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Game 3 WCSF: Thank you, Kobe! — Rockets @ Jazz 5/4/2018 8:30 pm MST

Ellipse said:
That was the one thing I disagreed with in Kobe's analysis. Kobe said that Mitchell needed to go straight up the defender's chest when he's in the restricted area -- well, what works for a 6'6" Kobe doesn't necessarily work for a 6'3" Mitchell. The spin and evasive, long-reach-for-the-backboard layup is one of DM's signature plays; Kobe basically told Mitchell to forget that move.

Now Mitchell needs to unlearn what Kobe told him to do.
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Exactly. Its so stupid. Mitchell is unique and had some pretty cool moves figured out. Now he just wants to run into defenders because Kobe told him to.

Mitchell even said that he went to sleep listening to it to try and absorb it. So you know he is really thinking about it.

Just be you Mitchell.
 
This blow out may be a blessing in the long run. I noticed in the OKC series, and continue in this one, they are playing DM differently now. They collapse into the paint and try to stay in front of him more with long defenders and take away the lob outlet. Abrines had several good sequences against him and now Ariza is working it. There is no doubt in my mind that DM takes this stuff personally, and knowing how dedicated he is, I believe he will work his butt off in the OS to correct this with a counter move. He will grow from this $$$ kicking.
 
Stars Fan said:
This blow out may be a blessing in the long run. I noticed in the OKC series, and continue in this one, they are playing DM differently now. They collapse into the paint and try to stay in front of him more with long defenders and take away the lob outlet. Abrines had several good sequences against him and now Ariza is working it. There is no doubt in my mind that DM takes this stuff personally, and knowing how dedicated he is, I believe he will work his butt off in the OS to correct this with a counter move. He will grow from this $$$ kicking.
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Noticed that to, and I give the Rockets credit for it. There is a reason they are a 65 win team. I think the same will apply to Rudy too as he's been exposed some, though not as bad as against GSW last year.

The team is also missing Rubio badly. Game two needed another record from DM (franchise rookie ast record), an unconscious Ingles, and abnormally high FG% to win. For what faults he did have, he was so stabilizing in the second half of the season. Even if he wasn't overly fantastic from the field in the OKC series, he still initiated the offense, was nice on D, and automatic from the FT line. To me anyway, it's clear we're missing him. I love DM. He most definitely can pull PG duties when needed in a pinch, but we some legitimate depth there. This is probably me and it's not likely to be popular, but platooning Neto and X isn't going to get this done long term and I don't want to put so much pressure on DM. Even if he is only a rookie, he needs some help in the backcourt. Royce does well in a pinch and want to keep him for a while. But Ricky is going to miss games here and there. We need some answer for that.
 
I woke up this morning feeling sad about last night's game. Can't imagine how our players feel.

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We got smacked by a team that's equipped to beat Golden State. Honestly, the chance that we would win this series was low and is even lower with no Rubio. At least we won't be swept like last year.
 
I'm not actually sad. This team is learning as they go and they learned some valuable lessons last night. Quin is a tremendous between-game adjustment coach and will rectify what needs to be done. This is the number one team in the league we're facing and we've done better this year than I could have possibly imagined. Where we hurting so badly at the beginning of the year, this team nutted up and pulled off a miracle. We're better than what we played last night. We've injuries and were embarrassed in our backyard. The team's leaders will need to step up and show it was an aberration rather than the state of things. It's time to kick Houston in the jimmy for doing it to us.

It's clear the Jazz do have needs, but they aren't overly huge ones. Even if this proves to be the end of the series, what this team accomplished was nothing short of amazing. There is a ton of foundation to build on and, going forward, Utah will be going supernova in all the right ways in the years to come.
 
Siro said:
Thanks for ruining our boi Kobe!
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If anything DM stopped listening to Kobe's advice for this game. He started driving from nearly half court again, he continued to try scoop layups instead of putting his body into the defenders and forcing the refs to make a call, etc.
 
Obviously you have to give HOU credit for coming out and playing very very well, the Jazz would've had to play great to win with how HOU came out. However the Jazz came out like they were reading all the nice things the national sports writers and Sport shows said about them.

I kept waiting for the Jazz to counter but Mitchell and Ingles both completely blew *** chunks so many bad decisions and turnovers, no ball movement, now player movement no anything of any kind that resembled them being ready to play, this would've been a poor effort in terms of being mentally ready in the regular season. For the playoffs it is all but inexcusable for a team like the Jazz that can't out talent any team in the playoffs and has to play and use the team to score.

Watching Mitchell and Ingles was like they only had 1 option and that was the only 1 thing they were ever going to do, HOU was overplaying that 1 thing and no one countered, moved off the ball or anything just ugly offense made it ssssooooo easy for HOU that they didn't even have to really try offensively. The Jazz' "offense" gifted them so many easy points and not that the Jazz had much of a chance to win the series but they didn't make the HOU offense work to beat them and HOU's offense is good enough and due to do so in this series so making it even less likely that they'll be able pull off another win, unless HOU gets overconfident and flat again.
 
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