Schrödinger's Gerbil
Well-Known Member
A few observations:
1. In the second half, the Jazz buried Ace at the corner 3 and ran almost zero actions for him. He was largely a bystander. When he did get involved, he seemed to be forcing it rather than playing in the flow of the game, as the flow had largely frozen him out. I hope they make more efforts to get him involved. In contrast, VJ featured prominently in the 76ers attack and had more opportunities. For all the praise heaped on him (and I was among the impressed), his 27 or so points came on 24 or so shots.
2. Similarly, Sensebaugh was buried at the corner 3 in the second half and had few actions ran to get him the ball. I'm ok with that, as I like to see others get involved, but he provided much of the spark last night when the Jazz went on their entertaining runs in the first half, so if the goal was to win, this was an interesting strategy.
3. I'm curious why Harkless got so much playing time? Is he in the Jazz's future plans.
4. The games last night moved too slowly. There's no need for challenges in the summer league nor for drawn out ref deliberations. Make the call and get on with the game, the stakes couldn't be lower.
5. Listening to a podcast this morning, they were all over Cody and how bad he was last night. I thought he looked ok, not great, but not THAT bad. He's already got a rep that's going to very hard to overcome and will jaundice any discourse around him.
Other than that, a fun game. It's so much more fun with the Jazz try to win and do well, and we can talk about things other than %^&*$ tanking. I think that the number of pages for this game thread exceeded any game thread from the entire regular season last year, suggesting that people here largely agree with this sentiment.
1. In the second half, the Jazz buried Ace at the corner 3 and ran almost zero actions for him. He was largely a bystander. When he did get involved, he seemed to be forcing it rather than playing in the flow of the game, as the flow had largely frozen him out. I hope they make more efforts to get him involved. In contrast, VJ featured prominently in the 76ers attack and had more opportunities. For all the praise heaped on him (and I was among the impressed), his 27 or so points came on 24 or so shots.
2. Similarly, Sensebaugh was buried at the corner 3 in the second half and had few actions ran to get him the ball. I'm ok with that, as I like to see others get involved, but he provided much of the spark last night when the Jazz went on their entertaining runs in the first half, so if the goal was to win, this was an interesting strategy.
3. I'm curious why Harkless got so much playing time? Is he in the Jazz's future plans.
4. The games last night moved too slowly. There's no need for challenges in the summer league nor for drawn out ref deliberations. Make the call and get on with the game, the stakes couldn't be lower.
5. Listening to a podcast this morning, they were all over Cody and how bad he was last night. I thought he looked ok, not great, but not THAT bad. He's already got a rep that's going to very hard to overcome and will jaundice any discourse around him.
Other than that, a fun game. It's so much more fun with the Jazz try to win and do well, and we can talk about things other than %^&*$ tanking. I think that the number of pages for this game thread exceeded any game thread from the entire regular season last year, suggesting that people here largely agree with this sentiment.
