Game Thread August 30, 2020: Nuggets at Jazz - Game 6

[l Abach l]

Jazz dug their grave when they extended Ingles till the age of 35, bogey till the age of 34, and traded for a 32 yr old Conley. We had a 22 year old superstar and... we went and got older? It was asinine. What the **** were Lindsay and Snyder thinking?

Look at what Denver did. They aligned the roster age to Jokic and Murray. Look at all of these young teams. And here we are peddling out unathletic old players.

 

[AlaskanAssassin]

Two questions.

1. A healthy Jazz team last year, with Favors, Rubio, and Crowder, what would this series be?

2. A healthy Bojan, what would this series be?

Maybe 3 questions actually.

I miss Rubio. I wish we could have seen this team with Bojan instead of Favors, but keeping Rubio instead of Conley. I think that is a much better balance of Offense / Defense with enough shooting. Rubio definitely wouldn't be letting Murray go off like this.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Does Niang have something on Snyder? No one in their right mind would play that bum in the fourth quarter of a playoff game.

It's because the Jazz have to get a ton of 3's up to win and with Ingles/Royce being scared to shoot, the Jazz need as many shooters on the court as possible so when Mitchell/Clarkson/Conley drive they have passing outlets that can actually put up a shot attempt.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

It's because the Jazz have to get a ton of 3's up to win and with Ingles/Royce being scared to shoot, the Jazz need as many shooters on the court as possible so when Mitchell/Clarkson/Conley drive they have passing outlets that can actually put up a shot attempt.

You know Morgan should be getting those minutes.

Dude needs 20 minutes minimum in tomorrows game.

 

[l Abach l]

You know Morgan should be getting those minutes.

Dude needs 20 minutes minimum in tomorrows game.

That would make too much sense. Snyder won't do that.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

You know Morgan should be getting those minutes.

Dude needs 20 minutes minimum in tomorrows game.

I don't know lmao. It's a trade off either way and I don't think it's very obvious which is the right choice.

The Jazz offense needs shooters to work and dudes like Ingles/Royce just arent shooting as much as they should be. Morgan's defense hasnt been anything special. His best attribute in the series has been 50/50 balls. It's that vs the offensive flow Niang brings to the game.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Win or lose I'm not sure what we do... some nominal bench improvements would help but we have some wonky things with the big pieces we have chosen to ride with. Ultimately not viewing DM as more of a pg is where we may have strayed.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Like, I love Juwan and think he's has potential, but he's shooting 11% from the field and 10% from 3 (1/8 with a lot of ugly misses).

He might be better in some instances than Niang, but I don't think it's some super obvious call. The Jazz have been winning games by overwhelming Denver with spacing and driving, not defense.

I wish he got more minutes during the regular season so he would be more acclimated to the PF offensive role in Utah's offense, but it is what it is.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Win or lose I'm not sure what we do... some nominal bench improvements would help but we have some wonky things with the big pieces we have chosen to ride with. Ultimately not viewing DM as more of a pg is where we may have strayed.

Lmao what?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Niang wasn't the issue last night. He just missed two shots at unfortunate times. He had one bad rebounding foul, but he was competing. Tony has given us a big fat zero. Niang's -19 had more to do with other guys than him. JC was -24 yeesh. It did suck that Niang missed one and Grant hit one in that sequence near the end of the game... if those things are flip flopped we are down 4 instead of down 10.

Rudy wasn't very good either. We broke away from the normal offensive game plan so he wasn't really in his element.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Lmao what?

I think we should have built under the thinking that DM is more of a PG and we should get bigger guards and wings to pair with him. We are two small on the outside to build a dominant defense.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Niang wasn't the issue last night. He just missed two shots at unfortunate times. He had one bad rebounding foul, but he was competing. Tony has given us a big fat zero. Niang's -19 had more to do with other guys than him. JC was -24 yeesh. It did suck that Niang missed one and Grant hit one in that sequence near the end of the game... if those things are flip flopped we are down 4 instead of down 10.

Rudy wasn't very good either. We broke away from the normal offensive game plan so he wasn't really in his element.

Yeah, if the argument is Morgan needs to get TB's 10 mpg, then sure. But even then I still worry about Denver just dominating the paint against us in that case. TB fugging sucks on offense, but he at least presents an obstacle to score over in the paint.