Bawse Dawg
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Lauri massive game, Ace with a nice line. Exactly what you want with a loss. But I still fear we will win too much on this current trajectory
Game Thread Nov 13, 2025 07:00PM MT: Atlanta Hawks @ Utah Jazz
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Jazz nearly beat a team missing two starters on a second game of a back to back and people like "damn we might be too good"
I agree that we don't need to be worried, but I think the counterpoint here is that we were close with a team that shot 51% from 3. If Okongwu shoots his normal percentage from 3, then we win.
Offensively we have a lot of players playing extremely well right now.
HadAnEffectHere
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The bottom of the league is so bad defensively this year that the Jazz are still only 25th in defense, lol.
SoUjazzfan
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The fact we don't guard the three point shot is what allows players to shoot such high percentages. Its not strange at all people shoot their highest percentages when wide *** open. Our defensive scheme ( or lack thereof) will ensure plenty of losses
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Bawse Dawg
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Correct
The Jazz were specifically leaving Okwongu wide open which seemed to be the game plan. It ended up not being a good game plan.
In general our defensive strategy is to protect the paint vs the 3pt line which is hard to watch sometimes, but at least works better than whatever we were doing last year since we are 24th in defense this year vs 30th the past two years. We are basically designed to live and die around opponent 3pt shooting variance.
The Jazz are currently 19th in opponent 3pt%. The statistic guys who study this generally say that opponent 3pt% is more random vs something a team can control. I'm not sure that makes sense to me since obviously players should make more when wide open vs tightly guarded.
Step-Back Lauri
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The strategy might work if they could react after someone getting too hot from downtown, taking them out from open threes and maybe allow others shoot them until they get hot... Or if not, then react again. But the team has neither personnel or coach to draw good defense.