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The past, the present, and the future: Rockets at Jazz 2/26/18 7:00 pm MST

Saint Cy of JFC said:
Uhh, nah. I think the Jazz should have won.

Houston was on a b2b from Denver.
They were missing 3 of their top 6 (arguably top 5) players.

The Jazz let this one go by playing like absolute garbage other than a nice stretch from the bench unit in the first half. I know Houston is actually a good defensive team this year, but they arent that good. Utah executed like garbage and settled for bad shots.
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I agree that it was winnable. Unfortunately, Donovan was god awful tonight at best and no one except Rudy wanted to play in the fourth
 
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Games like this hurt so bad.

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The Jazz don't have enough offense to compete with a team like Houston. Offense was going to be hard to come by as it was, then we traded out Hood.

Rubio had a pretty typical game. Gobert as well. Mitchell didn't have a great game, but was comparable to what he what he was doing in December. So where are the points going to come from? Houston put undersized defenders on us half the night and no one could get a bucket.

We could have used a little more Alec Burks.
 
Catchall said:
The Jazz don't have enough offense to compete with a team like Houston. Offense was going to be hard to come by as it was, then we traded out Hood.

Rubio had a pretty typical game. Gobert as well. Mitchell didn't have a great game, but was comparable to what he what he was doing in December. So where are the points going to come from? Houston put undersized defenders on us half the night and no one could get a bucket.

We could have used a little more Alec Burks.
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The Jazz only needed an average offensive output tonight to win.
 
Mitchell just isnt a great player yet. He is a really good player who has great moments, but he cant consistently knock down off the dribble 3's or get to the foul line. Teams seem to be getting better at forcing him into the shots he is bad at and preventing him from getting to the rim as easily as before (which should change when we start playing **** defensive teams again). Against a team like Houston you have to be able to exploit the mismatch on switches and the Jazz just dont have enough talented individual scorers, especially with the Hood trade. Not saying we win this game with Hood, but it probably would have been a cleaner effort with him taking 15 shots instead of Jae Crowder.

Houston just plays so small they are able to switch on the perimeter really well. Jazz couldnt break the paint consistently enough so they werent forcing rotations. Mitchell couldnt really attack off the PNR because of how well they switch and blow up most of what the Jazz wanted to do. Jazz seemed to solve that with their run in the first half, but then it all just fell apart and they lost focus. Then they got frustrated with the refs and lost even more focus.
 
Jazz settled for outside shots all night, but especially late. Without Capela, it should've been a Gobert dunkfest.

One thing I do not understand at all is the Jazz's defensive strategy on switches. Something is wrong when we end up with Gobert checking guys at the three point line all night long.
 
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