Game Thread Jun 14, 2021 08:00PM MT: Jazz at Clippers - Game 4

[Max Porter]

Man, if anyone is good at qualitative research, it would be fascinating to review the ever changing opinions on Mike Conley on this board. He has been everything from the worst trade in team history, the source of limiting Mitchell’s supposed rise as a point guard, responsible for Joe struggling because he was moved to the bench, overrated, washed-up, overpaid, redundant, and now the missing link to a gentlemen’s sweep of a very good Clippers team.

I’m sure when it is all said and done, Conley will go down somewhere in between all of that. He is a good, but not great, point guard and he would/will absolutely help this team but will not single handedly change the DNA of this club.

You’re wrong man, he was balling before his injury and getting everyone involved. He also averaged 25 points a game against the clippers this year. Everyone plays better with him on the court especially Rudy and he is also very good against the zone defense not to mention takes a ton of pressure off Donovan.

 

[Jingled]

We won the 3rd and 4th quarters. That 1st quarter is what did us in.

 

[homeytennis]

At least we showed some fight, it would've been really easy to just give up an lose by 30. I'm still confident in us winning the next game at home.

I would like to find a few pearls in this turd. The Jazz outscored the Clips over the last three quarters tonight. If Clarkson had a normal game, maybe the Clips choke a bit. Our bench really stunk tonight. On to SLC.

 

[l Abach l]

We won the 3rd and 4th quarters. That 1st quarters what did us in.

Clippers weren't trying in the 3rd and 4th quarters. Game was over by the 2 minute mark in the 1st quarter.

 

[Ineptimusprime]

We are losing this series if Conley isn’t back. Period.

Not sure what we are saving Conley for at this point.

 

[Sean]

Clippers weren't trying in the 3rd and 4th quarters. Game was over by the 2 minute mark in the 1st quarter.

Yeah. This is where these stats are pretty meaningless. It's clear the Clippers' lead was never in doubt. Complacency is expected when you're leading the game by 20+ for 90% of it.

I guess it's possible they figured something out but I don't think we can say definitively either way.

 

[Jingled]

Not counting the last couple of minutes when the scrubs were in, the bench gave us 10 points on 4/18 shooting. The bench has been awful this whole series.

 

[l Abach l]

Our lack of length and athleticism (something i've been calling for over the past few years) is killing us yet again. Why the **** couldn't our front office construct a roster similar to the Sun's?

We looked slow, unathletic, and disinterested. Did Quinn make a single adjustment? Lue is coaching circles around Snyder... It's 2018/2019 all over again. Just a complete nightmare and another year wasted of Don and Rudy in their primes because our FO thinks that our 2nd best rebounder is a 6'3 undersized SG. Absolute clowns.

 

[NUMBERICA]

We are losing this series if Conley isn’t back. Period.

Not sure what we are saving Conley for at this point.

Saving him for when the Clippers have won 3 games, at which point the Jazz will suddenly activate him and play him 40 minutes a game (where he has a hamstring injury that ends his season definitively).

 

[NUMBERICA]

Our lack of length and athleticism (something i've been calling for over the past few years) is killing us yet again. Why the **** couldn't our front office construct a roster similar to the Sun's?

You mean the roster that sucked *** until they acquired Chris Paul (and Crowder)?

 

[oneye]

Quins minutes and rotations are garbage. Pulling Rudy during our best run tonight was absolutely ridiculous. I just needed to say this.

 

[l Abach l]

You mean the roster that sucked *** until they acquired Chris Paul (and Crowder)?

They went out and improved their roster while we ran it back giving Niang and Oni more minutes. I would've been happy dumping conley for Chris Paul and finding a way to get a player like Crowder instead of wasting a 2nd round pick for Matt Thomas.