Jazz throttle the Spurs at their place game thread

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I still think our lack of defending big 3s and small 4s beyond Royce is a huge problem for us going into the playoffs.

Ingles is pretty good at it.

 

[Jingled]

I don't see why we even put Bradley on the floor the last two games when the Spurs and Rockets were both playing small. It was just a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[Tom349]

I don't see why we even put Bradley on the floor the last two games when the Spurs and Rockets were both playing small. It was just a disaster waiting to happen.

Especially given we are not going to use Bradleys size advantage on offense by posting him on smaller players.

 

[Shad]

We were 3rd on ESPN Power Rankings. If we lose tomorrow, get ready for a HUGE drop, pretender calls, and told-ya-so's all over the place

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Eric Gordon was hitting difficult shots. So was Brandon Ingram. DeRozan less so. The problem I have is that the Jazz are giving up a metric **** ton of free-throws to these guys. We can't seem to defend them without fouling. Maybe part of it is that the league gives a friendly whistle to stars.

Also, our whole defensive scheme is based on running guys off the 3-pt line and funneling guys to Rudy. If players decide to pull up from mid-range or from 29 feet, we don't really have a solution.

Gordon didn’t hit difficult shots imo. Ingram hit many more tough jumpers than he normally does. Derozan hit contested twos but that’s kind of his life.

 

[Zombie]

What do we make of this?
Chalk it all up to schedule? Taking the ball out of Ingles hands running the offense?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I don't see why we even put Bradley on the floor the last two games when the Spurs and Rockets were both playing small. It was just a disaster waiting to happen.

He got zero rebounds tonight... woof.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

What do we make of this?

IDK... they don’t play together on the court much anymore.

 

[jom2003]

I don't see why we even put Bradley on the floor the last two games when the Spurs and Rockets were both playing small. It was just a disaster waiting to happen.

teams basically figure out the winning formula against us now. just play small since we can't switch. we can't guard the perimeter. and we can't punish those smaller teams with rebounding/post scoring. glaring weakness on our roster. and an easy gameplan to target. just makes too much sense.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Gordon didn’t hit difficult shots imo. Ingram hit many more tough jumpers than he normally does. Derozan hit contested twos but that’s kind of his life.

Gordon hit 30+ footers.

 

[jom2003]

He got zero rebounds tonight... woof.

long range shots leads to long rebounds. plus he's forced to guard out onto the perimeter.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Gordon hit 30+ footers.

That’s what he does though... he got 20+ free throws.