Game Thread Jun 12, 2021 06:30PM MT: Jazz at Clippers - Game 3

[Elizah Huge]

 

[Hekate]

Torrey Craig was available for the minimum to start the season... he was available in season for a second rounder... we got Matt Thomas instead. We cut Shaq instead of Oni... at least Shaq can defend... even if he can’t shoot at all.

Shaq Harrison has a total of 10 minutes in 3 games for the Denver team who has 3 of their guards down against CP3 and Booker who he, theoretically, matches up well against. I don't think he would sniff the floor even with Conley and Niang out of rotation.

 

[vegas]

I don't trust a word the Jazz say about injuries, unfortunately.

I was thinking the same, but I gotta hope.

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[Elizah Huge]

You have to have the right personnel... clips do... but the big issue has always been that he can’t punish them for being small. If they want to go small that’s fine... Rudy can still impact the defensive side of the ball on many plays. If they go small he needs to have like 20 points through lobs and offensive rebounds. It has to be a trade off and it hasn’t been.

It would also help if Rudy could catch the ball.

 

[fishonjazz]

Batum scoring 17, only getting 1 foul, playing 35 minutes and stretching Rudy out of the lane killed us.

Thats all a good team has to do - put a shooter at the 5 and Rudy goes from being elite to being just pretty good. He or we have to get Batum into foul trouble.

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You do know that they went small in the first two games as well right? And we won.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I’m curious about Donovan, because to me it looked more like he tweaked his knee by the mechanism and perhaps the ice is just a red herring.

What happened? I missed the game

 

[Deleted member 365]

Mitchell might be hurt. Jazz sucked at getting layups. Defense was bad but we also struggled consistently finding an offense.

What happened to Mitchell?

Also, why is Oni getting any time? What does he do to justify his lack of offense? I’d much rather have Hughes in who might be able to hit a 3 or something.

 

[fishonjazz]

It's Ersan time.

Good call

 

[NUMBERICA]

Niang was a self-inflicted dagger in the 4th. He single-handedly grew the Clipper lead by like 8 points in one minute.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Yeah, couldn't defend and LA was pretty aggressive all game long. Donovan got injured. He was limping with his ankle wraped in ice when leaving the court.

This is why we need Conley back. Or a functional replacement. You can’t task Mitchell like this. Especially since he’s already coming off injury. We need our roles to be played. He cannot be the primary ballhandler, distributer, and scorer.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Shaq Harrison has a total of 10 minutes in 3 games for the Denver team who has 3 of their guards down against CP3 and Booker who he, theoretically, matches up well against. I don't think he would sniff the floor even with Conley and Niang out of rotation.

Austin Rivers or Torrey Craig would be nice. Why didn’t we pick either of those guys up?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Shaq Harrison has a total of 10 minutes in 3 games for the Denver team who has 3 of their guards down against CP3 and Booker who he, theoretically, matches up well against. I don't think he would sniff the floor even with Conley and Niang out of rotation.

Maybe... he gave them more productive minutes than Oni has given us.

it didn’t have to be Shaq but there was a clear need for one more defender. We have been lucky as hell Royce hasn’t been in foul trouble. We burned assets and a spot for Matt Thomas who looks like trash even when playing against scrubs.