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Should the Jazz start Josh Howard against the Lakers?

Matthew Thomas Castleton

Matthew Thomas Castleton

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I think that we need to. To be able to compete with them, we need to be able to match their offensive firepower with our starting lineup. I want Howard to be named the starter at small forward. Hayward plays much better at the shooting guard position because he just is not strong enough to match up against small forwards. I want this depth chart:

PG: Devin Harris, Earl Watson
SG: Gordon Hayward, Raja Bell/Alec Burks
SF: Josh Howard, C.J. Miles
PF: Paul Millsap, Derrick Favors
C: Al Jefferson, Enes Kanter
 
No. The Lakers play Metta World Peace off the bench and he has always given our charmin soft wings a ton of problems with his physical play. I think Howard could actually take the blows that World Peace throws much better than Miles, Burks, or Bell getting beat up by him. Also, don't really see the point in messing with the lineup during a 5 game win streak.
 
Bell will come to play tomorrow, he seems to enjoy defending Bryant. And yes, leave things alone for now, especially with Bell remembering that it helps to get points in the paint once in a while.

I still wish Bell were coming off the bench, but now's not the time.
 
If it ain't broke don't fix it. This would be a bad time to make a change like that and disrupt the chemistry we have going, especially when the gains are dubious at best.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
No. The Lakers play Metta World Peace off the bench and he has always given our charmin soft wings a ton of problems with his physical play. I think Howard could actually take the blows that World Peace throws much better than Miles, Burks, or Bell getting beat up by him. Also, don't really see the point in messing with the lineup during a 5 game win streak.
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Here's an idea. Lets play Milsap off the bench at the SF to counter this World Peace guy. I'm convinced Sap could keep up with him. It was said before the season that Sap could see some time at the 3... This seems to be like a good time for that.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
No. The Lakers play Metta World Peace off the bench and he has always given our charmin soft wings a ton of problems with his physical play. I think Howard could actually take the blows that World Peace throws much better than Miles, Burks, or Bell getting beat up by him. Also, don't really see the point in messing with the lineup during a 5 game win streak.
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. . . except that a successful lineup against one team (or five of them--at the ESA--for that matter) does not necessarily work against another.

Your post sounds like the damaging, lazy strategy that Sloan implemented for years. When Ol' Jer had Stockton and Malone (and no options better than Ostertag and whatever wings were lured/drafted onto the team), then there was little need for tweaking the lineup; those guys were almost always the best choice. Sloan never realized the importance of analyzing lineups when he was left alone without Stockalone.

This current team, however, among the deepest (despite their inexperience) that the Jazz have ever head, and there is absolutely a different approach to take against a team with two legit seven-footers as opposed to the strategy against the fair-to-middling teams that Utah just valiantly conquered.

Millsap doesn't do as poorly against the twin towers as his might suggest, but I would prefer starting Harris-Howard-Hayward-Favors-Jefferson. That's a lineup that matches up about as well as Utah can. Also, I like the concept of considering Millsap against Murphy at the 4 or even Metta at the 3. Mansap and Murph are veterans that make more sense as a matchup than Favors, whose height and strength might be wasted chasing Murphy around the perimeter to defend outside shots. Also, I like the notion of rewarding Howard for improved performance--and the experiment of replacing one vet (Howard) for another (Bell). Reassuringly, both JH and RB have been doing better, and if Corbin chooses not to reward Howard with the starting nod, Utah will probably be OK if he uses merit-based adjustments during the game (think in-game strategy). The bigger challenge is battling Bynum and Gasol, and AJ+DF seems to be the better way to go.
 
ElRoach0 said:
Here's an idea. Lets play Milsap off the bench at the SF to counter this World Peace guy. I'm convinced Sap could keep up with him. It was said before the season that Sap could see some time at the 3... This seems to be like a good time for that.
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If I were going to make a change this is what I would make. Artest is a bigger, slower SF. Millsap would be perfect on him.
 
Not only do I want the Mamba killer continuing to make Kobe stare at his hands in disbelief; I want him to score a new career high against him as well.

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This, tonight.
 
actually if i had my choice for a starting line up tonight it sould be
Harris, watson
hayward, Burks/bell
Millsap, howard
Favors, Evans
Jefferson, Kanter

that would give the Fakers fits
 
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