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Game Thread May 26, 2021 08:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Grizzlies - Game 2

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infection said:
The “save some for later” was the moral Quin walked away with from Willy Wonka. I’m glad he didn’t use his challenge on the Gobert/Morant phantom foul because now we can use it later in the series.

Seriously, at least rub the ref’s noses in their **** by challenging that one.
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Probably the most egregious failure to challenge a call all season. Mind-boggling to me how he just, nearly pathologically, refuses to challenge. And when he does he gives off a vibe that he's getting a rectal exam or something. I don't get it.
 
fishonjazz said:
Saving guys for later is too risky.
All these games are important. You try to get cute and save guys then you might go out in round 1 or even make the series a couple games longer than necessary.

Let's play our guys what it takes to win each game. Finish them off in 5 and then be able to rest waiting for the 2nd round.

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Agreed. And that's what they did in game 1 for some unknown reason. If that leads to our ouster someone needs to get fired.
 
Ujfanatic said:
As a defensive strategy the Jazz try to take away the other team’s 3’s. They’re playing money ball on both sides of the floor. They want to bait teams into the mid range and trust Rudy to go 1 on 5 in the paint, which he does remarkably well.

This strategy works pretty well against most teams in the league that are trying to win by shooting 3s, hence the Jazz having a top 5 defense. However, Memphis is not that team. They get to play to their strengths against the Jazz - their athletic guards penetrating and shooting close-in midrange floaters and jumpers.

If the Jazz stick to this strategy, which also gave up two 30+ point games to Morant in the regular reason, the series will come down to whether they Jazz can make enough 3s to offset all of the 2s the Grizzlies are going to get.
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This
 
My God I never want to go to another Kane Fitzgerald game again.

I don't even know what to draw from the game honestly. Kane Fitzgerald games are so far removed from actual basketball to the point where I don't even know if what either team did on offense is sustainable in future games.

Hopefully in Game 3 the refs go back to allowing actual defense.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Probably the most egregious failure to challenge a call all season. Mind-boggling to me how he just, nearly pathologically, refuses to challenge. And when he does he gives off a vibe that he's getting a rectal exam or something. I don't get it.
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It was one of the worst foul calls I’ve ever seen... there was so much airspace between their bodies and he took the ball out of the air. For such a genius coach he is really dumb sometimes.
 
Sean said:
I think they're probably more correct than Jazz fans want to admit. Tonight, Memphis matched Utah's intensity and played pretty strong in the second half of a game Utah absolutely needed but Memphis didn't. That indicates to me we're maybe not the better team.

Sure, I could be wrong and things flip in Memphis but I'm assuming the Jazz will be dogs Saturday and if they lose that game, they'll be dogs again in game four, and right there makes them underdogs for the series.

To be honest, I'm more discouraged after tonight's win than I was Sunday's loss because I really expected the Jazz to come out and dominate and while they did in the second quarter, it didn't really carry over into the second half.

I'm actually leaning toward Utah losing in six, which is insane to me because I wouldn't have thought that even after game one.
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I think jazz win in six because Mitchell’s minutes will go up and JC will have at least one game where he goes off.
 
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