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One of the most embarrassing performances..

they made tons of stupid mistakes (horrible passes) and yes, that was embarrassing. The loss itself wasn't so embarrassing due to the opponent but a lot of the plays we made were embarrassing. Some of the strategies (coaching) were embarrassing too.
 
fishonjazz said:
they made tons of stupid mistakes (horrible passes) and yes, that was embarrassing. The loss itself wasn't so embarrassing due to the opponent but a lot of the plays we made were embarrassing. Some of the strategies (coaching) were embarrassing too.
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The only thing that drives me crazy on the coaching side is we switch on the perimeter too easily. Make them work for it... don’t switch unless you have to.
 
tleikheen said:
grit and grind Jazz in the age of high scoring teams that win ...... Jazz just like last year coming down the stretch with non athletic players (like Snyder was at Duke)and struggling to score .....Do we have to hear what a great coach Snyder is just because his teams lose holding the high scoring teams under their yearly average but barely get 90 points themselves.
Jazz are not winnning anything with a 6'6 PF (Crowder) in the playoffs .
Dante Exum when he comes back should have no leash on him at all like Mitchell or Jazz aren't going anywhere with non athletic players.
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After the recent string of games where the offense was great this seems like a post that lacks some objectivity to me. It's pretty simple. That Jazz offense generally creates a ton of open 3's or layups if they run it correctly. Over the last month or so the team has been running it well and making 3's. Tonight they were sloppy and missed 3's. Playing defense is almost completely unrelated to offense other than allowing transition opportunities if they are turning it over a lot. Rudy generally impacts this side if he's in there so it is pretty constant unless he's out. Snyder's offense is well designed and works when the players play well. The reality is that guys were making bad reads and decisions out there.

I do think it's possible that Exum helps with this depending on how he comes back. Jae Crowder being 6'6" is fine. Teams are going smaller and smaller so there are lots of nights where this will be useful. If they go bigger you can always have Favors ready to go.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
The only thing that drives me crazy on the coaching side is we switch on the perimeter too easily. Make them work for it... don’t switch unless you have to.
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Agree 100% the other team usually wants you to switch. Maybe try a little harder to not give the opponent the matchup they want.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
The only thing that drives me crazy on the coaching side is we switch on the perimeter too easily. Make them work for it... don’t switch unless you have to.
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In fact, we ****ed up several times on the defensive end because of players unnecessarily switching, when the original defender was actually in a better position to stick to his man than switch. It was painful to watch.
 
fishonjazz said:
Agree 100% the other team usually wants you to switch. Maybe try a little harder to not give the opponent the matchup they want.
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A few times the screen was set so high I was like it’s a non threat.

Same thing in the potty game they set the screen so high yet we go over... if they beat us with off the dribble 40 footers I’m cool.

I think they may just do it automatically so everyone is on the same page.

I also enjoy AB missing the switch up high once a game that leads to a layup. Although AB was pretty good in the first half... outside of the fast break he goofed. If he played and just did the simple stuff and could make the easy reads he’d be so good. He’s regressed imo with regards to B.B. IQ.
 
dipship31 said:
Last night wasn't a good example though, we played fantastic defense overall.
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I thought the effort was great. Royce fought through the screens and did fantastic on harden.

It was good but it could have been better. Offense and turnovers were a much bigger problem.
 
I think the Ricky, Favs, Rudy combo may be worth monitoring still. That group was -5 to start the game... +1 in second half, but that was in part because Ricky put up 7 pts in that stretch.

In Porty the were -6, and -9. Against Dallas it was good. Porty was his first game back...
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
A few times the screen was set so high I was like it’s a non threat.

Same thing in the potty game they set the screen so high yet we go over... if they beat us with off the dribble 40 footers I’m cool.

I think they may just do it automatically so everyone is on the same page.

I also enjoy AB missing the switch up high once a game that leads to a layup. Although AB was pretty good in the first half... outside of the fast break he goofed. If he played and just did the simple stuff and could make the easy reads he’d be so good. He’s regressed imo with regards to B.B. IQ.
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I think part of the regression is overthinking and trying to be too unselfish on occasion and helping too much on defense.
Last night he had that horrible pass on the break to mitchell that almost seemed like a half assed alley oop attempt (rockets defender touched it with his pinky btw). The old burks would have just took it himself and scored in that 2 on one situation.
The other big time **** up was on another semi fast break with harden as the defender and burks passed the ball to gobert ankles. Not a bad read on that one (gobert would have had an easy dunk) just a horrible pass. Again, the old burks probably just goes right at harden and scores or gets to the line.... or even makes a good pass to gobert.
I think quin has got burks mind messed up. His confidence is crap (never thought I would say that), he is hesitant and nervous and always worried to make a mistake and get benched..... which causes him to make mistakes and get benched. Also, he isn't smiling anymore. On the bench or the court. He doesn't seem to be having much fun. Seems like a broken man.
Too bad he didn't get traded.
 
AB seems to be missing some bball smarts. Seems lost and even when he has a decent read on the flow of the game tends to make bad decisions. And he still plays pretty out of control. I wish he had been traded too.
 
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