twentytwo
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Pre Season game 2 Jazz @ Blazers---Monday October 11,2010---8:00 pm.
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mkbelle
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I think Big Al is going to be great once he settles in and feels more comfortable in the Jazz system. I got the impression from one of his interviews that he's been a bit overwhelmed (my word, not his). Decent game for him though, and I expect that he will improve with each game.
Stifle Tower
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One more game and then I think Sloan has to start locking in a rotation. I'm not saying the starters need to go 30+ mins, but guys have to get used to playing together. This team is different than in past years when the same starters have been in place. Jazz will have 3 new starters - perhaps 4. Sure, a couple of those players have been in the Jazz system, but they haven't played with Al or Raja.
InGameStrategy
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Why? The starters are getting 10-25 MPG together, and the last thing that I want is for Sloan to get into some tired old rotation rut that ignores chemistry or matchups. To his credit, he is giving different players and different combinations playing time. I'd rather that he use the playoffs to continue experimenting with matchups and instilling competition for contested minutes and positions on the floor. Sloan might end up gravitating back to a robotic substitution pattern, but the difference might be that the backups aren't a big dropoff from from the players ahead of them
InGameStrategy
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Poppycock. It probably helps that he's slimmed down and is a bit more serious about his job, but the bigger difference is that Sloan is finallly giving Fes the crucial minutes that he needs for development--not the paltry average of 3 or 4 minutes per available game that he's had for the past three years. Most players--and especially big men--don't develop in such short stints.
Marty McFly
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I seriously hope that I am wrong and you are right. Seriously, seriously hope.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
It's never the same starters. Precision offense & help defense...both require players to anticipate what the others are going to do in certain situations. At least he's giving Deron, Millsap and Jefferson a chance to develop some chemistry. But the team is different if you have AK at SF vs. CJ. Or if Raja is the starting SG, for example, you know you can leave him out there on an island against even the best. You can't do that with Hayward or Miles.
I'm not saying matchups shouldn't determine some PT. I just think Sloan needs to decide on his starters and let the 5 of them gel.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
This.
Playing time certainly helps, but you can develop a lot in practice. Fesenko seems to finally be serious about his game. I don't evem mind the finger-wagging, if that's what it takes to get him to play nasty.
The big thing with Fesenko is whether he can keep this up. Not 18/7 every night, but just the effort. If he gets abig head after this game and goofs around he'll be quickly grounded. I hope for the sake of the Jazz that Fess has knocked some sense into himself. Where he needed improvement(apart from FT shooting/conditioning) was mostly omn the mental side.
I also think the if the Jazz have to go far in the playoffs, one of the young guys needed to have a Wes Mathews like rookie season or better. I am not sure who amongst Hayward, Thompson, Evans is going to be it. But expectations from Hayward is probably the highest.
I also think the if the Jazz have to go far in the playoffs, one of the young guys needed to have a Wes Mathews like rookie season or better. I am not sure who amongst Hayward, Thompson, Evans is going to be it. But expectations from Hayward is probably the highest.
I was there, because I don't know when next the Jazz will get to play in Memorial Coliseum, and because the seats were much cheaper than regular-season Rose Garden ones. $33 for fourth row right behind the season ticket seating.
Took some video of the last 50 seconds or so here. The cheering after the Blazers free throw was because everyone gets a chalupa coupon if they score 100, regardless of if they win or lose. But the Jazz got in the final exclamation point with Fesenko grabbing the missed FT with 3 seconds left and going in for the dunk.
Still, if we can get Fesenko playing like tonight more often (minus that turnover there), it would bode very well. It was almost getting to the point where every time the Blazers would get close, I'd look over at the bench and hope Fesenko was about to get called in soon.
Took some video of the last 50 seconds or so here. The cheering after the Blazers free throw was because everyone gets a chalupa coupon if they score 100, regardless of if they win or lose. But the Jazz got in the final exclamation point with Fesenko grabbing the missed FT with 3 seconds left and going in for the dunk.
Still, if we can get Fesenko playing like tonight more often (minus that turnover there), it would bode very well. It was almost getting to the point where every time the Blazers would get close, I'd look over at the bench and hope Fesenko was about to get called in soon.
If Fes pulls his head out of his *** he'll get PT. I don't know why that is so hard for some here to understand (S2).
And if he's starting to pull his head out of his ***, then good for him. Took him bleeping long enough.
"Poppycock"? Seriously? Are you Mary bleeping Poppins?
And if he's starting to pull his head out of his ***, then good for him. Took him bleeping long enough.
"Poppycock"? Seriously? Are you Mary bleeping Poppins?
Gyp Rosetti
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If Bell rounds into shape/form well, I'd love to see a lineup of Williams-Bell-AK-Jefferson-Fes with Watson-Miles-Heyward-Millsap-Okur off the bench. It won't happen but I can dream.