GAMETHREAD: Jazz hosting Warriors - 1/13 7pm (mst) ROOT

[Hekate]

Even Favors had a lot of defensive lapses today. Not much you can do when you play GSW.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Cy, you just need to lower expectations for Kanter. I've found myself to be much more mellow (#mmm) after accepting the fact that he'll always suck at defense, and always be bad at passing.

Just chill, bro.

Had the Jazz been able to force the Warriors to play any halfcourt offense in the 2nd half, we probably would have seen them mercilessly pick apart Kanter. Instead, they got up in our grill, made us take ****ty shots, rebounded the basketball, and ran to the other end of the court for easy buckets.

I'll chill my weiner in your mouth.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Even Favors had a lot of defensive lapses today. Not much you can do when you play GSW.

Nah, that was Kanter.

 

[framer]

Meh people said the same thing about Kevin Durant. I'm sure people said the same thing about Kareem Abdul Jabbar. I am not sure if Muscles are necessary or not.

The difference between Kareem and Gobert is that Gobert would have kicked Bruce Lee's ***

 

[MTS]

Gobert is too good to not start.

 

[Hekate]

Nah, that was Kanter.

Even when Kanter wasn't in the game?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Even when Kanter wasn't in the game?

I would still place at least 50% of the blame on Kanter in those situations.

 

[aussietin]

There was one play where Exum was on Curry and I was thinking he better not relax at all. I saw Exum straighten up a tiny bit and i thought 'oh crap'. half a second later, curry gets elevator doors, exum gets stuck behind the closing doors and curry nails the 3.

GSW is just so hard to play against. their passing just breaks down defences so hard.

 

[Hekate]

I would still place at least 50% of the blame on Kanter in those situations.

Well, the other %50 goes Otto because he isn't on the team, right? Why don't we trade Kanter for OP? Must be the most brilliant idea I have ever heard.

 

[r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t]

Some things he can't really help.

There are 76 centers ranked by this DRPM stat ("Player's estimated on-court impact on team defensive performance, measured in points allowed per 100 defensive possessions") at ESPN:

https://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/page/2/sort/DRPM/position/9

Heh

 

[MTS]

Even when Kanter wasn't in the game?

The Warriors shot 71% when Kanter was in the game, 41% when he was on the bench

 

[8]

I'll chill my weiner in your mouth.

I have razor-sharp teeth and a sandpaper tongue