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Game Thread Nov 02, 2022 06:30PM MT: Jazz at Mavericks

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Cool story… I actually think guys that play hard and don’t fall down for no damn reason should get the benefit of the doubt. T wasn’t just those calls though… sexton had Luka draped across him and horse collared hiM on a drive after he got one of his BS touch fouls. I felt it was uneven and was definitely a factor.
JV does get fouls calls. He gets a ton of favorable whistle when he goes for offensive rebounds and guys push him. That's where he uses his understanding of positioning and angles to his advantage. He just doesnt have that when the ball is in his hands.

Luka deserves most of the foul calls he gets. I know they are frustrating, but his use of positioning and angles is masterful. It's not like he just gets random calls. He's baiting guys into doing what he wants them to do and then punishes them.
 
Holy **** man… sexton was bad for
Most of the night but he didn’t make Lauri miss 4 threes… he actually set Lauri up really nicely at least once.

Lauri is like Hayward in some ways… he scores in the flow of the offense… the zone disrupted his flow as much as anyone on the team.

Not everything is Sextons fault… maybe we could look at box plus minus to find a weak link… maybe we could look at the season on/off splits and find a weak link… you want to go look it up… maybe if you discover it yourself you can believe it… like Kyrie doing his own research on YouTube.
Stats dont tell the whole story. THT is the defense individual defender on the team.
 
Holy **** man… sexton was bad for
Most of the night but he didn’t make Lauri miss 4 threes… he actually set Lauri up really nicely at least once.

Lauri is like Hayward in some ways… he scores in the flow of the offense… the zone disrupted his flow as much as anyone on the team.

Not everything is Sextons fault… maybe we could look at box plus minus to find a weak link… maybe we could look at the season on/off splits and find a weak link… you want to go look it up… maybe if you discover it yourself you can believe it… like Kyrie doing his own research on YouTube.

You could also look at PER. Funny how all the advanced stats are pointing towards one weak link.
 
Positive thing is that it was still team effort even it came little bit short in the end. My impression was that there was too much forcing in scoring situations from almost every guy. Backwards passes to second waves were not utilized properly, and generally whole passing game was somehow 'meh'. Towards to the end that began to appear also on a faces of guys, you know.

Anyway. Honorable loss as they never ceased to try.
 
Yeah but he was struggling before they implemented the zone too. Looked a step slow and even missed consecutive free throws.
Sir he only missed 1 FT all game. It was mostly the zone IMO. Also we went away from the rotations we were using when Gay/Kessler were out and that ruined our early game flow. Plus we played Sexton way too much instead of using our more diverse bench units.
 
I can’t refute your defender size point! I was actually hoping we could see more THT on Luka throughout the game. Luka did get a few inexplicable calls though. Like backing down Clarkson into his body Clarkson’s hands out and foul called on Clarkson!
THT played awful in his 14 minutes. Offense seemed to struggle with him on the floor and defense was just not there, didnt rebound AND had trouble boxing out Powel, Wood and Kleber.
Size is great but effort needs to be there.
 
Positive thing is that it was still team effort even it came little bit short in the end. My impression was that there was too much forcing in scoring situations from almost every guy. Backwards passes to second waves were not utilized properly, and generally whole passing game was somehow 'meh'. Towards to the end that began to appear also on a faces of guys, you know.

Anyway. Honorable loss as they never ceased to try.
Kidd’s a summabich with substitutions and adjustments, hard to beat that guy! Plus they have the Don, who gets Godfather-like respect from the refs!
 
Sir he only missed 1 FT all game. It was mostly the zone IMO. Also we went away from the rotations we were using when Gay/Kessler were out and that ruined our early game flow. Plus we played Sexton way too much instead of using our more diverse bench units.
I agree with you on this. Zone has the potential to break his rhythm, it's harder for him to cut on drives and he was cold from 3. Hardy has some work to do, because that's a simple counter to our best player
 
I agree with you on this. Zone has the potential to break his rhythm, it's harder for him to cut on drives and he was cold from 3. Hardy has some work to do, because that's a simple counter to our best player
ANd Im saying it broke our entire team. Not saying it was just a Lauri thing, but it threw the way we wanted to play off and we had to rely too much on Sexton's suspect playmaking.
 
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