I don't think we have a normal season at all though. Bet we get 50ish games and some of that may be in a bubble setting.
Unfortunately you are going to hear a lot of "well if we had Bojan in the playoffs" and "but Conley was injured and didn't have time to gel" and "Niang has pictures of Snyder double-teaming a goat with a furry" (well that last one we won't hear it but it can't be that far off), and so they will roll it all back.
Jamal was playing for George Floyd and Brianna Taylor, they were on his sneakers. He manufactured something that worked for him. He wasn't thinking, he was just competing, like a street fight he wasn't gonna lose. He wasn't worried about what the coach would think or the other players, he was just puttin up points, he had no conscience. Something I was hoping Mitchell would do. There was one point, after he had made an impossible three and we got the rebound and instead of putting up a wide open three he dribbled into the paint and tried to bounce pass to Gobert in traffic. I'm like WTF! Still three minutes to play but I knew we were sunk after that.
No doubt. Murray is a career 35% 3 PT shooter and 43% FG shooter. Career 15 ppg, with 18 ppg the last 2 seasons. We are making him look better than Steph Curry could hope to be. I think it is largely a dearth of defense overall that is causing some of these outlandish performances in the bubble, definitely that is it for us. We have shown we have no one, at all, who can hang with Murray for even a 2 minute stretch, let along a whole game.
Honestly unless we got a really good offer for Mike then this is the right plan.
Those percentages are what they've had to shoot to beat us... they are also an incredible amount higher that their regular season performance. I'm looking for a tiny, miniscule regression to the mean to help us out in game 7.
Also, 2020 is the darkest timeline. She would love to get our hopes up again after a huge 3-1 lead and then watch it dashed in a Game 7 where Jamal Murray literally goes NBA Jam and shoots fiery basketballs that can't miss and literally torch the net.
I feel comfortable saying he isn't a rich man's Steph Curry. I think he's better than his regular season averages for sure... part of this is an anomaly imo.
The Jazz really need to come out in the 1st quarter and make sure he gets no clean looks. He can reach flamethrower status later, but he can't be on the entire game like he has been.
It is the darkest timeline. They all need felt goatees.
The anomaly is we cannot defend it. He is the one foot crane kick of basketball players right now.
Yeah... Royce gotta earn that extension. He can do much better than he's shown... it may not make a difference if Jamal just gonna hit step backs.
That is an illegal kick to the head... I'm team Johnny forever.
In addition to that, Jazz needs to deny him the ball. No ball, no shot. If he's going to make shots, make him run through screens just to get the ball the entire game and let us see if can still make them consistently.
There were times where we had a hand up and it was contested... he still made it... not sure what else you can do. He had one like drifting mid range pullup that he made look routine.
