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

[NUMBERICA]

I might be wrong on the westbrook play but on the lebron one i was mentally yelling at gobert to close out on lebron. I knew he was shooting a three and I knew it was going in. I think everyone did. Sure it would allow lebron to get to the paint. But at least then maybe someone can challenge and make him miss. If not, 3 points is more than 2.

If it goes in.

If he drives he either goes to the line or he gets on the rim.

Sometimes you're just in a shituation.

 

[homeytennis]

Didn't the Jazz just bring in four new players? Quin you have options when certain guys stink. Use your head.

 

[outerspacefan]

I think everyone kind of figure it out what has to happen next summer.
It's just that no one wants nor like to spell it.

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[SoUjazzfan]

I'd like to see Quin take a three week sabbatical without any contact with the team and see what happens.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Jazz were up by 12 pts with 6:35 left in the game. Getting outscored by 16 points over the next 6 mins is pretty fair to call a collapse.

 

[jom2003]

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.

he's alway gonna pass up open shots and lacks aggressiveness when we needed him. at this stage of his career we just have to accept him as the player that he is. But good lord can we just cut his minutes?

He's an energy guy being asked to do too much. We shouldn't have had that much expectation on him to begin with

 

[fishonjazz]

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.

That was so so bad.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

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

I think we need a new coach, and that is more than a tweak. I'd love to see this team and how they play under different leadership.

 

[fishonjazz]

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.

This could be a scenario where working Butler in to games all season long up to this point could have paid dividends. He seems to have tools on offense.

 

[KqWIN]

Guys, subbing in this player or that player isn't going to do jack **** if you're still at a strategic disadvantage. No coach is going to be a wizard and know exactly when a worse player will outperform a better player or vice versa. You play your best guys and if they don't play well it doesn't mean playing the worse player was a more sound choice. That's hindsight 20/20. But it doesn't take a wizard to adjust to a basic trap or do the same to the other team when they only have one player surrounded by scrubs. We get taken out by the most basic of basic strategies and basically ram our head against the wall because Quin can't make his own basic adjustment.

Perfectly timing when House is going to have a better 3 minute stretch than Royce isn't a real strategy. Sending a double at LeBron when he's playing with two horrible shooters and not other scorers is a real strategy that Quin is incapable of employing.....despite the fact that the opposing team completely destroyed his offense by sending simple double teams at Mitchell. Pathetic coaching.

 

[jom2003]

quin's a brilliant coach in most areas but his reluctance to shake up his rotation during games could prove to be his downfall. i mean it's a common sense applied by most coaches. kinda weird that Quin's one of the only coaches doing it.

 

[fishonjazz]

If it goes in.

If he drives he either goes to the line or he gets on the rim.

Sometimes you're just in a shituation.

This is true. However I was certain the three was going in. And I was certain he would take the three. He didn't want to drive. He wanted to shoot the three.