homeytennis
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That was a puker of a game. No urgency in the first three quarters.
Game Thread Dec 26, 2022 06:00PM MT: Jazz at Spurs
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SoUjazzfan
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You're correct. He shouldn't have been in for that last 1:46 in the second quarter to risk his fourth.
Thee Jazz Fan
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Great tank job against a successful tanking team. This was encouraging.
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Yep. And Americans shouldn't eat at McDonald's for every meal. Whatcha gonna do?
I don't know if it was just my recording, which was the Spurs broadcast, but the camera work was so bad that I pretty much just fast forwarded to the end.
I don't know what ******* thinks that zooming in on a player who has the ball is good stuff, but **** him.
I don't know what ******* thinks that zooming in on a player who has the ball is good stuff, but **** him.
Isaiah 1:13
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That was just brilliant all the way around! That and the screened three by Lauri which gave him three free throws was just brilliant crunch time play calling by Hardy. The execution of that final dunk by Lauri was brilliantly executed by both Lauri and Mountain Mike. We were within a stone's throw of a win there, thanks also to valuable contributions down the stretch from NAW, Vando, Clarkson, Beasley and the play of the game from Sexton (behind the back pass to Vando while convincing Poeltl he was shooting).
In any event it was a tremendous effort down the stretch on what everybody can agree was a night in which we just came out flat - on the road on the day after Christmas probably had everything to do with that. What was it like 73 points in the paint by the Spurs? Wow! That's insane - Kessler must've gone overboard yesterday on the Nog or something!
I mean like everybody else, we are going to have nights like that - where we can't throw a rock in the ocean and we can't defend. (Thank God Olynyk didn't play otherwise he'd undoubtedly be the scapegoat for that crap interior defense and rebounding.) I know another tangent...stay with me though. The point I wanted to make, is why is the play-calling so exceptional when it's all but hopeless and so abysmal when we're still in the hunt?
Lauri was five for eight from two tonight and three for ten from three. He's good going to the cup. He's good using a screen to get open. He's good on the alley oop. Why in the Hell do we use him like a three and D standing behind the line for a catch and shoot all the frickin time then!
And another thing, where in the Hell was Dok with our two centers in foul trouble and largely ineffective (rhetorical question)! Believe me or don't, but Dok was instrumental in turning the tide of momentum in Detroit with his killer screens and rebounding! Kessler had four boards and no blocks and Vando had five boards and no blocks. And yeah I know that a player in foul trouble can't defend as effectively! Which is precisely why Dok should have gotten some early minutes - to spell Kessler and possibly Vando and also to see if he could help us where the other two couldn't.
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Isaiah 1:13
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But not nearly as bad as his partner in crime in the Golden State heist!!! Frickin Fontechio has become almost unplayable it seems.
Isaiah 1:13
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I think we may have witnessed Hardy's Achilles Heel tonight - his temper! After that second technical he was just seething, unable to let it go. Everybody knows, or at least should know, that you're more liable to make a serious mistake when you're upset.
i think the last play was terrible. Beasley was struggling all night 2/11 from 3 and he still went with him. could've just screened hard for mike. but that shot was in and out crazy