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

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

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

House should get 28 minutes, Nickeil should get 12 minutes, Royce should get 8 minutes. Or give Royce's minutes to Rudy Gay to see if he has it.

 

[Nate505]

It's astonishing how big a group of chokers these guys are. I've never seen anything quite like it in my life.

 

[Jingled]

I hope Quin isn't stupid enough to actually let him play.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Dan Clayton and Ben Dowsett are going at each other on twitter, if nothing else. So I guess there’s that.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

Im looking forward to Celtic v St Johnston tonight after the Crowded House gig.

Lucky you!

 

[Deleted member 365]

Whoa

 

[Jingled]

Bridges is a hell of a player...one of the best wing defenders in the league and really underrated on offense. He was huge down the stretch tonight. Imagine if we had someone like that in our starting lineup instead of Royce.

 

[Deleted member 365]

We scored 13 pts that entire 4th quarter. And gave up 36…

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

Well he does get pretty dim right before the sun comes up.

Hold on just a minute there LogGrad, it’s one thing to call him a choke artist but a dimwit too?

 

[Deleted member 365]

Bridges is a hell of a player...one of the best wing defenders in the league and really underrated on offense. he was huge down the stretch tonight. Imagine if we had someone like that in our starting lineup instead of Royce.

We could’ve drafted Bane and Herb Jones. Drafted Doka and butler instead. Whoops

 

[Jingled]

From Andy Larsen's 'Tripple Team'

Fans, I have some bad news. Mitchell did not regret his approach in his postgame press conference. When asked about what he thinks he can do better in this situation?

“Make shots,” Mitchell said. “The same shots you all may consider tough are the ones I’ve been repping all summer, all year, so I work to take those shots in those moments. I just gotta go out and hit them, there’s no other formula to it.”

There are many other formulas, Donovan. You can flow the offense away from the Defensive Player of the Year candidate, Bridges. You can use screens more effectively. You can find teammates in pick and roll situations. You can get the ball moving, so that when it comes back to you, you’re not attacking a set defense. There are many other ways of scoring besides the iso midrange hero ball that you are currently favoring.

Mitchell did say this, at the end of the press conference: “Fans, stay with us. I promise you we’ll be all right.” But fans aren’t worried whether or not Mitchell has enough self-belief — rather, it’s the opposite.

Obviously, the loss overwhelms everything. Unfortunately, the team has a general tendency to blame only the wrong reasons for their own failings. It’s not just Donovan: they’re blaming each other, the media, their shotmaking, the schedule, injuries, and so on when in reality the biggest problem is their approach to the game late.

Even Quin Snyder went on a 19-minute rant this week about how our narratives about them losing 4th quarter leads was irresponsible! Sigh. Given their inability to diagnose the problem, I don’t have an especially optimistic forecast about them turning the losing around.

 

[MTS]

Man, for the longest time I was such a staunch supporter of Quin.

To hear him try to sweep the clutch issues under the rug, coupled with the knowledge that he's enabled Donovan to tank our offense in the clutch regularly with zero intention of correcting it, kinda makes me wonder if I've been overrating him in my mind this whole time because he sounds smart and the players seem to love him.