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[MTS]

Kyle Anderson getting ejected for complaining about a missed call on a play where his teammate got injured is very strange in a series where a player got nothing for throwing objects onto the court during live play.

Edited - he did not get ejected, just a technical.

 

[The Midnight]

Kyle Anderson getting ejected for complaining about a missed call on a play where his teammate got injured is very strange in a series where a player got nothing for throwing objects onto the court during live play.

Edited - he did not get ejected, just a technical.

Yeah but letting Murray off was so the NBA can have this series more competitive.

 

[jom2003]

There's a lot of Don vs Rudy discussion and whose "fault" it was....my takeaway is that really fked up when we had them. They're really good players.

Exactly. Such argument is for the Celtics. For the past three seasons or so their management have built the perfect roster but their star players simply couldn't get it done.

 

[idiot]

With the Celtics I do get the sense that they don't have like a killer. I don't think they have dudes that shrink either. I just think the style of play they turn a 5 game series into a 6 game series. And you contrast that with Minny who seems to have no chill and Ant is a stone cold killer... and they turn a 5 game series into a sweep.

Celtics take a few nights in chill mode every series it seems. Sometimes they still win. Cavs played well and shot the ball well. Lets see if they can do it again.

And then the Wolves get blown out by 27.

Winning game after game is just hard.

 

[jazznik]

There's a lot of Don vs Rudy discussion and whose "fault" it was....my takeaway is that really fked up when we had them. They're really good players.

They are really good but without the desire to be great. Mitchell when he was on the Jazz did not care to play defense at all and Gobert never put any serious effort into becoming a better offensive player. A center that cannot back up and score over a 6'2" guard is an embarrassment. It's really hard to build a team around players lacking the drive to get better and work on their limitations. After each playoff defeat they were content to point fingers at others.

And they did not like each other and did not have each other's back, especially in the last years.

 

[underdog]

NBA playoff basketball is absolutely awesome. That was one hell of a hard fought game. I miss the Jazz being in the playoffs.

Exactly my thoughts. Would be so much fun to watch the Jazz battling now in the playoffs the way the Knicks are.

 

[Deleted member 365]

They are really good but without the desire to be great. Mitchell when he was on the Jazz did not care to play defense at all and Gobert never put any serious effort into becoming a better offensive player. A center that cannot back up and score over a 6'2" guard is an embarrassment. It's really hard to build a team around players lacking the drive to get better and work on their limitations. After each playoff defeat they were content to point fingers at others.

And they did not like each other and did not have each other's back, especially in the last years.

Gobert improved drastically offensively over the years. He’s just never developed a post game which might just be based on his high center of gravity. He was rough offensively in those first few years. His hands were awful. Then he became the greatest lob threat in the league.

 

[fishonjazz]

Kyle Anderson getting ejected for complaining about a missed call on a play where his teammate got injured is very strange in a series where a player got nothing for throwing objects onto the court during live play.

Edited - he did not get ejected, just a technical.

I think Murray was fined $100,000 fwiw

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[KqWIN]

Gobert improved drastically offensively over the years. He’s just never developed a post game which might just be based on his high center of gravity. He was rough offensively in those first few years. His hands were awful. Then he became the greatest lob threat in the league.

The idea that everyone can become skilled at the NBA is so silly. Rudy was an extremely hard worker and got better on both ends.

 

[KqWIN]

Minnesota's crowd has been disappointing.

I get it's a blowout now, but from the start of the game I expected a Utah-tier crowd given they're up 2-0 on the defending champs, and instead got a meh one.

I wonder if the ticket prices were jacked up. Just from my personal experience, the Jazz crowds were great until the point at which ticket costs priced out many normal fans. There were some Jazz playoff games where I spent wayyy more than I normal would only to show up the game and realize it was a library. I spent all the money had at the time, it was so disappointing that non one was even standing up or cheering.

Either way, huge statement win by the Nuggets.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I wonder if the ticket prices were jacked up. Just from my personal experience, the Jazz crowds were great until the point at which ticket costs priced out many normal fans. There were some Jazz playoff games where I spent wayyy more than I normal would only to show up the game and realize it was a library. I spent all the money had at the time, it was so disappointing that non one was even standing up or cheering.

Either way, huge statement win by the Nuggets.

I laughed this season when all the season ticket holders were bitching about resale value on their tickets end of season and then everyone was shocked how loud the crowds were at the end of the season. lol poor people aren’t too cool to get loud.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

There's a lot of Don vs Rudy discussion and whose "fault" it was....my takeaway is that really fked up when we had them. They're really good players.

Yep, they are very good and very fun players, with flaws. Undoubtedly a winning team could be built around them, but we failed to do that. And the personality clash, especially after disappointing finishes did not help matters. Overall I'd say we got like a bottom 5% outcome for all possibilities out of those Mitchell Gobert teams. Much of the damage being self inflicted of course. It is a real disappointment. And the next half decade could hurt even more.