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Jazz vs Heat | Wednesday December 8th @ 7:00pm (The Rematch)

The Jazz have to prove that they are a contender in the WEst. Home losses against Thunder, Spurs, Mavs and Heat in same homestand is ridiculous. 16-7 record is pleasing but the "statement" games that the Jazz have lost at "home" will not get them a top3 seed.

For now, Lakers, Mavs and Spurs are the elites of the West and clearly are better than the Jazz. The elites' biggest chance so far is not having to integrate, adapt new important, star, cornerstone players into the system. THis is a huge advantage. The Jazz hopefully will get better as the are supposed to be throughout the season and can challenge them. I do not want to witness another 50+ win 4th or 5th seed finish, which is also not guaranteed. THe bottom line is the Jazz have to win must-win games and they should win statement games at home.
 
Well, Wade and Lebron are tough to beat in the 4th quarter. And when Jefferson is missing his 2-foot push shots, there is no hope.
 
Didn't see the game, but it looks like the Jazz were in it until the 4th, so yea, maybe they ran out of gas. Shooting % was fine, except they missed their 3s, also telling me that the points on Dwill's minutes (0 fo 5) might have been correct. Up until now, the LeBron and Wade have been poor from 3, but nobody tells them to stop shooting from 3 so much.

Also got outrebounded.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Sloan is overrated. He's a great defensive coach, but that's it.

On another note, one thing that drives me crazy is to see a player play 22 seconds of great defense and then let them have an open shot. In the fourth quarter, Raja did a nice job of knocking the ball away from D. Wade, who then recovered and took a wide-open three. With only a couple of seconds left on the clock, what else was he going to do with it?
 
yea, Bell probably didn't know that the clock was winding down, or he did, and didn't want to bail out Wade with a foul with the clock winding down, but I agree, I often see where players could play the last few seconds of the clock better.
 
fairweather said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Sloan is overrated. He's a great defensive coach, but that's it.

On another note, one thing that drives me crazy is to see a player play 22 seconds of great defense and then let them have an open shot. In the fourth quarter, Raja did a nice job of knocking the ball away from D. Wade, who then recovered and took a wide-open three. With only a couple of seconds left on the clock, what else was he going to do with it?
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You are way off yet again. Prove that Jazz offense is bad. Over the years, the Jazz offense has ALWAYS been one of the MOST efficient and unstoppable systems in the NBA. The Jazz offense requires perfect execution, preparation, effective cuts and drives, constant and logical off the ball movement off players, ball sharing, effective spacing. When players commit themselves to execute the offense, play aggressive and unselfish, the offense becomes really creative and despite the fact that basic principles is known by everybody, due to the ball movement from side to side, off ball movement of players, it becomes unpredictable and difficult to adjust by defenses. The Jazz have had struggles on offense this year and it's normal. It's an adjustment period and since the offense is complex and requires repetition, it takes some time for newcomers to become adjusted to. Nice try.
 
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