Game Thread? OKC vs. Utah

[Handlogten's Heros]

Man there must have been a card game that went wrong or some lady that got between a couple of the dudes cuz it don’t look right out there at all.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Not only G-leaguers, but rookies picked between 50-60 in the draft lol

OKC got 29 mins tonight from Luguentz Dort, a rookie who went undrafted last spring. They got 26 minutes out of Darius Bazley who is like 19 years old and who had 7 rebounds to Jeff Green's 1 rebound. They got 28 mins from Abdel Nader who was a regular in the G-league until a year or so ago.

Guys who are NBA athletes and who play their role can contribute.

 

[Archie Moses]

For being such a hyped team they've quickly turned into a team that's mediocre, frustrating and not fun to watch.

I know people say things will get going later in the season, but you'd think Synder would have figured out the importance of the whole season by now. If they do turn it around, these games are going to cost them just like they have the last few years.

 

[zyzz]

OKC got 29 mins tonight from Luguentz Dort, a rookie who went undrafted last spring. They got 26 minutes out of Darius Bazley who is like 19 years old and who had 7 rebounds to Jeff Green's 1 rebound. They got 28 mins from Abdel Nader who was a regular in the G-league until a year or so ago.

Guys who are NBA athletes and who play their role can contribute.

It's more about the state of the team. That a preseason contender is in such dire straits that people are like "maybe the 50th or 58th overall pick in last year's draft can right the ship."

 

[just because]

TB needs all the back up minutes. He’s got the size and hands to compete. Davis is just to thin for this offense. He can’t hold positions or create space for himself. He’s getting beat bad on the boards and that supposed to be his specialty. He is zero threat on the o side of the ball.

Brantley needs some of greens minutes due to rebounding. I like greens 3 pt shooting but he’s a bit of a ball stopper.

I agree with many of the other posts of Exum over Mudiay that have already been posted here.

 

[homeytennis]

All you need to do is look at the box score and look at the +- numbers for the rotation players. Then let's look at the end of the bench guys: DedEx+9, Morgan +8, Bradley +6 and NWG +6. I know it was garbage time but this tells me our regulars are not playing hard or smart or both. Sloan wouldn't put up with this. Phil Johnson wouldn't. Quin has to give playing time to the producers. He is in danger of losing the team right now. He is rewarding crappy play with minutes.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

It's more about the state of the team. That a preseason contender is in such dire straits that people are like "maybe the 50th or 58th overall pick in last year's draft can right the ship."

I get it, but I think realistically Miye Oni or JWF could replace Mudiay and do at least as well.

 

[royzzz]

It's so incredibly disappointing to see the state of the team. These huge deficits are a gigantic red flag. If we were losing but competing, and showing effort/heart it would be acceptable. This team just looks like it is bad fit basketball chemistry-wise. Seems like the players like each other, similar to last season but it's just a bad fit on the court. Before blowing it up, I think that Quin should shake up the starting 5. I might try something like starting...

Exum/Mitchell/Bogey/Green/Gobert

bench unit...

Conley/Mudiay/O'Neal/Ingles/Davis

Each unit has enough shooting and defense on paper to be serviceable to very good. At this point, we aren't beating the top 4-5 teams in the West come April so you may as well exhaust all possibilities before then and if we need to look at trading Conley, Ingles, etc. then we can address it in February.

I worried about this when Rubio and Favors left but I genuinely felt like we could outscore anyone in the league on any given night to offset the dip in defense and rebounding. I just never fathomed it would look like this a quarter of the way into the season. Conley has been a massive disappointment, and I didn't think we'd ever live in a world were we'd be begging for the return of Ricky Rubio.

While this may seem true somehow it also seem different from the previous years.

 

[homeytennis]

Spida and Bojan 33% on a ton of shots. You will probably win zero games with that.

 

[Joncolton]

Chris Paul was everything tonight that we wanted/expected Mike Conley to be for us.

Rudy's defense tonight was terrible. He never closed in on any of Chris Paul's mid range shots, even though he is definitely NEVER going to take it to the hoop. Do the Jazz not have access to shot charts? CP3 got everything exactly where he wanted it.

 

[enchilada_style]

Chris Paul was everything tonight that we wanted/expected Mike Conley to be for us.

Rudy's defense tonight was terrible. He never closed in on any of Chris Paul's mid range shots, even though he is definitely NEVER going to take it to the hoop. Do the Jazz not have access to shot charts? CP3 got everything exactly where he wanted it.

RIP Grantland

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Chris Paul was everything tonight that we wanted/expected Mike Conley to be for us.

Rudy's defense tonight was terrible. He never closed in on any of Chris Paul's mid range shots, even though he is definitely NEVER going to take it to the hoop. Do the Jazz not have access to shot charts? CP3 got everything exactly where he wanted it.

I’m officially in the go get Chris Paul camp. He’s the worst and I hate him... but go get him... think DM will keep chucking bad shots with this guy in his ear everyday. Guy runs the pick and roll like a conductor and is still solid on defense... he actually gets calls... we need that.