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Our problem on offense

Big Al no doubt knows he's the first option for scoring, so he keeps the ball and works for a shot, which he's good at. What would help reduce the effectiveness of double teaming would be for the wing players to keep moving and Jefferson to PASS them the ball at the first sign of a double team, instead of waiting for 2-3 guys to basically box him in and leave him no passing lane and only a difficult shot as an option. The wing guys could pass the ball back to him if they don't have a good shot. There's plenty of time on the shot clock for that.
 
Legatus said:
The problem with the offense is, that our PGs, SGs and SFs suck - end of story.


Really? I say:

Despite having the opponent's best post defender on him in most of the games and being double teamed sometimes, he has

(1) the team's lowest TOV%,
(2) the best AST% of all big men,
(3) a better A/TO than Millsap(and all other big men except Evans)

and

(4) he has a FG% of .472, which means he is shooting 2% better than the team average, while being the first option. Also it's the 2nd best FG% of the starters behind Millsap (.511).

(1) https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/UTA/2012.html#advanced::14
(2) https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/UTA/2012.html#advanced::11
(3) https://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/utah/cat/assistTurnoverRatio/utah-jazz
(4) https://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/utah/cat/fieldGoalPct/utah-jazz
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47.2% blows for a big. Try again.
 
northeast said:
If he draws 3 guys, there should be easy shots for somebody else... I don't see that as a problem if he draws 3 guys and then passes.
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...my question is this: what team in there right mind would send 2 guys to cover Jefferson, let alone 3 guys, when 1 guy can render him totally ineffective 75% of the time??? Jefferson is your pro-to type school yard basketball hip hopper, who prefers to dribble the ball till the nails are pounded back into the court, then force up a shot which has virtually no chance of going in....but sometimes does! He passes as a last option, not as part of the team concept. He plays no defense, yet is paid more money than most Wall Street executives and fat cat lawyers!
 
Because no one in our backcourt has range beyond a dunk.

Hayward has been horrific and Harris has never really shown much range... Raja is... Well old...
 
DutchJazzer said:
Our problem on offense :Al Jefferson's black holery.

he must pass as soon as the double teams comes.but he does not. he stagnates and passes when he is swarmed by 3 guys
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This. Actually over the past couple weeks Al has gotten better (fwiw it's not like he could've gotten any worse) at recognizing the double-team and passing out of the double-team, but it's not quickly enough and he usually passes directly out to Harris - instead of looking to the weakside where the open shooters are so the ball sticks and we never get into a situation where we can swing the ball around and the other team has to hustle on their rotations. Then we're basically back to square-one with the 24-second clock winding down.

The biggest problem is we lose the cutting action when we post up Al, and Millsap isn't a traditional post-up player (1. He usually steps off the block and tries to face-up and 2. He's more of a positional post-up player who flashes and tries to establish position quickly rather than a pound it in on the block guy).

I've mentioned before how poor our execution is on our UCLA sets, so we're pretty much an iso postup team in the halfcourt - and when you go up against length and Al and Millsap are struggling - so will the Jazz and there's no way to incorporate the other guys. Utah's at their best forcing turnovers on defense and then pushing the ball in transition - but again the goal is to learn how to play winning basketball and alot of those opportunities disappear in the playoffs without a halfcourt offense to support them.
 
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