Mr. Corbin, where has this play gone?

[candrew]

@ primetime - that sounds like 1-4 with the old flex cuts (last night's video is unavailable on stats.nba.com). I've been trying to find video to copy but coming up short. RJ's 7th shot here and Favors' assist to Burks can be seen here and crappy .gif below. The Jazz were running similar sets early on trying to get Hayward some post-up looks.

I'm a fan of running more 1-4 through Favors. They've been going through Marvin and Evans since switching Kanter out of the starting lineup.

This looks more like Ramon Sessions giving up on the play than anything else. LOL - WTF is Cody doing?

Plus Big Al was apparently on the bench at this moment so they had no one to lay the smack down at the rim

 

[franklin]

dleet

 

[candrew]

There's plenty options to run on the other side, which is where the Jazz normally go with it. Sessions turns his back on the ball expecting a double pin down for Trey so he can switch if needed, and the Jazz capitalized on the mistake by timing things perfectly.

The way to stop this is running the two wings down the baseline so far that they have to go out of bounds and come back in before Favors can make that pass. It throws the timing off by allowing defenders to fight over screens and recover.

Fair enough - I'm just pointing out that the first two .gifs were illustrations of the Jazz offensive players communicating with each other to create scoring opportunities - good defense being beaten by better offense. The gif from this season just represents a defensive breakdown by The Bobcats - no one picked up the cutter. In most instances, good defense shuts this play down.

 

[franklin]

Fair enough - I'm just pointing out that the first two .gifs were illustrations of the Jazz offensive players communicating with each other to create scoring opportunities - good defense being beaten by better offense. The gif from this season just represents a defensive breakdown by The Bobcats - no one picked up the cutter. In most instances, good defense shuts this play down.

Did you watch the full play at that link? It actually was executed quite well. But you're right, which is why we only see this portion of this option scoring a handful of times per season.

 

[jazzrule]

dleet

Running up your post count?

 

[Harambe]

Running up your post count?

Quantity over quality bro