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Game 3 - Rockets @ Jazz

Anyway, the Jazz played hard tonight, and came up a little short. They need to learn some things , but as they aren't as bad as their fans here think. The defense was quite impressive tonight. There is potential to be a very good team. They lost by one basket to a team that is probably top 4 in the league, a real contender. I am wondering if they shouldn't just try to do copy Houston's style of play.
We don't have the personnel on offense to do this. Our team is well below average athletically and we don't have many guys who can create in one on one situations. Our offense was executed pretty well tonight, we just couldn't convert open looks.
 
I mean, yeah. We've seen this team shoot better than this over a much larger sample size. I'm not saying we don't desperately need more shooting. I'm just saying this is an outlier shooting slump this team is going through, and it's obviously cost us a game tonight.
I got you so much I'm answering my own questions.



Life of a Jazz fan.


Wouldn't change a God damn thing.



Unless, of course, for a championship.
 
What's worse at shooting Jazz or Storm Troopers?

Trick question, Ingles would pass up shooting then both he and Rubio turn it over and give up offensive rebounds so they don't have to shoot. So Storm Troopers win by default.
 
We don't have the personnel on offense to do this. Our team is well below average athletically and we don't have many guys who can create in one on one situations. Our offense was executed pretty well tonight, we just couldn't convert open looks.
Maybe. Maybe they would convert those open looks if they copied the Houston style of offense. Maybe they just need to find a couple more guys like Tucker and Oneil, and have them learn the Houston style of offense and commit to it for a couple years. It's not like they are starting from scratch. They already have some very good pieces.
 
Maybe. Maybe they would convert those open looks if they copied the Houston style of offense. Maybe they just need to find a couple more guys like Tucker and Oneil, and have them learn the Houston style of offense.
What, in your mind, is Houston's style of offense?
 
Houston's offense works because James Harden is one of the greatest offensive players to ever pick up a basketball and they've got a bunch of good shooters on the wings.

I don't think abandoning a system that generates the amount of open looks is the answer. The system works, we just need better shooting.
 
My choice for crucial moment of the game was Mitchell and Rubio combining to miss 5 of 6 free throws early in the 2nd half. We were up 6 at the time, so that was a great moment to be up 11. Your starting guards can't do that. Oh well.
 
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What, in your mind, is Houston's style of offense?
Having Mitchell play Harden's roll, pushing off, step back 3s, flopping, swiping for foul calls, driving into or jumping into people for foul calls until they are forced to play behind him, then driving into the lane looking to throw passes to Gobert /Favors for dunks, everybody else spotting up for 3's, but also taking 2s too when they are there, to keep the D off balance.
 
Am I the only person who thinks that the step backs Houston shoots are a travel more often that not? They take at least 3 steps on most of them, maybe 4. If these are the rules now, can the Jazz take 3 or 4 steps too, or is this only for select teams like the Rockets and Warriors? I hate the pushoffs and step back travels and flops, and drawing fouls by driving into defenders, but if the rules allow these things, then the Jazz should do them too, and demand the same treatment.


keep crying u baby lmao wah wah wah stfu
 
keep crying u baby lmao wah wah wah stfu
Seriously, they take 3 or 4 steps. How is that not a travel? If that's the rule now , then all the Jazz players should practice that step back. Do it just like Harden does. Exact same form. (or Curry)_ They'd probably raise their % like 10/15 points.
 
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