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Game Thread Jan 25, 2023 08:00PM MT: Jazz at Trail Blazers

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sip said:
We have been lit up by Kyrie and Lillard in the last week yet our best perimeter defender in NAW rots on the bench in both games. The NAW situation might be the most baffling that I have ever seen. By all accounts he is a great teammate and he was playing really well but gets benched for no reason. It is so weird.
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I would have love to see NAW and Ochai on Dame.. and if they cannot slow him down then play physical and foul out or whatever. Not dirty handchecks or anything.. but making Dame put his muscles to work. I get it that Hardy might want to develop Sexton with more priority, but its not like NAW and Ochai are waste of developing minutes.. or for the sheer experience of what its like to defend Dame.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I honestly wish they would start all the young guys except Lauri. Start Sexton, Agbaji, NAW, Lauri, Kessler. I mean what is the worst that could happen, we lose a few more games? Use Clarkson and Conley as change of pace and in a mentoring role. We aren't chasing a ring this year, why not get the young guys as much burn as possible an improve our odds of getting a better pick? If they have to start Conley and Clarkson at least sub in the young guys earlier and give them more minutes, and insert another one into the starting lineup. Like Conley, Clarkson, Agbaji, Lauri, Kessler. We would be better served I think to approach this more as a development year, with heavy coaching and minutes played for the developing guys. And I think we still win more games than anyone expects. I would bet our win rate wouldn't go down much, if at all.
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I think Lauri is by far the most responsible for our surprising record. Keep Lauri and keep playing him and we probably dont drop off too much.
 
fishonjazz said:
I think Lauri is by far the most responsible for our surprising record. Keep Lauri and keep playing him and we probably dont drop off too much.
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sip said:
We have been lit up by Kyrie and Lillard in the last week yet our best perimeter defender in NAW rots on the bench in both games. The NAW situation might be the most baffling that I have ever seen. By all accounts he is a great teammate and he was playing really well but gets benched for no reason. It is so weird.
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LogGrad98 said:
We would be better served I think to approach this more as a development year, with heavy coaching and minutes played for the developing guys. And I think we still win more games than anyone expects. I would bet our win rate wouldn't go down much, if at all.
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I'm sure Sexton, NAW, Agbaji all would've benefited from bigger minutes. A bit more doubtful on how much it would've helped to play all those minutes with eachother. Almost certain Lauri and Kessler would not have the growth they've had if all their minutes came with Sexton, NAW and Agbaji.
 
Well, the first quarter the Jazz played a good all around game, but after Dame got hot in the second, all of the weaknesses of the team were magnified. That's the reason Dame is a supermax player and it was hard to focus, to respond and deal with it. But even if the Jazz responded well, this is game I think they would have lost anyway - even bad teams have stretches or runs where they will not lose - this was one of them. They would have beaten any team last night.
 
whatthe said:
Well, the first quarter the Jazz played a good all around game, but after Dame got hot in the second, all of the weaknesses of the team were magnified. That's the reason Dame is a supermax player and it was hard to focus, to respond and deal with it. But even if the Jazz responded well, this is game I think they would have lost anyway - even bad teams have stretches or runs where they will not lose - this was one of them. They would have beaten any team last night.
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I agree. Dame shot from ridiculous range and hit seemingly everything. Even thought at that one point he can shoot from further away and took just a random early clock logo 3... after which he settled for the 30 footers lol.

At one point I was sort of thinking "let Lauri do that as well.. he is a good long range shooter"... and then I realized what an unsustainable bad habit that is. Dame has put up loads of points and has a way better team around him than Lauri does... yet they are 3 spots below us in standings. They also lose a lot of games to Dame taking those shots and not hitting them.
 
Lillard said after the game scoring those 60 points “came pretty simple”. I’ve seen other teams make much better job in double-teaming or preventing easy passes to him when he’s hot. Hardy should take some heat for this too imo.
 
Lilliard is a known specimen, he just got hot, ok, I undestand it.
That said, you probably want to wear him away a bit switching stronger dudes on offense all over him (THT comes to mind) and screen and stay on him a bit... it's not 2 separate games D and O... you just do not let him be so comfortable...

All this figh to get the .500 team trophy is kind of weird.
 
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