Al Jefferson on Inside the NBA

[chawx]

Big Al was reprezentin' the Jazz on Inside the NBA last night. He was on for about 3-4 minutes tops.

Basically it went like this, Kenny asked him why it's taking the Jazz to get down by 18 to get into the game and Al's answer was, "I don't know...we're working on it" etc.

Then they asked him what Sloan said at the half, Kevin McHale joked, "Can you repeat any of it?" and Al just basically said he got on us, told us to settle down, play our style, etc. Nothing groundbreaking.

Barkley asked him what the hardest part about going from a bad team to a winning team, and Al said basically all the new plays he had to learn and the complex offense the Jazz run.

Then McHale started to coach him about his post moves and telling him to stop fading with his shot and go up hard. Kenny was being the defender and he stepped in front of McHale the 2nd time and McHale then told Jefferson to go with the up and under if the defender cheats to the inside.

It's obvious McHale has a lot of love for Jefferson. I wonder the possibility of trying to bring McHale in ala. Hornacek when he was helping AK and others with their shot. Is McHale technically on another teams payroll? Or, since he's on Inside the NBA, is he available?

Oh, almost forgot, Barkley at the end asked how much Al's earrings cost. LOL. He didn't say, but they were pretty baller..huge yellow diamonds it looked like.

Anyway...that's it. Anyone else that saw it, feel free to add anything I missed.

 

[helifool]

you forgot to mention Big Al's hideous suit he was wearing.

https://www.nba.com/insidethenba/

 

[Purch]

Kevin Mchale helps Al Jefferson's post game get back to form on Inside the nba

https://www.nba.com/insidethenba/

 

[candrew]

Poor Kevin's gonna spend the rest of his life trying to justify that trade.

 

[Fishsticks]

Kevin is right though and hopefully he took something away from his 3 minute lecture. I realy dont think Kevin needs to justify that trade at all. The T wolves were at a crossroads and they recieved picks, cash and what at the time looked like a great core of young players. Al Jefferson has turned into a very good player. We have not even seen near his best yet.

 

[GoJazz]

You would think he could afford a suit that fits if he can afford those earings.

 

[Fishsticks]

Dude get off his suit. He looked fine.

 

[Marty McFly]

Poor Kevin's gonna spend the rest of his life trying to justify that trade.

Wait what? Isn't he the one who acquired Big Al? And then wasn't he fired before Big Al was traded to Utah?

 

[margodydek]

Poor Kevin's gonna spend the rest of his life trying to justify that trade.

What trade is that?

 

[margodydek]

Kevin is right though and hopefully he took something away from his 3 minute lecture. I realy dont think Kevin needs to justify that trade at all. The T wolves were at a crossroads and they recieved picks, cash and what at the time looked like a great core of young players. Al Jefferson has turned into a very good player. We have not even seen near his best yet.

You guys remind me of Tom Nissalke. If Mchale were with the team at some point during the season last year, then I could understand, but he hasn't been with the TWolves for the past few years. Rambis has been the coach and the 'tard David Kahn has been the GM.

 

[Inn Dawn]

McHale looks nice there and the guy needs credit for drafting KG and doing some nice things in Minny, but the MAJORITY of his time in Minny was spent driving that team into the ground. F McHale. Seems nice there, though.

 

[vslice02]

https://www.nba.com/insidethenba/

Now that's some good stuff by Kevin McHale. The left-shoulder jump hook is definitely Al's go-to move, but he has to be hitting it consistently to set up his counter moves (up-and-under and baseline spin). Love to see Kevin coaching him up...again Jazz coaches are still getting a feel for Al's game and moves so they don't know all the intricacies of his moves like McHale does.

One other thing I noticed from the Magic game was in the previous 3-games where Al was struggling with his shooting, when he would shoot that jump-hook, it was basically a push-shot because he wasn't following through, just lobbing it towards the rim. Against the Magic, he had a great follow-through, almost like a one-hand jumper and was extremely accurate on that shot.