No Answers - Is it Personnel or coaching?

[Max Porter]

Game 1 & 2
Kawhi, PG & Company vs Spida, No Conley but Company = W

Game 5
No Kawhi, only PG & Company vs unhealthy Spida who still scored 20+ & Company = L

Your math is terrible.

Your math is horrible. You forgot to add in still no Mike Conley for game 5. That means your best player is hurt and your second best offensive player is out.

if you flipped it so our best player was totally healthy, Donovan, and our second best was out vs the clippers (Conley) with a hurt kawhi and no PG guess who wins that game? The jazz.

No one around the league except a few angry jazz fans are saying this is a coaching issue. Why? Because it’s just not. Now if we are healthy and drop the ball ok let’s look at it.

 

[Tazzjazz]

Personnel x1000, IMO.

It could be coaching too, but we’d need better personnel to know that. Our bench was one guy this series. ONE GUY. Quin had no options.

The narrative that DL just messed up moves at the margins is false. The truth is DL ****ed up with putting together more than half the roster.

What about Ilyasova?

 

[slc]

If Quin does not play Ilyasova at all during playoffs he will not be with team next season

 

[Tazzjazz]

next season we should load manage everybody to the Max. If sitting players every other game is allowed, do it! Don't care about 1 seed. Sign durable players. Hire the best medical team. NBA only cares about revenues and it won't change next year anyway.

Like Denver, we live at altitude so our players should be the best conditioned in the NBA. We should run other teams off the floor--but we don't. May I suggest some strenuous off season hill running. This should also have the added benefit of strengthening the legs/ankles so we won't experience so many INJURIES! Without injuries (just like last year) I think our odds of an NBA championship go way up.

 

[slc]

Malone used to run in mountains behind his house
He would kill rattle snakes, mountain lions, moose, bear etc

 

[Tazzjazz]

Malone used to run in mountains behind his house
He would kill rattle snakes, mountain lions, moose, bear etc

Exactly. Malone was a workout beast and gave him DURABILITY.

 

[Release the Kraken]

This marks the 4th straight year where we’ve dropped three playoff games in a row to our opponent.
In 3 of those series, those 3 straight losses happened after a jazz win and after the opponent made adjustments to their game plan.

The other featured a rockets team that came in with a plan and won the first 3, and we never found an answer besides a lucky game 4.

Can we not adjust like our opponents because we lack the players, or because our coaching staff doesn’t have any answers?

Sure we suffer from being a small market team without a mega superstar the likes of Lebron or Durrant, so we're not privy to the cheap playoff run pickups of those teams. Hell, look at the Clippers in that respect - R. Jackson, Cousins, Rondo. We don't get those looks, but is it also because Snyder has burned his bridges by shutting down guys like Jeff Green and Ilyasova. Why go to a contender to ride the pine? Still, personnel is only a small part of the equation, when you look at the bottom-up development system in places like San Antonio, Miami, Indiana and Atlanta. And if we're supposedly so good at that, why are Burkes, Neto et. al. plying their trade in other cities? (I think we could have used both those guys in this series.)

When it comes to playoff basketball Snyder is a mediocre coach IMO. Gobert went 6-8 last night, as usual best on the team. For most of the night (41 minutes) his counterpart was Batun as Lu attacked us with his small ball lineup. So why the paucity of plays for Gobert - when the biggest guy they have out there is 6’9”. Why aren't we packin it in the paint to Gobert? Where are the alley-oops? We're playing against a small ball team where Gobert played 41 & 1/2 minutes and we shoot 27 free throws to their 25 - ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I mean if you’re not going to counter their move and instead insist on jacking up 54 threes to their 40, why not give your free agent stretch 5 (Ilyosova) a shot? We should have won game 5 easily if Snyder makes the proper adjustment, but instead he's totally oblivious to strategic adjustment and like the British in the Revolutionary War orders his charges to stand in formation and fire from distance.

Snyder is all about compiling wins in the regular season to the detriment of team development. Instead of load management he runs guys into the ground till they can’t perform anymore (Conley, Mitchell). Our deep bench doesn’t even know what real game minutes look like. Aside from the experience on their bench like Rondo, Cousins and Patterson compare what Terrance Mann gives them opposed to Oni. He plays with a swagger and self-assurance our young guys have not had the opportunity to learn on this team.