Game Thread: Jazz at Raptors, any minute now

[Revolution 9]

This team has been a major disappointment so far. I still think we'll go on a big run this year, but out flaws have been exposed.

It's hard to put a finger on what would fix the issue. I feel like it involves Rubio, and Favors though.

Mostly Im just embarrassed. Ive been bragging and hyping up this team on the army base I work on all off season. At the gym, with co workers, and any time basketball was being discussed. I talked smack to Lakers fans who thought they would be better than us. I laughed. Now they are laughing. I want it to stop.
I bought tons of Jazz gear, and told everyone to watch out this year for us. Sigh.

 

[Shad]

Here's a great stat for all of us. The Jazz shot 10 free throws in the second half. Wanna know how many the Raptors shot? 30.

 

[Revolution 9]

i think leonard stays in toronto

if he comes back to the West we are screwed.

 

[utahjazzz]

The Wade comparison is unfair to Mitchell. He will never be as good. People have to lower their expectations

mitchell is overrated.

 

[Revolution 9]

The magic just hasnt been here this season...

 

[yamers]

the magic wasnt there last season until the schedule got better, im still holding onto hope.

 

[Et tu Brute]

We lost this game because the referees. The 3rd quarter was an absolute joke. Hell, there were phantom calls over the 4th too.

The NBA is a joke

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This is the first time I have ever complained about refs.

But there were so many late late late calls from refs wanting the ball to drop in for the Raptors - and when they saw it wasn't - blew the whistle. Horrendous!!

And apparently Monroe never fouls.

 

[Et tu Brute]

Rubio outplayed Exum and he went against starters. I dont know what game yall are watching.

Eh?
I haven't read all this thread but is this a bit reactionary?
Both were really quite effective I thought. It was super frustrating seeing Exum miss a lot at the rim cause he created better looks for himself than anyone on the team I thought.

 

[Et tu Brute]

Rubio outplayed Exum and he went against starters. I dont know what game yall are watching.

VanVleet is not a starter. Powell and Wright are more explosive and aggressive

 

[Et tu Brute]

All of the guards were bad tonight. Rubio played much better in the 2nd half but his 1st half wasn't good at all, Exum was kinda the reverse with a decent 1st half and bad 2nd half, and Mitchell is struggling in general.

Jazz were 9/32 from deep

Kawhi had a career night and Siakam played really well.

Refs were garbage 3rd quarter

Too vague assessment. Rubio and Exum both cut up the Raptors.... missed a bunch of shots. Mitchell remains the focus of the opponents and he missed a couple of great looks early which hurt his mojo... The opposing guards did nothing to hurt the Jazz tonight.

 

[Sugarless]

Everybody needs to step up right now. Mitchell and Rubio need to do better and stop forcing shots that are not there. Ingles needs to do exactly the opposite, he needs to take his head out of his *** and start shooting the damn ball instead of being so freaking passive. Rudy needs to work on a single offensive move for the first time in his career and at the very least try to go hard against his defender and force some fouls even though he's a bad FT shooter. Bench guys like O'Neale, Thabo and Korver really need to bring more to the table. And most of all, Quin has to think twice about his offense and look for a different approach, try to run different sets, stop with the endless handoffs that make the game so sluggish for an already limited offense and rely more on his PG who's always excelled at running the team and finding the open guy for easy shots. It also wouldn't hurt to try to dump the ball into the post from time to time to help open the floor and get the shooters some extra tenths of a second: use Gobert AND Favors in different ways instead of limiting them and the offense so much, there's no reason for the Jazz to be dead last in the league with a ridiculous 2.6 post ups per game (the Spurs lead with 19.4) and 1 single point per game (!) on those plays, when they have two bigs on the floor so many minutes and the rest is not working.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Everybody needs to step up right now. Mitchell and Rubio need to do better and stop forcing shots that are not there. Ingles needs to do exactly the opposite, he needs to take his head out of his *** and start shooting the damn ball instead of being so freaking passive. Rudy needs to work on a single offensive move for the first time in his career and at the very least try to go hard against his defender and force some fouls even though he's a bad FT shooter. Bench guys like O'Neale, Thabo and Korver really need to bring more to the table. And most of all, Quin has to think twice about his offense and look for a different approach, try to run different sets, stop with the endless handoffs that make the game so sluggish for an already limited offense and rely more on his PG who's always excelled at running the team and finding the open guy for easy shots. It also wouldn't hurt to try to dump the ball into the post from time to time to help open the floor and get the shooters some extra tenths of a second: use Gobert AND Favors in different ways instead of limiting them and the offense so much, there's no reason for the Jazz to be dead last in the league with a ridiculous 2.6 post ups per game (the Spurs lead with 19.4) and 1 single point per game (!) on those plays, when they have two bigs on the floor so many minutes and the rest is not working.

I think you’d really do yourself a service by changing your profile from sugarless to “Clueless”