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The Jazz are better built for the playoffs this year

Agreed.
During the 4 game win streak we have looked more athletic and engaged on the defensive end. During that streak our opponents have averaged 98 points per game (104, 102, 104, 85) Oh and btw that is without our best defender by far.
For those who want more/better defense, congrats.
 
KqWIN said:
The Clippers were almost exclusively playing switching defense and there's really no question that he was great in that offensive series. Easily the next best offensive player outside of Donovan. 14/4 in just 28 MP on 70% TS. He had 5 turnovers in 6 games. If that's not a good series, I don't know what it would take for you to call it a good series.
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He was absolutely terrific offensively in that series. He wasn't great defensively but honestly no one outside of Rudy was very good on that end in the Clippers series.
 
Man joe was having a rough year. Career lows in 3pt% and field goal%. HIs points, rebounds, and assists were all down from last year as well. And his defense looked to be a career worst as well. Getting T'd up and tossed multiple times too.
 
KqWIN said:
He can play PnR, shoot, defend, and pass all the same. I.e. he does them all very badly. We're really banking on NOP being super toxic....which is a good bet. But it would be hard to be more awful than he has been this season.
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Eh, I think we are more banking on rudy, donovan, conley, bogey, whiteside, paschall, forest, royce, and clarkson but we just thought it might be nice to get a player that has a chance at playing and helping this season and getting better in the future vs a player that is guaranteed not to play this season and will likely only get worse in the future.
 
fishonjazz said:
Eh, I think we are more banking on rudy, donovan, conley, bogey, whiteside, paschall, forest, royce, and clarkson but we just thought it might be nice to get a player that has a chance at playing and helping this season and getting better in the future vs a player that is guaranteed not to play this season and will likely only get worse in the future.
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Oh for sure. I was talking specifically with NAW, the hope is that he does things he’s terrible at better. For this season we are definitely banking on more or less the same team doing something different. I don’t think NAW will even be in the rotation. If he does, chances are he hurts this team because he badly hurt NOP when he played this season.
 
Here's NAW's 2nd-year numbers compared to Malcom Brogdon's 2nd-year numbers (from Basketball-Reference):

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Biggest difference is shooting and (to lesser extent) turnovers. Otherwise, some similarities. Caveats (one negative and one positive): This was Brogdon's worst year and NAW's best as a pro; NAW isn't yet as old as Brogdon was as a rookie.

I look at this acquisition as a Paschall-type gamble: get him in a little lower-usage type situation and see if there's anything there. Paschall's TS% is up about 6.5% with the Jazz from last year and his turnovers are down by half a turnover over 100 possessions, both probably mainly as a function of lower usage (Pascall was similarly on a bad team early in his career, though in a much better organization than NAW). If you can bring NAW's efficiency up similarly, that's a useful player. Mainly it's about the shooting, of course.

(Not predicting it will happen, just saying it's not out of the realm of legitimate possibility. And I'm certainly not expecting any "payoff" this season.)
 
idiot said:
Here's NAW's 2nd-year numbers compared to Malcom Brogdon's 2nd-year numbers (from Basketball-Reference):

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Biggest difference is shooting and (to lesser extent) turnovers. Otherwise, some similarities. Caveats (one negative and one positive): This was Brogdon's worst year and NAW's best as a pro; NAW isn't yet as old as Brogdon was as a rookie.

I look at this acquisition as a Paschall-type gamble: get him in a little lower-usage type situation and see if there's anything there. Paschall's TS% is up about 6.5% with the Jazz from last year and his turnovers are down by half a turnover over 100 possessions, both probably mainly as a function of lower usage (Pascall was similarly on a bad team early in his career, though in a much better organization than NAW). If you can bring NAW's efficiency up similarly, that's a useful player. Mainly it's about the shooting, of course.

(Not predicting it will happen, just saying it's not out of the realm of legitimate possibility. And I'm certainly not expecting any "payoff" this season.)
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NAW's sophomore season definitely showed promise. This year though...dreadful. IMO, the difference between Paschall is that Paschall had skills to hang his hat on. He was a dominant paint scorer and at least had the reputation of being a tough defender. NAW is pretty awful at the thing he's supposed to be good at.
 
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