Game Thread Dec 26, 2020: Jazz vs. Wolves

[str8line]

Edwards looks like a legit baller. Kudos to the wolves for selecting him.


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I'd trade Donovan for Edwards right now. He looks that good.

 

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[Jazz54016]

can score from outside, attacks the rim, dishes like a pg, gets his own rebounds. Without him on the court yesterday I felt good - when he’s on the court for the wolves they’re a different team. I know he’s not the same player, but little things he does I also see Brantley do. I’d like to get him some more pt but who knows.... he needs to clean up his mistakes for sure.


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[homeytennis]

Bryce Cotton once scored 21 for the Jazz.

 

[NUMBERICA]

and here is the problem that will eventually make our dreams fall short.

too much time for Royce and Ingles. It's not that they are bad players its how they are used.
Its like when Favors was here before. Good player, but we were always limited with him as our starter.
Now in this backup role he's great.

Ingles and Royce aren't bad players. They make plays, have good games, etc. But they have this huge role on the team, and just
aren't good enough. Royce hustles, that's not the issue. He's undersized, inconsistent shooter, and gets destroyed on screens.

Last night Royce did make some positive plays, some awesome plays really (in a night of not many), but he got beat so many times on defence it
really just negates his impact.

You’re completely up your own ***.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Tough loss. Timberwolves played really well and the Jazz’s shots weren’t falling. Despite that and just not having it going as a team (which happens), the Jazz had a chance to win at the end. For Christ’s sake, our incumbent leading scorer couldn’t get anything going until the last two minutes of the game and the Jazz still could’ve won.

There are times to feel doomed, this ain’t one of them, IMO.

I will say: Clarkson needs to make a better effort at moving the ball when he’s not playing among scrubs and Ingles should’ve been the inbounder on the final play.

 

[NUMBERICA]

One of my pet peeves is when a player gets in some foul trouble and the coach limits the amount of playing time for the player. The player never ends up fouling out therefore the coach limits how much the player get to play much more than the foul trouble actually does.
Let them foul out. So be it. Then you know for certain that they played as much as possible. Gobert only has 22 minutes with 6 minutes left in the game. Thats not enough minutes. He is a postive in the plus/minus in a game we are losing.
He should have played more but Quin stopped that from happening, not the fouls.

Except that foul trouble itself changes the way players play, especially defensively. And you want to have your best players if/when you’re in a possession-by-possession finish to a game.

 

[NUMBERICA]

You wanna talk about people with no mid range? That's Royce. He only shot 6 shots last season that weren't dunks, layups, or 3 pointers

Bojan just has no mid range game. It's always been a weakness of his whether it be turning it over or throwing up a brick of a floater.

You must have missed the common knowledge that:
-mid-range shots are the worst shots in basketball, subsequently,
-the Jazz try not to shoot them

 

[NUMBERICA]

I'd trade Donovan for Edwards right now. He looks that good.

What makes Donovan special isn’t his ability to score, it’s that he’s a leader which Edwards will never be. The Timberwolves are perennially losers oozing with talent and he fits that MO more than just about any player I can think of.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Dallas scares me so much more than denver, portland, or the Clippers. Look at what Dallas is doing to the clippers at the half. They have the athleticism and shooting to do to us what we did to Portland on opening night.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Yeah, 68 points in a half is pretty ridiculous. Especially when you have Rudy. The rest of the team failed.

Don’t you think our shooting and turnovers contributed to our “poor defensive effort?” It’s hard to set your defense or have rudy anchor it when bricks and turnovers fuel quick and easy buckets.