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Official Rising Stars Challenge Game Thread - 2/12/16 - 7 PM MST

Qman said:
Lyles was pretty bad. Hood played okay and only a little. Neto looked good passing but his D outside a team concept isn't good. Nobody got hurt. We win.
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There is no "D" in exhibition. Seriously, the only defense I saw in that game was during the last 2 mins when the World team almost caught up. Oh, and Hood challenged Lyles a bit on one shot. IIRC, Lyles then tried to score with a turnaround and missed.

But I could have been wrong. After several minutes of really paying attention, I got up and did other things while leaving the TV on. I got sick of just watching dunks and wide-open threes. It's like getting to an arena early and watching shoot-around,
 
Glad that I didn't watch it. Sounds like it sucked. In most cases, Jazz players (rookie or not) aren't suited for flashy style of game play like the rising stars game. Like someone else said, they're too disciplined to be show boatin' around. Rudy played very well last year and was all business which I really liked. None of that show boating crap that we are used to seeing in every rising stars/all-stars game every year.
 
Final stats:

Rodney Hood - 11 points (5-6), 3 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1 steal.

Raul Neto - 2 points (1-1), 9 assists, and 1 rebound.

Trey Lyles - 2 points (1-6), 2 rebounds, and 1 assist.

This isn't the type of game that Hood would shine in, he played well, but he just isn't as flashy as some of the other guys and didn't hold the ball for the whole possession like others did. Neto knew his role was to facilitate and that's exactly what he did and the 9 assists prove that. I know there was like 3 possessions in a row where he got an assist and I was wondering how much he was going to end up with. Lyles played the least minutes out of anyone out there and just couldn't make a shot. They were all pretty wide open, but he didn't seem like he belonged, tbh.
 
Hack said:
why did Neto get invited to this game? He's not good enough to be there.
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Had to do wit the game's format: USA players vs. International players. Obviously the pool of talented rookie/second year USA players is larger so their talent top to bottom was top notch. International team had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to fill their roster.
 
Maybe this would explain Neto's poor defense. Lol

"It's hard," Neto said with a smile after his World Team had suffered a narrow 157-154 defeat in the all-star weekend's Rising Stars Challenge. "My game is playing defense, playing hard. But I don't want to look like the crazy guy, the only guy who's going to play defense. So I've got to back up. It's hard. I want to win the game and it's tough when somebody scores on you can't do anything. You don't want to look crazy."
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I wish Hood, Neto and Lyles had come out full effort and D up guys the entire game.
 
I didn't see a dunk contest or three point shootout thread.
Anybody know who the contestants are?

If lavine is there to defend his title then I can't see anybody beating him. He was amazing last year and everything looked so easy for him. I bet he could take it up another level. Which is saying something cause his performance last year was one of the best I ever saw.

If curry is in the three point shootout then he has to be the favorite right?
 
fishonjazz said:
I didn't see a dunk contest or three point shootout thread.
Anybody know who the contestants are?

If lavine is there to defend his title then I can't see anybody beating him. He was amazing last year and everything looked so easy for him. I bet he could take it up another level. Which is saying something cause his performance last year was one of the best I ever saw.

If curry is in the three point shootout then he has to be the favorite right?
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