Jazz @ Mavericks 6:30 PM MT Game Thread

[LogGrad98]

I'm not a conspiracy type guy, but after the Jazz went red hot and were 22 out of 19 I feel like the memo went out that the NBA wasn't looking for Utah to be the "it" team.

So easy to break a teams momentum when you call just a handful of calls on things that had been working so well for them during a hot streak. It throws a team completely out of rhythm and forces them to make it up as they go along. I think that's what we saw during the 5 game losing streak. A team that had a winning formula taken away from them looking for plan B. Be on the lookout for the NBA to force the Jazz into plan C.

For the record I do not think this is crazy talk.

 

[Nate505]

Some killer instinct from this team would be nice. Step on a team's throat once in a while for ****s sake.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Called 11 more fouls on us... gave them 10 more free throws... most in the second half... so many judgement calls went the other way... home cooking tonight... didn’t matter cuz we got Bojan, Rudy, and Jordan ****ing Clarkson.

 

[Piso]

Mitchell -30 in the second half

 

[Zombie]

What about the first Rox game without Harden, Westbrick, and Capela??

Well yeah, but even so I think a split with Houston was about what most people expected.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Some killer instinct from this team would be nice. Step on a team's throat once in a while for ****s sake.

The stint where we turned it over like 4-5 times was pretty rough... but we couldn’t completely put them away in part because the refs spotted them a bunch of free throws and allowed Barea to two hand shove guys all night.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Mitchell -30 in the second half

He was bad... thank goodness he buried that fade away.

 

[NAOS]

Well yeah, but even so I think a split with Houston was about what most people expected.

Everything is context-dependent. Losing that first game against the Rox, when you add the context, was straight up ********.

 

[NAOS]

He was bad... thank goodness he buried that fade away.

He’s been slipping into that mid-December crap again. Very aggravating.

 

[gregbroncs]

jc is everything we hoped Alec Burks would be.

 

[yamers]

Mitchell had 9 TUrnovers...thats really bad...lol

 

[Zombie]

Everything is context-dependent. Losing that first game against the Rox, when you add the context, was straight up ********.

Ok. I mean they definitely should have won that game but iirc this was the game everyone not named Bogdanovic went like 5/30 from 3, it was flukey af.

 

[Jingled]

Mitchell did have a lot of turnovers but his shooting was much more efficient tonight. 23 points on 8/12 from the field, none of the chucking or forcing shots we've seen recently.

 

[vegas]

Some killer instinct from this team would be nice. Step on a team's throat once in a while for ****s sake.

Baby steps. Glad for the W esp on a b2b. Plus we did it without their best player!

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[latin jazz]

jc is everything we hoped Alec Burks would be.

Yeah, you stole my words. Was thinking this during the game. A spark off the bench who can get you easy points. Our Lou Williams/Jamal Crawford

Alec had all the tools, never got there. Injuries, IQ, system, etc

 

[JazzMan4Life]

Clarkson had 8ast to go with his team-leading scoring!

I'd say the Exum for Clarkson trade surpasses the Jeff Malone for Jeff Hornacek trade for the best trade in Utah Jazz history.

The Giricheck for Korver trade is sitting there like "hi, what about me?" and it was good too.

In each of this mid-season trades the Jazz replaced people who weren't cutting it from the 3pt line for people who did.

I vaguely remember what sloan said shortly before the Giricheck for Korver trade that what the Jazz needed wasn't a "shooting guard, but a making guard." And that's what they got. In the Exum trade the Jazz abandoned supposed potential for a guy who had realized his potential in real scoring production.

Someone earlier in this thread said the same (best trade in Jazz history) but Gobert/Mitchell for terrible players/cash wins.

But yes they are different kinds of trades and I get what you're saying.

 

[JazzMan4Life]

I'm not a conspiracy type guy, but after the Jazz went red hot and were 22 out of 19 I feel like the memo went out that the NBA wasn't looking for Utah to be the "it" team.

So easy to break a teams momentum when you call just a handful of calls on things that had been working so well for them during a hot streak. It throws a team completely out of rhythm and forces them to make it up as they go along. I think that's what we saw during the 5 game losing streak. A team that had a winning formula taken away from them looking for plan B. Be on the lookout for the NBA to force the Jazz into plan C.

This sounds like a conspiracy guy to me.

To be fair I'm not a superstitious (I'm a little stitious) guy, but I do wear certain clothes on game days.

 

[JazzMan4Life]

We got a split with Houston and won both games with Dallas.
The way Lillard is playing, I don't mind the split with Portland.
The game that really hurts is Denver at home when we fell apart in the final 3 mins for no reason.

I was lucky enough to have tickets to that game. Yay

 

[Watcher]

Fouled out

Doh! How did I miss that?

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[LogGrad98]

This sounds like a conspiracy guy to me.

To be fair I'm not a superstitious (I'm a little stitious) guy, but I do wear certain clothes on game days.

You wear clothes on game days? Some kinda freak?