Game Thread Dec 28, 2023 06:00PM MT: Jazz at Pelicans

[underdog]

Yurt7. Luka, Tay Henny, Brice and the three two ways got zero minutes tonight.

I do feel Hardy should start giving Hendricks more playing time. He can shoot that 3 and can defend too. Also, I loved to see Brice play a bit. Just to see how he would look out there.

 

[fishonjazz]

This season just makes last season more annoying

Should have traded KO and Conley ASAP.
Kessler and Ochai should have been getting minutes and lots of them all season and taking their lumps while developing and figuring things out and trying stuff.
I maintain that Sexton was originally the main acquisition for us in the Donovan trade. We should have gave him major minutes from day one. Let him play hella minutes with Lauri and build chemistry

We would have got 2 better draft picks (we don't trade Conley to ****ing Minnesota in this scenario) and Sexton, Ochai and Kessler would be further along and getting big minutes again this year which would actually help us win now.

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[str8line]

By the looks of the box score it looks like another impressive game from Sexton. 0 TO's too. He's really turned it around.

 

[str8line]

Keyonte 1-7 FG? Ouch.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Key was rough tonight… JC was gawd awful. Sexton continues his strong play. Had a few really bad defensive moments but wasn’t a great defensive night from anyone really.

Pretty meh game after the first. We really gotta make some deals and play the youngsters and actually ask them to do stuff. Key was so passive tonight he needs to be looking to attack out of actions and not just run the three man weave.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Keyonte 1-7 FG? Ouch.

In his defense one was a heave. He’s just not hitting the outside shot as much as you’d hope. Only his second game back but there’s some evidence building that his shot isn’t as good as many of us think it should be.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Key was rough tonight… JC was gawd awful. Sexton continues his strong play. Had a few really bad defensive moments but wasn’t a great defensive night from anyone really.

Pretty meh game after the first. We really gotta make some deals and play the youngsters and actually ask them to do stuff. Key was so passive tonight he needs to be looking to attack out of actions and not just run the three man weave.

I think we need to pump the breaks on Keyonte a little. He has been really bad shooting the ball. 49.0 TS% which would be worst in the entire league if he met the qualifier.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I think we need to pump the breaks on Keyonte a little. He has been really bad shooting the ball. 49.0 TS% which would be worst in the entire league if he met the qualifier.

I keep thinking the catch and shoot percentage will climb but it’s not.

 

[str8line]

In his defense one was a heave. He’s just not hitting the outside shot as much as you’d hope. Only his second game back but there’s some evidence building that his shot isn’t as good as many of us think it should be.

Too bad because he's a really good facilitator.

 

[Moonlight Graham]

A bunch of things went wrong tonight and we were still within a couple 50/50 balls of beating a solid team on the road. Would have liked to see more minutes for Kessler and fewer for Clarkson. Also, THT should have gotten some first half minutes to help him get in rhythm. It wasn't Hardy's best night by a long shot, but overall not a bad loss.

 

[jom2003]

I think we need to pump the breaks on Keyonte a little. He has been really bad shooting the ball. 49.0 TS% which would be worst in the entire league if he met the qualifier.

We should've done this a few games back. You think it was a coincident that we are 4-2 in the 6 games he's missed? Forget about the poor shooting. His poor defense alone was enough to cost us games.

 

[HermanG]

I think that was a pretty decent game considering its the last of a 5 game road trip. Definitely had a chance to win but came up short due to a number of things.

• We dominated the offensive glass and used our strenghts to perfection to compensate for a bad shooting night.
• Clarkson, Keyonte and Tech all had rough games for various different reasons. Clarkson had by far the biggest negative impact of them and like half of his touches in the half-court lead to either turnovers or his own missed shots. Tech was fouling everything and Keyonte wasnt hitting anything.
• Lauri struggled hitting his shots but he was great on the offensive boards and had another promising 5 assist game (2nd time in 3 games!).

All in all mainly a positive display on the road against a playoff caliber team. We could have taken this simply without Clarksons turnovers or with Lauri, JC and Keyonte hitting their shots at a more decent rate.