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Nice Coaching Quinn

If someone can channel Ms. Cleo, then that's an impressive feat as she's dead. But I think you've just inspired the next game thread.

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The only thing I can put on Quinn is bringing Rudy back with 4 where he nearly immediately picked up #5, but i can see where he was coming from when he brought him back.
 
What was maddening about last night was that OKC was about 30 second from quitting and going fishing today. We'll get them Friday.

If it weren't for the phantom call on rudy--his fourth foul, one of the most despicable and predictable nba helping the famous team calls--he would have stayed in the game and if he would have been in there for like two more minutes, the run most likely doesn't happen, and okc gives up. One of the most effective rig calls i've ever seen. Truly amazing. We all knew it was coming. Heard multiple national media pundits on podcasts and twitter predict that Gobert would be put foul trouble tonight before the game, so this isn't just home town bias. Bill Simmons called it and made a good point, that Rudy can be called any way the refs choose. That might be a concerning weakness as the team goes forward. This won't be the last time the refs can choose what happens to Gobert, and he probably won't ever be famous enough to get the respect he deserves to stop it form happening. Anyway, putting gobert and favors in foul trouble was always going to happen. Obviously credit has to go to Westbrook and the jazz absolutely collapsed, rolled over, **** themselves and choked. But that doesn't happen if Rudy doesn't get that fourth call. Once that happened the jazz didn't know what to do. Don't know whether to be concerned or confident about this going in to 6. We were clearly the better team, but that collapse was one of the worst I've ever seen. The reffing might be a little better at home, but it probably still won't be in our favor. It wasn't in game four. OKC figured us out defensively--they will switch, play melo a lot less. Westbrook smells blood. He's got his confidence back. Think i would have rather OKC lead the whole game then historically collapsing like that. Jazz absolutely need to run their offense better. Rubio played really poorly after the run started, and I don't think Ingles took a shot at all. I wonder what the adjustment will be to OKC switching and not playing melo as much.
 
Look, I think Quin made a critical error putting Rudy back into the game with 4 fouls when there was still 5 minutes left in the 3rd qtr. We were still up by 13 points at the time and in a decent position. Ekpe was playing some solid defense. If we sit Rudy until the 4th qtr I think that we have a good shot to hold on and close the series. Once Rudy picked up his 5th foul it basically took him out of the game. He couldn't contest shots or play defense at all because he was trying to avoid fouling out. Which gift wrapped easy shots to Westbrook and PG, and the game to the Thunder.

But that said, Quin is a great coach. He's a top 5 coach in the entire NBA in my opinion. I'm glad he's coaching the Jazz. Nobody is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. All we can do is move on to the next one.
 
If it weren't for the phantom call on rudy--his fourth foul, one of the most despicable and predictable nba helping the famous team calls--he would have stayed in the game and if he would have been in there for like two more minutes, the run most likely doesn't happen, and okc gives up. One of the most effective rig calls i've ever seen. Truly amazing. We all knew it was coming. Heard multiple national media pundits on podcasts and twitter predict that Gobert would be put foul trouble tonight before the game, so this isn't just home town bias. Bill Simmons called it and made a good point, that Rudy can be called any way the refs choose. That might be a concerning weakness as the team goes forward. This won't be the last time the refs can choose what happens to Gobert, and he probably won't ever be famous enough to get the respect he deserves to stop it form happening. Anyway, putting gobert and favors in foul trouble was always going to happen. Obviously credit has to go to Westbrook and the jazz absolutely collapsed, rolled over, **** themselves and choked. But that doesn't happen if Rudy doesn't get that fourth call. Once that happened the jazz didn't know what to do. Don't know whether to be concerned or confident about this going in to 6. We were clearly the better team, but that collapse was one of the worst I've ever seen. The reffing might be a little better at home, but it probably still won't be in our favor. It wasn't in game four. OKC figured us out defensively--they will switch, play melo a lot less. Westbrook smells blood. He's got his confidence back. Think i would have rather OKC lead the whole game then historically collapsing like that. Jazz absolutely need to run their offense better. Rubio played really poorly after the run started, and I don't think Ingles took a shot at all. I wonder what the adjustment will be to OKC switching and not playing melo as much.

I didn't read all this because it was long winded AF - good for for going the length.

Anyway, go back to the final OKC HOU game and listen to the commentators complaining about the calls. NBA wanted OKC to have home court. Call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but that's how I viewed that game. HOU didn't need a win but star power did.

Tell me I'm wrong.
 
Quin is a great coach, in previous games OKC runs came at times starters were resting so I can understand why he wanted to stick with the main guys.

I do hate as an aussie the lack of run Exum seems to get unless he is 100% perfect, I actually hope for his career sake he moves at the season's end.

Only criticism is Rudy coming back on early as noted already, too big a risk with 4 fouls.
 
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