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Jazz - Nuggets: Round 1

Handlogten's Heros said:
He was solid. I think they should let him tag Jokic for a bit. They need to change how they play the pick and roll and do some switching... too predictable
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I am ok with Gobert getting the Jokic assignment for most of the night, if we are able to have a body down there to avoid easy layups/putbacks once he's pulled out of the rim - O'Neale strength and hustle is good and even works some for the boards, but he's just not tall/long enough for being that help defender, and if he has to go out as a help defender, then nobody is there to avoid an alley oop and crash the boards, while we also sent him into foul trouble - the bigger problem on that is Gobert foul trouble, but if we give Morgan on Jokic a bit, that may be easier to avoid.

What is imposible to overcome is have Ingles dying on every Murray/Jokic pnr/pnp and have Gobert on no man's land cause he can't fully commit to either Jokic or Murray for the whole time from Morgan checking out into the end of overtime.
 
Zombie said:
I don't know if this game made me more or less optimistic about this series, but a 57 point game in the playoffs is a level to Donovan's game I wasn't sure he had.
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In some ways, he played to the level he's been on the bubble, but sharing much less shot creation with Conley. Kept being much better picking his spots and even make some plays. One or other not so good turnover, yeah, but dude drops 57 efficiently, i can't really blame that...
 
rjfan said:
I am ok with Gobert getting the Jokic assignment for most of the night, if we are able to have a body down there to avoid easy layups/putbacks once he's pulled out of the rim - O'Neale strength and hustle is good and even works some for the boards, but he's just not tall/long enough for being that help defender, and if he has to go out as a help defender, then nobody is there to avoid an alley oop and crash the boards, while we also sent him into foul trouble - the bigger problem on that is Gobert foul trouble, but if we give Morgan on Jokic a bit, that may be easier to avoid.

What is imposible to overcome is have Ingles dying on every Murray/Jokic pnr/pnp and have Gobert on no man's land cause he can't fully commit to either Jokic or Murray for the whole time from Morgan checking out into the end of overtime.
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It is almost impossible to guard a good pick and roll/pop with two people if you aren't going to switch. It require help. If Rudy drops someone needs to come off and get to Jokic. He had way to much time.

Ingles looked gassed and I thought Royce should have been given a shot.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Niang missed three straight wide open corner 3's in the same possession.
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That was also bad... we were getting whatever we wanted at the time... I get it that you are open but let's run some offense.
 
What makes the loss even worse for me is that Conley for sure will be out for games 2 and 3, if not even game 4, but god knows when Harris (and Barton) will be back.
 
Beer said:
I don't disagree. Would you rather have Torrey Craig or Royce?
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Craig at the 2M he makes.

Assuming we keep Mitchell, Gobert and Bojan for the next three years, we can’t afford to sign every day players like Royce to 9M a year or sign Joe to dumb extensions.
 
Jazzmix said:
The question is what adjustements we may make in next one? I don't really see much that we can improve on offense as we have only Mitchell and Ingles who are able to involve others.
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The only adjustment we need: take care of the ball. If we take care of the ball in the OT and run the same offense we had for the entire first half, we likely win this one. The wheels came off due to 4 TOs on 4 straight possessions.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
It is almost impossible to guard a good pick and roll/pop with two people if you aren't going to switch. It require help. If Rudy drops someone needs to come off and get to Jokic. He had way to much time.

Ingles looked gassed and I thought Royce should have been given a shot.
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The biggest problem with drop against Jokic is that not only he's more than capable to shoot, but the great playmaker he is, so whenever someone closeout on him, its a money assist, but if a switch is made and a shorter guy like O'neal is on him, he's also able to use his back all the way to the basket (or a comfortable midrange), while also being good at drawing fouls and finding assists if a help defender comes, he's just that complete. You either commit to him when he pops or you hope they fumble/brick their possession by themselves.

Id say need to either have Morgan or Rudy follow Joker on the pnp (and the other keep his position on the rim, but i think Joker would foul Morgan much more, which i'm not sure is that bad at all if as i said, it avoids Gobert foul trouble) and have a body on Murray (be it Ingles or Royce, but we need to keep track of Royce's fouls and Ingles stamina).
 
themanknownassting said:
The play that killed us was the miss and offensive rebound by Denver at the end of the fourth. We get that board up by 3 we are in control. But instead they rebound and throw it out to Murray who hits the 3 to tie.
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Yep. And the offensive rebound Jokic got and got fouled on with 26.8 seconds left. They went up by two. If we get that rebound, we hold for last shot.
 
LoPo said:
NBA starters on their second contract at 26 years of age? I bet that's a pretty darn small list actually.
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He’s a good defender but nearly a 0 on freakin offense. I don’t wanna hear his 3 point percentage on limited attempts. This is a scoring league now. We can’t have him and the offensively limited Gobert out there so much with a bench of offensive duds outside of Clarkson.
 
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