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Lakers at Jazz Game Thread

framer said:
I want the Jazz to play pick and roll. Having a good pick and roll game is how you avoid losing to bad teams and advancing in the playoffs.
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Sounds good. Mitchell playing pick n roll as our point guard with our bigs while the other players on the floor are all threats from three that he can use his good vision and good passing to kick out to sounds good to me.

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framer said:
I want the Jazz to play pick and roll. Having a good pick and roll game is how you avoid losing to bad teams and advancing in the playoffs.
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Also to play devil's to your second sentence, Golden State doesn't play a lot of pick n roll, the Cavs didn't play a ton of pick n roll, Duncan's Spurs weren't pick n roll focused, pistons with billups not so much, Jordans bulls not really, shaq and kobe nope. LeBron's heat teams. These are teams that had some success in the playoffs imo and didn't do that much pick n roll.

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Royce O'Neal led the jazz in minutes last night with 39.

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I really liked seeing McGee, with two career threes, throwing one up from the top of the key with time left on the clock.
 
A good analysis I saw on Reddit from u/gyxorz

"The Jazz are always a fun team to play, no so much in the conventional sense of seeing freeflow high-octane basketball, but because they play a brand of basketball that is unconventional in the modern NBA. Fundamentally sound, and the phrase that always comes to my mind - methodical.

You get to know a lot about your team when you play the Jazz, and tonight hasn't been pretty at all.

  • The Lakers live off transition fast breaks, and the Jazz absolutely allow none of that. They get back and set up very quickly on D. Once Gobert is in position, it's almost impossible to get a good shot off at the basket unless you have an elite scorer at the rim -- outside of the LeBron, the Lakers have none. And with Rondo out and Lonzo mired in foul trouble early, that's your only 3 real playmakers out of the picture. There is a reason why Beasley could score tonight at a time nobody else could.

  • Gobert is incredible as a screener. Donovan got hot early thanks to the countless number of times he was able to use the screen and get tremendous separation, with only Javale / Chandler caught in no mans land in front of him. Lonzo is a great defender, but he's 6-6 with a stout frame, not ideal for navigating screens. He's great at defending larger players at the 1-3, but small quick guys like Mitchell tend to cause him problems.

  • Half court offense. If there is one thing that even the most deluded of LaKeR FaNs admits, its that our half-court offense is non-existent at times. The sort that regularly blows leads in crunch time. The sort that causes you to shake your head in disgust even with LeRonZo not out there. And in the first half tonight, it was as bad as it's ever been: Pointless weaving leading to nowhere, lack of weakside action etc etc. The Jazz have freaking Rudy Gobert (and other long guys like Favors and Ingles) patrolling the paint and yet we tried time and again to take difficult, contested shots at the rim. That Javale 3 in the 2nd quarter just about sums up how clueless and desperate we were out there.

  • Fouling jump shooters - Hart, KCP, Stephenson, Beasley all guilty in this game. You just can't do that, and there's nothing else to be said about this.

  • Freethrow shooting - Nothing to say here. I'm more surprised when we go 2/2 than when we don't

  • Outside of criticizing how we played tonight, The Jazz are my 2nd team so I've got to give them a ton of credit as well. Nothing I haven't said before, but they are such a well oiled team - guys like Ingles, Crowder and Favors all know their roles very well, and execute it to a high level. Everything about their organization seems very shrewdly run and it translates on the court. Defensively they can be absolute lock down, with little to no weaknesses at any position. If they can find a way to acquire another guard/wing who can create for himself, I genuinely believe they can compete with the very best teams in the playoffs."
 
jazzETX said:
huerter and shamet have gotten so much opportunity to play and learn; quin hasn't been near as flexible with grayson as lloyd pierce and brett brown have been with those 2 guys. even divincenzo has had alot of chances too even though he's played like crap most of the season. impossible to make judgments on allen w/ the garbage minutes he's gotten.
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Then I hope he'll get his opportunity while Rubio and Dante are out
 
Kuzma sure is an erratic shooter, a lot like DM. Killed the Pistons single handedly for 41 the other night but couldn't do anything against the Jazz. He seems to have been given the ultimate green light by Walton. Launching 6 threes a game at 30%, not too conducive to winning basketball.
 
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