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Biggest Reason We Lost?

Thee jazz fan said:
Your usually pretty right on the money with your posts, but I have to disagree with you on this...

Even if Hayward had shot the ball well it well we still get beat 4-0.

Al sucked, and got manhandled by Duncan

Millsap was nowhere to be seen, and even got manhandled by the likes of Boris Diaw, quite pathetic actually. I'm surprised he's getting more of a pass for how he played in the series.

Favors performed as I expected him too. He played well at times, impacting the games with his defense and making some plays here and there on offense, but also making mistakes as young players often do.

Howard, yuk!! Nuff said there.

Burks didn't play very good defense. (See Favors for everything else.

Corbin why didn't you start Carroll. He shouldve played more.

Even if Hayward had been in peak form, we still get our asses handed to us. Tell me if I miss read your post, but it sounds like you put most of the blame on Hayward. I feel most of the blame should be on Al, Millsap, and Corbin, then Hayward, and Harris.
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So which one of these was the biggest reasons we got swept? This wasn't meant to be the only reason, just whatever you thought was the biggest contributing factor.

Hayward scoring 0 points in a game we lost by 7 doesn't make a difference? His shooting would have helped spread the floor if he was shooting his 40%+ from deep he had been doing for the past two months.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
So which one of these was the biggest reasons we got swept? This wasn't meant to be the only reason, just whatever you thought was the biggest contributing factor.

Hayward scoring 0 points in a game we lost by 7 doesn't make a difference? His shooting would have helped spread the floor if he was shooting his 40%+ from deep he had been doing for the past two months.
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Did Hayward even play the 4th quarter. I know he didn't play during the big 4th quarter run. If I recall Hayward Shot 12 foul shots, yes he didn't play well in that game, but was the best player we had in that game, and still lost by double digits, and even if he plays well in the last game and win we still don't win the series.

No one played well enough to put the most blame on any one player.
 
biggest reason we lost?

maybe because they are one of the best teams in the league, and we barely made playoffs , thats why
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
The Spurs did a better job of playing defense. They just packed the paint and held their arms straight up. Parker got a couple of questionable calls, but for the most part it as even. Stop whining.
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So , to be clear, nothing I said was incorrect, and what hippo said was incorrect, and you don't dispute that , you just don't want to hear me say it.
 
I was pretty impressed with Harris and Favors the last two games, and also pleased with Carroll's hustle.

I think that this team is not as far away from being able to beat a team like the Spurs as most people say.

Some adjustments need to be made, and some improvements in basic skills, like scoring first and foremost, nothing that can't be learned.
 
There's about 8-10 people in this thread that posted "we lost because they were the better team. nothing we could have done could have won us a game or the series" or something to that effect.

I'm so glad you guys are not players on this team—a player would never concede while the series is going that the other team is simply more dominant than them and that there is nothing they or the team can do to win. Oh wait... our "best" player according to some of you said just that!

Umm..the Spurs are not the Avengers. They're not superheroes. They're people just like everyone else. The second you start thinking that someone is better than you, you've already lost.

Again, this is a forum and I understand the lazy, easy way to explain things, is "they're just better than us, derp." and obviously our opinions really don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But, really, the Spurs players individually were NOT better players than the Jazz players. That's stupid. These guys are all pros and they all make money playing basketball. They should all be virtually the same...it's preparation (ie. practice) and will that makes someone better than the other person individually and as a team.

This team was prepared for ****! The Spurs were prepared to win. That's not because the Spurs had better players, it's that they had better leaders and coaches telling them how and what to do, and they had confidence that no matter what the Jazz tried to do, they were going to stop them. That's really all the Jazz needed ...and that comes from the top down.

TL;DR = Ty's and idiot. and Jefferson is a stat-padding, me-first player with a loser mentality and will never figure out how to be a winner unless he starts trying RIGHT NOW.
 
Spurs adjusted perfectly offensively to whatever we did defensively. Very fluid, perfectly willing to take an outside shot when inside shots were defended. We tend to try to force it inside, NOT ever looking comfortable in shooting a jump shot. They are an EXCELLENT team at keeping their dribbles alive, while we are not, which stagnates our offense. Give them credit; they are a SMART, talented team, likely to win it all if they stay healthy.
 
fallenchicken said:
We lost because we did not play Raja Bell.
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LOL; at least HE thinks so!
Oh, and CJ didn't 'understand' coach Ty. All this shows is coach Ty had more confidence in Alec Burks than either of these two as far as possibly helping to beat this very good Spurs team...
 
Biggest reason we lost? They were better. We can nitpick individual match-ups and coaching decisions and yes I think we should have won a game or two, but in the end it is as simple as "they were better".
 
Passing.

I am amazed at the total lack of passing fundamentals by every member of this team. Every single pass, both in the series and the regular season, was either a lazy floater wearing a "Steal Me" sign -- that even if it got to its intended target, arrived too late to be effective -- or a bounce pass that hit the player below his knees. I kept wondering if my memories of the Jazz's crisp passing during the Stockton and Malone glory years were figments of my imagination. And then I watched the Spurs demolish the Jazz with their passing game and I knew nothing was wrong with my memory.

I blame this on the coaching staff -- it's a fundamental flaw in their game that the coaches should have fixed.
 
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