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yeah thats the part nobody wants to admit. he's always been in a slump.
yeah thats the part nobody wants to admit. he's always been in a slump.
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He's even worse than his terrible career numbers... so it's a mega-slump.
//r00t 4 Jazz
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Been staying away from the boards because I am beyond frustrated, even though I knew the schedule would make it tough to win as much.
I am also surprised no one this season (that I have read anyway) has brought up if losing Igor Kokoškov has hurt the team (like people are saying it hurt HOU's defense when they lost their coach) so maybe it hurt the Jazz' offense. Especially Ricky, as he was assigned and working with Rubio all last season to help him with shooting. So just a thought that losing him hurt more than we realize and giving him credit for.
First I think the Jazz came out playing well, however the more they missed the more they became demoralized and besides harder to defend on transition missed shots it effected the team's morale IMO, human nature.
In the first half the Jazz were getting good looks, open looks and missing them, Crowder had been hot so he gets a pass but Rubio and Ingles missed open to wide open look after open look. Too make it worse a lot of TOR made shots were good to decent defense and they kept burying them, if you look the Jazz' defense was better than TOR for the first half. IMO the 3 by Lowery near the end of the 2nd QTR was the beginning of the end and it finished off the slowly eroding the Jazz' confidence and "want to".
2nd half was a complete joke and I'm throwing that away, only thing I was annoyed with is why Rubio got so much time and Exum didn't get more of his minutes, no way Rubio should've gotten over 24min (that's generous IMO but I understand Snyder wants him to play his way out of this slump) also for being such a good passer Rubio still hasn't improved his lob passing this season, he misses around as many as he connects, so frustrating.
I am also surprised no one this season (that I have read anyway) has brought up if losing Igor Kokoškov has hurt the team (like people are saying it hurt HOU's defense when they lost their coach) so maybe it hurt the Jazz' offense. Especially Ricky, as he was assigned and working with Rubio all last season to help him with shooting. So just a thought that losing him hurt more than we realize and giving him credit for.
First I think the Jazz came out playing well, however the more they missed the more they became demoralized and besides harder to defend on transition missed shots it effected the team's morale IMO, human nature.
In the first half the Jazz were getting good looks, open looks and missing them, Crowder had been hot so he gets a pass but Rubio and Ingles missed open to wide open look after open look. Too make it worse a lot of TOR made shots were good to decent defense and they kept burying them, if you look the Jazz' defense was better than TOR for the first half. IMO the 3 by Lowery near the end of the 2nd QTR was the beginning of the end and it finished off the slowly eroding the Jazz' confidence and "want to".
2nd half was a complete joke and I'm throwing that away, only thing I was annoyed with is why Rubio got so much time and Exum didn't get more of his minutes, no way Rubio should've gotten over 24min (that's generous IMO but I understand Snyder wants him to play his way out of this slump) also for being such a good passer Rubio still hasn't improved his lob passing this season, he misses around as many as he connects, so frustrating.
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Let just give Rubio a rest and do a put up or shut with Dante (like this hasn't been done in practice!)
I believe the Jazz are struggling first because Donovan has been hurt. Secondly, because the changes in the rules allowing more movement has exposed some of the Jazz weaknesses. This new flow has helped Rudy offensively but has made playing defense more difficult for all the players. The league is now a league for guards who can break down people and make 3 pts. The Jazz strength was their team defense and this was help with a slower pace but now the pace has increased it has exposed many of the Jazz players weaknesses. The Jazz have really three players who can take guys off the dribble DM, Burks, Exum and Ricky. However both Ricky and Exum have flawed offensive games. Alex can thrive in this type of play but it also leads him back to so bad habits. Jazz have lost to some solid teams but they need to figure it out. DM needs to get back and Ricky needs to start playing better or more losing is going to happen.
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Not by me, Exum makes his fair share of mistakes but for this game but he played better than Rubio or at the very least deserved to get some of Rubio's minutes. Also Favors doesn't deserve the hate he's getting for this game, sure he made a few mistakes but they were aggressive mistakes he was playing good D before and pretty good offense before the whole team collapsed.