretty good defense, and to his credit, hit a big 3 pointer towards the end. Hayward was able to start the 3rd with only two fouls (and he picked up a 3rd pretty quickly) which would allow him to be more aggressive.
 
udflyer said:
Hayward was fine. Actually played quite well in the 1st.

I do not buy 2 fouls as a reason to sit him. 3...maybe...only if you plan on playing him a lot.

Then, to the bench till the 3rd where he got another whopping 8 minutes (till the end when it was over and Ty was ticked at CJ).

Ty is LOSING a lot of our games with Stupid rotations.

CJ & Howard should not see the floor much. Hayward & Burks should be playing a lot more.

I've said it before and I will say it again, these time rotations make EVERYONE worse.

We should have at least 4 more wins if we had a real coach. Today's game was very winnable.
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Did you watch the game today? I agree that Burks should be playing more, but today he didn't earn any minutes. He played terrible defense and couldn't get past Kevin Martin (yeah, that's right Kevin Martin) on offense.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Did you watch the game today? I agree that Burks should be playing more, but today he didn't earn any minutes. He played terrible defense and couldn't get past Kevin Martin (yeah, that's right Kevin Martin) on offense.
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He learns quick though.

We are going nowhere this season. I want to see Burks, Hayward, Favors, Kanter a lot more. We need to know who to keep, who to trade etc..... Burks has shown great improvement from early on.

Plus we have more great draft picks coming up. We are not going to find out until give serious minutes to these guys. I am done with CJ, Howard and reduce Bell a little (he has been great lately but we still need to find out).

Otherwise we will be in an infinite loop of a lot of young talent not giving them the keys. I like the OKC model better.

This year is just a tease. A dab of vets, a dab of youth = we suck. Since we are going to suck anyway, lets se the future...now.
 
udflyer said:
He learns quick though.

We are going nowhere this season. I want to see Burks, Hayward, Favors, Kanter a lot more. We need to know who to keep, who to trade etc..... Burks has shown great improvement from early on.

Plus we have more great draft picks coming up. We are not going to find out until give serious minutes to these guys. I am done with CJ, Howard and reduce Bell a little (he has been great lately but we still need to find out).

Otherwise we will be in an infinite loop of a lot of young talent not giving them the keys. I like the OKC model better.

This year is just a tease. A dab of vets, a dab of youth = we suck. Since we are going to suck anyway, lets se the future...now.
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I 'want' the same thing, but it's hard to bench those you're intending to trade, dumb down their stats, and get the value you're looking for ..
 
They don't show replays of this stuff, so I could be wrong, but it looked like Harris got fouled without a call on one end, within 20 seconds of being called for "fouling" Lowry on the other end with less contact.

Yet the Jazz don't shoot a single foul shot in the first half. Come on, there wasn't a foul on one single Utah shot for the entire half, for the team that takes it inside the most in the league? I don't believe it.
 
Favors, Kantor, Hayward all missed a 2 handed dunk tonight. Sometimes it's better to dunk with one hand, or to just scoop a layup. You've got to mix things up, and with just one hand you can get more extension, balance, and quickness.
 
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I also have to say that I liked a few new things that Kanter did tonight in addition to playing quite well in general. He picked up his man, Dalembert, up high and hounded him. Normally, he backs off, but tonight he got up in his face and caused problems. Second, even though he missed the dunk, he went hard and had some explosion and speed. I watched it again on Synergy, and it definitely looked like he got fouled on the play and he was holding his face coming back the other way like he got hit. So those were some pluses for me.
 
Wow, that was awful. Got it to a 2 point game in the 4th only to have, yet again, 3 point shooting doom the Jazz including a special play by Miles to give the Rockets a 4 point play....sigh.
 
I grow weary of Hayward. Patrick Patterson makes me sad. Jazz need a sf. Coach Corbin looks tired, so does the Jazz Offense.
 
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