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Bell is trash. I really hope he is not on this team next season. That would be a huge disappointment. I did not watch this entire game but just seeing Martin have tons of FT attempts and Bell have 5 PF's is all I needed.
 
NUMBERICA said:
It is mystifying to me why so many people here are dying to get rid of Millsap.

Also, how did Bell play 29 minutes when he couldn't stop or slow Martin to save his life? Especially when AK is playing 21 and Hayward is playing 13. I'm starting to wonder if Corbin is blind or ****ing spineless. When you have a player go public about his disapproval and delusion, you don't cave, you stomp his ***. There's a time for diplomacy, but when you're dealing with a washed-up, overpaid ********, throw that out the window. Bell hasn't earned the respect he's gotten from the coaching staff, at least not this year.
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Except that this is one team Millsap has an advantage against. They don't have that tall, athletic front line that gives him fits. If he could not have big games against teams like Houston he would not have a place on the team at all. This is why I think he should anchor our 2nd unit. Him and Jefferson play too much alike and Millsap can dominate 2nd string PF/C combos and Jefferson is a better match up against most starting PF/C combo's.
 
NUMBERICA said:
It is mystifying to me why so many people here are dying to get rid of Millsap.

Also, how did Bell play 29 minutes when he couldn't stop or slow Martin to save his life? Especially when AK is playing 21 and Hayward is playing 13. I'm starting to wonder if Corbin is blind or ****ing spineless. When you have a player go public about his disapproval and delusion, you don't cave, you stomp his ***. There's a time for diplomacy, but when you're dealing with a washed-up, overpaid ********, throw that out the window. Bell hasn't earned the respect he's gotten from the coaching staff, at least not this year.
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Bell actually did a decent job on Martin. Ty was just doing the conventional thing matching up. But the better move was to recognize that Bell's defense is not worth what he does to us on offense. He's the worst offense killer I can remember. He has no vision, he can't drive, he doesn't cut, he's worthless on the break. The better move is to accept whatever limited defense you get from AK/Miles/Hayward so that you're not always playing 4 on 5. My hope is Ty is figuring this out, but Bell is just killing us.
 
candrew said:
When The Jazz made their initial push in the second half, AK was guarding Martin and doing a decent job of it.

Corbin makes the classic rookie mistake. Trying to conserve a player who is not 100% so you can play him on both nights of a back-to-back. Of course when you're on the playoff bubble tomorrow don't mean jack when you can't get it done tonight.
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You might be right. I think he was playing the matchup game foolishly, but he might have also thought he needed to preserve AK. Still, I hope this was a lesson for him. You can't play a supposed defensive specialist if you're already having trouble scoring. And honestly, Bell aint Thabo. The difference between him and the other options is negligible, while the difference offensively is enormous.
 
It was so satisfying seeing Bell get 30 minutes to AKs 20, especially in the 4th. Solid coaching move there.

But missed FTs, allowing offensive rebounds (although the Jazz beat the Rockets there it seemed like the Rockets had more timely offensive boards), and allowing a ton of 3s...that's classic losing Jazz basketball there.
 
gregbroncs said:
Bell is trash. I really hope he is not on this team next season. That would be a huge disappointment. I did not watch this entire game but just seeing Martin have tons of FT attempts and Bell have 5 PF's is all I needed.
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Martin probably gets the most amount of mystifying love from the refs that I've ever seen in NBA history.
 
It's because he falls down after every shot. The refs, don't actually ref, see. They look at who falls down and blows the whistle accordingly.
 
My dad and I were both screaming at Ty to get Bell out of there and put AK back in. There's always one player on the Jazz who totally sucks but gets 30 mpg anyway. This year it's Raja. Jerry Sloan is still clearly coaching this team.
 
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can someone add to his shirt - 'Raja Bell is my BFF!'

I still don't get what the jazz get out of playing Raja so much, makes no sense whatsoever
 
There are some good points made in this thread.
I support Bell and Corbin , but I wouldn't mind seeing Hayward get some of Bell's minutes.
 
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