Jazz @ mavericks

[seattlejazzfan]

Joe Johnson's presence of mind was incredible. He was in the lane for the rebound, but as soon as he saw it went long and Rudy had it, he went straight for the three-point line, zero hesitation. And that shot was never going to miss.

joe johnson just has oodles of clutch running through his veins.

 

[str8line]

Joe Johnson's presence of mind was incredible. He was in the lane for the rebound, but as soon as he saw it went long and Rudy had it, he went straight for the three-point line, zero hesitation. And that shot was never going to miss.

Awesome.

 

[gregbroncs]

Gobert's "airball" is on the front page of ESPN.com
Top plays from Friday's games and they choose to show that.


Edit: It's on main page of NBA section, not front page.

 

[cowhide]

Gobert's "airball" is on the front page of ESPN.com
Top plays from Friday's games and they choose to show that.

ESPN has always hated the Jazz. They probably wouldn't even show the Jazz if they were in the NBA championship. Jazz can win by 20+ in a game and all the highlights would be about the other team.

 

[enchilada_style]

ESPN has always hated the Jazz. They probably wouldn't even show the Jazz if they were in the NBA championship. Jazz can win by 20+ in a game and all the highlights would be about the other team.

Well they don't actually talk in depth about sports so when they do talk sports its about air balls and 1 legged kids shooting 3's in a high school basketball game

 

[oldtimer]

The NBA cannot allow Rudy to be in the all star game. The East team wouldn't score more than 80 points. It would be bad for league image.

 

[jaytulao]

Joe Johnson getting ready for the playoffs..

 

[Witty Username]

I actually don't want Gobert in the All Star game. He would try to exert energy and increase his odds of injuring himself.

 

[Elizah Huge]

No man. You can't worry about who you are reboudning over as a rebounder. If you are a great rebounder you have the mentality of going after every board. You really can't turn that off/on. It's not like our guards push the ball off rebounds either, so your point is kind of moot.

Solid *** post, Cy. If you've played any basketball in your life you'd understand this. Going up for a rebound you don't look around to see who you're going up against. You just want to grab the damn ball.


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[Rgiss]

We're looking at vs Pacers, vs Thunder, @ Nuggets, vs Lakers, vs Grizzlies in our next 5. We have to win 3 at the very least, I'm feeling 4-1. I think we lose 3 more before all star break.

 

[Coach Ellis]

U guys are welcome for the amazing game thread

Want to rep you. . . but no good luck girl. I'm thinking that we're pretty lucky that Rudy Gobert is a ******* monster.

 

[Tom349]

Solid *** post, Cy. If you've played any basketball in your life you'd understand this. Going up for a rebound you don't look around to see who you're going up against. You just want to grab the damn ball.


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Not in the current NBA. Teams don't contest offensive rebounds at the beginning of games that allows the guards to get rebounds and push the ball. Rudy needs to be more aware and his team mates need to communicate with him better as for letting him know that they have the rebound. It really isn't a difficult thing especially for high quality nba players.

Note - I'm not saying Rudy should stop going for rebounds, he just needs to stop stealing them from team mates (early in games) when it is clear that they have them under control. Im probably picking the worst time to bring this up given Rudy was huge on the boards down the stretch tonight but watch tomorrow at the beginning of the game and guaranteed their will be a couple of instances where he grabs the board when he could easily leave it for a team mate.

It isn't a big thing but if we want to push the ball more then in order for that to happen our guards need to get more rebounds and that can only happen if Rudy isn't taking them all.