Game Thread Dec 31, 2020 7:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Suns

[homeytennis]

You’re not going to win many games when your 4 SFs go:

5-20 16 pts in 102 mins
Favors alone gave us 10 pts in 14 mins and his role isn’t to shoot and score.

I don’t know why Hughes isn’t playing more. Especially if Bojan isn’t right.

Starting guards shot 38% for us tonight and they were chucking away.

 

[LogGrad98]

Size, shooting and toughness. The Jazz need more of it.

And perimeter defense, good coaching, consistent effort, coherent game plans, in-game adjustments, reduced turnovers, etc. etc.

 

[MCarter]

Whatever. Our future is a kid who grew up wealthy and is now rich. Not sure how much intrinsic drive he’ll now have.

Stupidest **** I’ve ever heard. Dude obviously made it to the nba with some real hard work. Seems very intelligent as well.

 

[SteakNEggs]

*soft*

 

[infection]

Alright, every coach has their weaknesses and all, but these consistent struggles where we have these inexplicable mental funks, at some point this has to fall on the coach, where he has to be dynamic enough to recognize this and find ways to navigate out of ********* like this. It can just be on the players. He played 8 guys tonight, sans Niang’s 6 minutes. Odds that tomorrow’s rotation looks like tonight’s, with dead legs? High.

 

[homeytennis]

Resign NWG.

 

[SoUjazzfan]

This game pretty well sums up 2020, just an ugly, rotten year.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It’s the decision making that has me worried on DM. I can see him thinking.... nothing seems natural or easy right now. I can almost stop the game and tell you when he will just try a straight line drive instead of using change in speed or pace. When he shoots the pull-up three it seems forced instead of rhythmic.

Bojan being garbage after the surgery makes sense. He gets some time to figure it out. DM should not be this bad. We are not asking him to do anything that is a whole lot different than we asked last year.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Resign NWG.

We already resigned his ***... shouts to @FAILED STATE

 

[Miggs]

Stupidest **** I’ve ever heard. Dude obviously made it to the nba with some real hard work. Seems very intelligent as well.

He would.

 

[fishonjazz]

We're going to continue to be a terrible team as long as Bogey and Mitchell continue to be terrible. Luckily, I don't think they are actually terrible players. But there's no mistaking their performance so far this season. Complete disasters on both ends.

Agreed. I believe in both of them so I expect the team to have a great season.

 

[KqWIN]

It’s the decision making that has me worried on DM. I can see him thinking.... nothing seems natural or easy right now. I can almost stop the game and tell you when he will just try a straight line drive instead of using change in speed or pace. When he shoots the pull-up three it seems forced instead of rhythmic.

Bojan being garbage after the surgery makes sense. He gets some time to figure it out. DM should not be this bad. We are not asking him to do anything that is a whole lot different than we asked last year.

He's playing so deliberate, but in the worse way possible. Like you said, he's telegraphing what he wants to do on every possession. Even when he gets off a clean pull up or drive, he was hunting for and tunneling on it for the whole possession. It's the least "smooth" basketball I've seen in a while.

It doesn't help that opposing teams have been laser beams for three...but this team really should be a much better offensive team than they have been.