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The Thriller said:
Does this silence those who blamed Gobert for our second round exit? The dude dominated.

Maybe the issue is that we need to surround better players around Gobert? Maybe Q Snyder needs to change his coaching?

because all I heard was that rudy was the cause for our loss.

Thoughts?
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It wasn’t Quins fault lol. It was in large part because our guards couldn’t defend at even an average rate on the perimeter and Rudy was put in an impossible situation of guarding both a wide open layup and wide open corner 3.
 
France played well. Pop did some weird stuff with the lineups for the USA.

Pretty clear that Lavine should NOT be starting. He is an absolute liability on defense. Tatum also basically stops the offense every time he gets the ball.

Holiday
Dame
Booker
KD
Draymond

Tatum should be the 6th man, with Middleton basically spelling Booker. Keldon Johnson should play when KD goes out. Bam should backup Draymond. Lavine should get VERY limited minutes.

Draymond and Bam should not be starting together. Floor spacing is all screwed up. If you're not gonna start Booker, he needs to backup Dame (that worked actually really well in this game). Middleton should start if Booker doesn't.
 
This team is just a cobbled together mess. No leaders either - a guy like Kobe would be ripping these guys.

I’d low-key favor going back to an actual team of non-NBA players that can put together 2-3 months of working together vs. assembling the team at the last minute.
 
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Patty Mills played well against Nigeria. Made some tough shots.

Exum falling around the court and getting frustrated.

Oni was on the court a while but didn't do much at all. I wish Udoka was there.

I like Thybulle - too bad he's not a FA for a few more seasons.
 
JazzyBelle said:
I think the Olympics is one of those things that Athletes love and people who don't watch sports normally love. So basically nerds watch and nerds don't watch cuz they never played a sport
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I played 3 sports in high school. Continue to play racquetball and basketball to this day (51 years old). So not sure what bucket of yours I fit in, but I think the Olympics has been irrelevant for going on 2 decades, nigh-unwatchable for 1.

Gymnastics is about the only event with staying power.

To save basketball they should stop sending pros and go back to sending college kids for the US. Then it might mean something.
 
jazfan23 said:
I love this physical style , wish the NBA was like this
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Yeah the NBA went the completely opposite direction because hey decided all anyone wants to see is a scoring race with no defense. The NBA has just about completely ****ed up their product. Turned the flop into a winning strategy. What a joke. Used to be international play seemed soft, now the NBA is like Charmin compared to the international game. Pathetic.
 
oneye said:
It wasn’t Quins fault lol. It was in large part because our guards couldn’t defend at even an average rate on the perimeter and Rudy was put in an impossible situation of guarding both a wide open layup and wide open corner 3.
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I mostly agree. Rudy was in a no win situation.
 
infection said:
Rudy supposedly looking like **** was a Quin problem.
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I recall Quin being dog walked in round 2. I understand that the small ball the Clippers gave us long and hard might’ve doomed us no matter what. I’m also aware that having an injured backcourt probably doomed us no matter what. But it’s pretty funny to see people get ruffled when we talk about the Jazz’s lack of adjustments during that series. Why didn’t we go big? Why didn’t we go small? Why didn’t we try a zone?

I remember many on here just blaming Rudy for everything.
 
The Thriller said:
I recall Quin being dog walked in round 2. I understand that the small ball the Clippers gave us long and hard might’ve doomed us no matter what. I’m also aware that having an injured backcourt probably doomed us no matter what. But it’s pretty funny to see people get ruffled when we talk about the Jazz’s lack of adjustments during that series. Why didn’t we go big? Why didn’t we go small? Why didn’t we try a zone?

I remember many on here just blaming Rudy for everything.
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I’m so onboard with this post. Can you imagine Ty Lue’s thought process during the 2nd half of what ended up being the elimination game? As the Clips continued to cut into the Jazz’s huge lead, Ty was probably sitting there trying to anticipate what adjustments Quin was going to make so he’d be prepared to counter, but the adjustments never came.

For a team that had so much continuity, they tended to look utterly lost at times when teams would throw something at them that they didn’t expect. Some of that can be chalked up to personnel, but some of it absolutely has to fall on coaching. For all the good that Quin has done for this team, pretty much all if it has came during the regular season. He gets out coached an awful lot come playoff time and if I’m Ryan Smith, I’m one more poor playoff showing away from making a change.
 
oneye said:
It wasn’t Quins fault lol. It was in large part because our guards couldn’t defend at even an average rate on the perimeter and Rudy was put in an impossible situation of guarding both a wide open layup and wide open corner 3.
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It was mostly this. But also, quin should have tried SOME adjustment. ANY adjustment. He did nothing though. That is on Quin.

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