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Game Thread Nov 25, 2022 08:00PM MT: Jazz at Warriors


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We need a new stat: one that tells created looks for team mates. Makes or misses. Or if someone has that kind of stats I am interested to see. I bet teams have some software for this but never seen stats of these.
 


I swear you live in an alternate universe. The jazz have by no means played a nightmare schedule. It had the potential to be but it actually ended up being a lot softer with a lot of teams missing key players or being in a rut when we faced them. Also the wolves have looked over the last few weeks regardless of the schedule and it is stupid not to acknowledge that. Obviously I hope it all falls apart but they seem to be figuring some things out. The same thing goes for the Lakers. They are looking a lot better and to say otherwise makes no sense.
Wow.

I think if the Lakers played 5 straight games at home against the Rockets, Magic, Spurs (2x), and Hornets, with no b2b's, and the Jazz played 5 straight road games in 7 nights, 2 of them b2b's, @ Mil, @ Cle, @ Bos, @ Phx (2x), but in one of the games the Cavs were missing Garland and in the Suns games they were missing CP3, I swear this guy at the end of it would be like "Wow the Lakers are looking way better than the Jazz now! And the Jazz had a soft schedule too - so many teams missing key players."

Wait until the Jazz struggle for a stretch against the non hell part of their schedule and for the Wolves/Lakers to thrive against the non gimme parts of their schedule, and *then* it becomes a meaningful discussion.
 
I think it’s extremely weird how some posters on here use Sexton as a scapegoat when we got dudes playing like absolutely trash and he isn’t one of them. Andy Larsen is doing it too. He will tweet negatively about Sexton but doesn’t do it with other guys. Like why did he post that one drive by Sexton against Draymond when he had a ton of amazing plays besides that? Just super weird.
"Why aren't y'all slobbing as hard, wet, and long as I am?" is also super weird
 
Sexton is going to get critiqued hard. He's a lottery pick who just signed a long term contract.

He's also a very interesting case study in terms of how to evaluate basketball, especially when you have Conley on the same team providing a contrasting impact ability
 
He has been making the easier passes now as guard should do. IMO becoming a true pg requires of recognising better the off ball cuts. But Collin shares the ball well with the obvious limitations he is so far having - he hasnt schooled to be pg. He finds open shooter behind the arc and in the middle when he is driving himself. But as long as he can not replicate half of the IQ-Mike is having he is better off being the secondary ball handler in agood team. Bt we do not have lot of options with Mike being out.u

But the way he is now sharing ball more than ever shows he cares and might even learn the more difficult floor general duties over years. It is ok if he does not but nice if he does.
More than not finding too well off the cuts team mates I think he is doing OK. The way Mike is setting the overall tone of the offense is then another ballpark of skills. And he is with that so elite its not easy to find someone like him.
I have seen him make multiple extremely difficult high IQ passes to teammates for easy dunks and layups. Not just simple passes to guys who then do all the work to get the bucket. He has been setting the table for teammates to get easy buckets with very high IQ plays.
 
I have seen him make multiple extremely difficult high IQ passes to teammates for easy dunks and layups. Not just simple passes to guys who then do all the work to get the bucket. He has been setting the table for teammates to get easy buckets with very high IQ plays.
I have seen few too but I look closer now on these becoming matches. I have been all my life a lover of bigs so I admit that aside Lauri I am looking more closer what KO and Kessler does than our guards.
 


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