Game Thread Feb 16, 2022 08:00PM MT: Jazz at Lakers

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Also that Royce turnover, where he couldn't get the shot off, didn't drive the ball and just threw it away to Malik Monk was pretty bad. This is what I'm saying with him. In a tight game, that put the Jazz behind the 8-ball.

 

[homeytennis]

You notice how one player was killing the Lakers? Yeah, they ran a simple trap at him and it completely neutered the entire offense. We did nothing to change or take advantage of that defense. Just let it happen. Don was completely taken out of the game in the 4th by one adjustment. The Jazz are playing with 3 shooters and the best rim presence in the league, and we can't figure out how to score when they send a double team at Don? Pathetic.

You notice how one player was killing the Jazz? The Jazz didn't do ****. We were completely scrambled and couldn't get the ball out of the hands of the one player that was scoring. The Lakers were out there with 2 non shooters, and we couldn't find a way to double or make things difficult on LeBron? LeBron is playing with WB, Monk, THT, and Reaves. Are you kidding me?

Yeah, there's a reason why we completely suck year after year in the clutch. It's the same reason why we suck badly in the playoffs and especially bad later in the series. Game goes off script, Quin is a ****ing robot who can't make a change. The last time we blew it against the Lakers is because we couldn't stop Stanley ****ing Johnson running a PnR as the ball handler. It's embarrassing that Quin can let this happen to him for years and not get better. He gets embarrassed by any coach with half a brain.

But the system. We will eventually regress to the mean and the system will magically work.

 

[jom2003]

i don't blame the personnel anymore since we clearly have options from the bench. It was terrible coaching and rotation that's holding us back right now. Yes we probably still won't win anything if we bring in a different coach, but we can certainly avoid those embarrassing meltdown had we had a coach who's more flexible with his rotation and more aware of the situation during games.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Or a coach willing or able to find one

Yeah but to be fair, no one besides Mitchell had it going at all tonight. Like, even decent looks when everyone's playing sub-par aren't decent looks anymore.

I don't know. I really don't know. It just felt like the game was over when the Jazz were still up 10 and the Lakers started getting it going. I don't think it's that the Jazz are soft, per se, it's that they are mentally fragile in the clutch. They just look so overwhelmed against the Lakers on the road specifically when the clutch rolls in.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Sadly, I hope it is, as it may be the only way to get ownership/management to blow **** up.

I think it is mostly on Quin, but either way, something needs to change.

I don't think we need to blow it up. I think we need a couple tweaks.

 

[KqWIN]

You mean Lebron at the 5? What's this team's answer?

It doesn't matter, because they have two guys who can't make a wide open jump shot. THT and RWB are two of the most useless players on the court standing behind the arc, they might as well be Centers. Everyone knows this and it's the main reason why the Lakers are a bad team.

Seriously, watch any two plays in a row. Don run's pick and roll, the Lakers trap him and get the ball out of his hands. The Jazz switch it and leave whoever on an island with LeBron James 1v1....essentially giving him any matchup he wants with little help defense until it's too late. Just two possessions in a row and you will see the difference in strategy.

 

[Avery]

I don’t think Quin is the right coach for this team quite honestly. This ain’t 2015.

Unless the playoffs show otherwise, we can’t run it back again and expect different results.

 

[jom2003]

I love how Andy's not afraid to tell it like it is.

i don't blame Gobert/Mike/Royce since fans should've known the type of players they are by now. Rudy still dealing with an injury too. But coach's refusal to take them out when we clearly have better option/performer off the bench is what cost us the game.

 

[Jingled]

It says a lot when even Tony's willing to admit this was a bad performance.

 

[SoUjazzfan]

For context Royce was 4-6 with 10 points, 7 boards, three steals and a block. This loss isn't on his one bonehead turnover at the end, this is on the whole team and coach minus maybe Don. I know Royce is scapegoat around here but he only owns a small portion of the blame.

 

[KqWIN]

I completely reject this idea of "LeBron gonna be LeBron" when the Lakers cleanly took Mitchell out of the game with strategy and the Jazz didn't do jack **** to do the same against LeBron when he was playing with a garbage time level crew.

 

[jom2003]

It says a lot when even Tony's willing to admit this was a bad performance.

he does that every time without ever calling any one out.