Game Thread Apr 08, 2022 07:30PM MT: Jazz vs. Suns

[Handlogten's Heros]

So it’s an anxiety death spiral. We start super slow with a 0-4 run… but then it tightens up a bit and Donovan and sometimes Mike think “we’ve got to get a good shot” and then they force an iffy look… miss. Then something dumb like a moving screen or bad pass and now we are in full blown anxiety mode. Then it’s contested fade aways layups that have no shot… a guy open but doesn’t shoot cuz his *** cheeks are so tight he can’t move… now there is 5 seconds on the clock….

It’s definitely on Donovan but also big time on Quin… Mike gets a sliver too for not being assertive enough. Suns put on a master class… Monty might not be the best Xs and Os guy… got canned in NO and struggled… but he’s likely the best leader/emotional intelligence guy. Between him and CP it’s not surprising they win every close game… the rest of the team feeds off it and picks up their play.

We have the opposite… a guy that can’t adjust on the fly… that underestimates the human mental part of this… thinks he can clipboard his way out of this ****… it’s more than that Dawg.

 

[MTS]

I’m not going to fact check this guy, but if everyone is expecting us to not fact check Quin, then random twitter people get a pass, too.

How is Quin empowering our best player by saying him only receiving 2 passes per game from our highest usage player is not a problem?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I’m not going to fact check this guy, but if everyone is expecting us to not fact check Quin, then random twitter people get a pass, too.

I mean if you look at it 619 is basically average… if you look at the population across all basketball players everywhere it’s elite. 99% percentile. When you use numbers you need context. How many of those 625 were up 20? Not many so the sample is too small.

 

[Shad]

House should be playing 30 minutes a game while Royce gets 12 at best

 

[SoUjazzfan]

It's seriously time to call in a shaman, medicine man, exorcist, priest, soothsayer, or any other form of performance altering individual to get rid of this juju.

Maybe Kyrie would come and burn some sage to cleanse the arena and locker room.

 

[infection]

I mean if you look at it 619 is basically average… if you look at the population across all basketball players everywhere it’s elite. 99% percentile. When you use numbers you need context. How many of those 625 were up 20? Not many so the sample is too small.

619 is actually the best position to be in with the sex machine. If you’re the 1 in between that 6 and 9. There’s no other 1 between a 6 and a 9 so that’s actually pretty good, depending how you look at it.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I truly don’t care anymore… we have managed to live in denial and make dumbass moves that internet jackasses like me could tell were mistakes from day one…


Simple ****… like hey sign Daniel house… hey don’t basic centers… don’t sign backup centers to huge deals… don’t give away firsts to alleviate cash crunches you just caused… don’t play Forrest over JB… maybe when JB shows you some **** in preseason embrace it rather than tamp it down.

We don’t acknowledge our issues… we live in denial as an organization… we did this to ourselves… it’s our fault.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

619 is actually the best position to be in with the sex machine. If you’re the 1 in between that 6 and 9. There’s no other 1 between a 6 and a 9 so that’s actually pretty good, depending how you look at it.

Maybe we just have the one backwards… that would create an issue for sure… like if you were connecting the wrong ends of legos.

 

[infection]

From the top down of this franchise, it’s not about a different approach. It’s about continuing to do the exact same thing and hope for a different side of the dice to surface. Quin believes it’s like a game of heads or tails and there’s no reason for his players to think otherwise. No worries, just keep getting those same looks. Eventually the law of averages catches up. It’s just all chance and keep playing your same numbers.

 

[infection]

Father blows through retirement and savings with poor investment after poor investment that promise getting rich quick. His family is nearly destitute. “I’m sorry, guys. This is my fault. I take full responsibility. The next investment is really going to make us rich. Promise. I’ll do better.”

We’re really this ****ing dense and it’s amazing that nobody in the franchise can slap some sense into this reasoning.

 

[infection]

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

The Jazz still need one more guy in the closing lineup who can create his own shot and make it. Mike Conley isn't that guy anymore. Rudy Gay didn't even play tonight. So who is it going to be?