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No Answers - Is it Personnel or coaching?

Saint Cy of JFC said:
It's injuries...
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Seriously. A healthy Donovan in game 5 and I think we win it. With Conley in there, we could exploit them when they trap don. We have the personnel IMO, we just don’t have the availability. Availability questions currently loom over many of this years playoff teams so it sucks to suck. They say a championship takes a large degree of luck in the sense that your guys have to remain healthy…
 
I'm going to make a longer post about it when everything is over, but the easiest spot to change is Bogey.

He's great, but he's easiest piece to trade on the team. He plays a coveted position for a lot of teams and he's more of a cherry on top kind of player for our team instead of what we may need. His presence also puts too high of a burden on Royce to rebound/defend.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I'm going to make a longer post about it when everything is over, but the easiest spot to change is Bogey.

He's great, but he's easiest piece to trade on the team. He plays a coveted position for a lot of teams and he's more of a cherry on top kind of player for our team instead of what we may need. His presence also puts too high of a burden on Royce to rebound/defend.
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I agree with this 100%. He probably also has the most trade value of anyone the FO would actually consider trading. I think we need to flip him for an elite defensive player that shoots at least 36% from 3.

Any team could use a Bogey. His skills are just somewhat redundant here, IMO. He is a “cherry on top” type of player for us, and if we make the right trade with him, would not take a step back.

I see Bogey as the most likely significant move we make. The Sixers could desperately use someone like Bogey.
 
Ineptimusprime said:
I agree with this 100%. He probably also has the most trade value of anyone the FO would actually consider trading. I think we need to flip him for an elite defensive player that shoots at least 36% from 3.

Any team could use a Bogey. His skills are just somewhat redundant here, IMO. He is a “cherry on top” type of player for us, and if we make the right trade with him, would not take a step back.

I see Bogey as the most likely significant move we make. The Sixers could desperately use someone like Bogey.
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Ehh Sixers got Harris, who is a better player than Bogey, so I dont think they'd be a destination. The problem with my Bogey idea is that I really have no idea who to trade him for at this point.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
It's injuries...
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This.

Mike Conley has been out for the whole series. Mitchell is playing at around 60%. The Clippers play a trapping defense that Mike and Donovan attack off the dribble, but they can't, so... TBH, the Jazz could have gone 7 games with the Grizzlies, or even lost, if they didn't have Mike Conley in that series.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Ehh Sixers got Harris, who is a better player than Bogey, so I dont think they'd be a destination. The problem with my Bogey idea is that I really have no idea who to trade him for at this point.
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Harris doesn’t have the drive game that Bogey sometimes does. But yeah, I did forget about Harris. The Sixers just seem like a team in desperate need of shooting and scoring.
 
Ineptimusprime said:
I agree with this 100%. He probably also has the most trade value of anyone the FO would actually consider trading. I think we need to flip him for an elite defensive player that shoots at least 36% from 3.

Any team could use a Bogey. His skills are just somewhat redundant here, IMO. He is a “cherry on top” type of player for us, and if we make the right trade with him, would not take a step back.

I see Bogey as the most likely significant move we make. The Sixers could desperately use someone like Bogey.
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Redundant to who? We have another 6'8" guy that shoots 40% from 3, can get his own shot, can post up and go at the basket, and is now showing some defensive versatility? Who?

He is not redundant at all. But if we swapped him for a defender first and foremost, who can shoot the 3, we would be money ahead.
 
Personnel. Snyder is a better coach than most coaches in this league - people need to give him a break. He's not perfect but he's a top-5 NBA coach VS current coaches.
 
What is getting exposed here more than anything else is coaching. Yes we have injuries to deal with and first and foremost these being resolved would have the biggest impact on the team. But the coaches job is to maximize the hodge-podge he has to work with and Quinn is just straight bad at making adjustments. Look he can make big sweeping modifications to a point, but he has basically 2 game plans, and he always runs one of those, and that's it. And it has been exposed this series and shown that you can disrupt our 2 basic sets and all we do is double down and revert to hero ball.

I think he is also using the wrong personnel. Ersan could be giving some valuable minutes as a veteran with playoff experience and as a small-ball counter but he hasn't seen a single minute. While Oni, who looks more clueless all the time, gets close to regular floor time.

And you hear it when they tap into the coaches mic stuff too I noticed. He basically tells them "look they are heavily defending the 3, so you have to work harder to get a 3" and that's basically it.

Even with the injuries we have shown in stretches we can compete, but when they mix things up Quin's response of "try harder" does nothing, unless a bojan goes nuclear.
 
Jazz are playing a type of Moneyball with great spot-up shooters playing off of drive-and-kick actions and pick-and-rolls. When the Jazz play against a team that has multiple long, athletic wings who can switch or hedge and recover to our shooters, they struggle. This happened when the Jazz played the Heat and the Grizzlies this year.

In this series, the Jazz have compensated by having their shooters spot up from even further out on the floor--several feet behind the 3pt line. Guys like Bogey, Mitchell and Royce have been able to do it pretty well. But guys like Georges Niang, who can't extend his range and can't really play at the level of speed and physicality, get rendered useless. Ingles has managed to remain somewhat effective, which is impressive.
 
Our entire defensive scheme doesn’t work for the playoffs. It’s nice in the regular season though.
 
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