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Idk about y'all, but...

The Fresh Prince said:
That was a fun year, but we knew we were limited with the matador interior D as well as perimeter D. This squad is can match up with superteams if we are firing on all cylinders. There's something different about this squad.
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We still have question marks on perimeter D. And there’ll be questions about closing time until we prove otherwise.

I’m super-optimistic, but I’m also not going to let an earrrrrrrly season win streak get me too geeked.
 
The Fresh Prince said:
I strongly feel like we can win a ring. We are putting up the to all of these superteams. If we can shoot every team off the floor, and can acquire Love in a buyout.. we should be unstoppable.
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Utah would be contenders if they traded Mitchell for a nice haul. This team is limited by his chucking. Fun team to watch tho.
 
idestroyedthetoilet said:
Utah would be contenders if they traded Mitchell for a nice haul. This team is limited by his chucking. Fun team to watch tho.
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I am starting to lean this way. I loved the way the team played against Dallas, although Dallas sucks pretty hard right now so not really a great test sans Mitchell. But I am seeing him as limited and something of a ball-stopper recently. He is getting numbers, but often the offense stalls when going through him. I wonder how different the game would have been without Mitchell against Denver?

That said, I hope he puts it together enough to be what we need, that star that can take over the game when we need him to. Right now he seems to have lost that spark. His rookie year and the year after he showed great ability to blaze when needed and take over, with multiple 20-pt quarters that turned games around. Lately he seems less connected to the team, and when he does get high point totals it seems almost as if it is aside from what the team is trying to do.

I mean I might be missing something in this, but his on/off stats have been consistently dropping since his rookie year. +22 wins with him on the court his rookie year, compare to -19 this year, unless I am understanding this completely backward. If so someone please correct me. But the way it is explained on the web site, this isn't great.

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I am sure people will say this is skewed by early-season performance, but that is still part of his performance for the season. I am hoping he puts it together, but so far his advanced stats are down almost across the board from previous seasons, and I find that concerning.


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I am still really excited about this season. We have a great team working as a team and winning at a higher rate than almost any other season of the Jazz this far into it, and definitely a faster start than most QS years, which bodes well as we enter our stride mid-season. This team has the best chance of winning it all of any Jazz team in a very long time, imo. And I love everyone on this team really, especially Mitchell, who is so much fun to watch as a dynamic scorer. I cannot wait for the next win streak to start!
 
LogGrad98 said:
I am starting to lean this way. I loved the way the team played against Dallas, although Dallas sucks pretty hard right now so not really a great test sans Mitchell. But I am seeing him as limited and something of a ball-stopper recently. He is getting numbers, but often the offense stalls when going through him. I wonder how different the game would have been without Mitchell against Denver?

That said, I hope he puts it together enough to be what we need, that star that can take over the game when we need him to. Right now he seems to have lost that spark. His rookie year and the year after he showed great ability to blaze when needed and take over, with multiple 20-pt quarters that turned games around. Lately he seems less connected to the team, and when he does get high point totals it seems almost as if it is aside from what the team is trying to do.

I mean I might be missing something in this, but his on/off stats have been consistently dropping since his rookie year. +22 wins with him on the court his rookie year, compare to -19 this year, unless I am understanding this completely backward. If so someone please correct me. But the way it is explained on the web site, this isn't great.

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I am sure people will say this is skewed by early-season performance, but that is still part of his performance for the season. I am hoping he puts it together, but so far his advanced stats are down almost across the board from previous seasons, and I find that concerning.


EDIT:

I am still really excited about this season. We have a great team working as a team and winning at a higher rate than almost any other season of the Jazz this far into it, and definitely a faster start than most QS years, which bodes well as we enter our stride mid-season. This team has the best chance of winning it all of any Jazz team in a very long time, imo. And I love everyone on this team really, especially Mitchell, who is so much fun to watch as a dynamic scorer. I cannot wait for the next win streak to start!
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I'm mainly enjoying the team and like to watch Mitchell play. It's fun, he's fun. I'm not holding out hope for a championship because I think that's too hard when your main scorer is below legue average in efficiency. The math doesn't work. I can't think of a recent championship team that had this problem other than Toronto with Siakim, but they had enough volume and efficiency in addition. Kobe wasn't the most efficient, only a little more than Mitchell, but he knew how to get to the line and that really helps close games. Of course, Kobe was known as the most inefficient closer so maybe there is nothing to this.
 
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idestroyedthetoilet said:
I'm mainly enjoying the team and like to watch Mitchell play. It's fun, he's fun. I'm not holding out hope for a championship because I think that's too hard when your main scorer is below legue average in efficiency. The math doesn't work. I can't think of a recent championship team that had this problem other than Toronto with Siakim, but they had enough volume and efficiency in addition. Kobe wasn't the most efficient, only a little more than Mitchell, but he knew how to get to the line and that really helps close games. Of course, Kobe was known as the most inefficient closer so maybe there is nothing to this.
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Mitchell’s biggest problems are his free-throw rate and his tendency to get tunnel vision as he gets closer to the rim on his drives.

When you combine all that with Rudy’s problems finishing anything besides a lob, then the ceiling of this team is sketched in full detail.
 
idestroyedthetoilet said:
I'm mainly enjoying the team and like to watch Mitchell play. It's fun, he's fun. I'm not holding out hope for a championship because I think that's too hard when your main scorer is below legue average in efficiency. The math doesn't work. I can't think of a recent championship team that had this problem other than Toronto with Siakim, but they had enough volume and efficiency in addition. Kobe wasn't the most efficient, only a little more than Mitchell, but he knew how to get to the line and that really helps close games. Of course, Kobe was known as the most inefficient closer so maybe there is nothing to this.
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Definitely the best thing Mitchell could add to his game is getting to the line more often. He is struggling at the rim this year (career low, and it's a heavy drop, from mid .60's down to .526) and then also does not know how to draw the fouls. If he could up his free throws per game it would add a very solid dimension that's been missing and make him that much more dangerous.
 
Really we need Ingles to shoot more, period. Best percentages on the team overall:

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