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Utah Jazz @ Dallas Mavericks Friday 1/27 6:30pm (MT)

Hayward had a much better game than the box score would indicate (not taking away from his 6 assists.) He was active, he made some nice plays, his passing was sharp, he didn't turn it over. And late in the game, he took some aggressive shots that gave me hope. But he still keeps passing up shots and looks so timid on offense. He passed up several shots tonight that almost resulted in the death of my TV.
 
Telling stats tonight:

11/18 from three when it mattered for Dallas. They go a more normal 6/18 and it's a tie game late.

Haywood: seven offensive rebounds. Jefferson: four defensive rebounds. Doubt Haywood got 'em all on Jefferson, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. This is a huge indicator of how poor a defensive rebounder he is.
 
The run at the end of the 3rd was keyed by Sap and Al's departure also helped it. I've been skeptical that Sap could ever be the focal point of a post offense, but he proves me wrong every single night. We're still better with Al and Sap, but that's only because Favors and Kanter are so far away from being ready. It will be interesting to see how the rest of this season plays out.
 
billyshelby said:
Hayward had a much better game than the box score would indicate (not taking away from his 6 assists.) He was active, he made some nice plays, his passing was sharp, he didn't turn it over. And late in the game, he took some aggressive shots that gave me hope. But he still keeps passing up shots and looks so timid on offense. He passed up several shots tonight that almost resulted in the death of my TV.
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I'd almost rather have that then seeing C.J. go away from the cross pick and roll (a good decision occasionally) and see the first dribble and KNOW he's stepping back for the fall-away. I practically never say anything while I watch games, and I audibly said no after the first dribble.
 
Hayward's defense on Marion tonight was excellent. Didn't look so good on his few tries against Carter. Hard to imagine he's a 2, and the idea of Hayward guarding either Terry or Beaubois is incomprehensible to me.
 
billyshelby said:
Hayward's defense on Marion tonight was excellent. Didn't look so good on his few tries against Carter. Hard to imagine he's a 2, and the idea of Hayward guarding either Terry or Beaubois is incomprehensible to me.
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What really bothered me was the double teaming. Sure, start the game doing that since Marion was good last week doing that, but when the threes start falling, and Hayward did well one on one a couple of times, they still doubled most of the time.

What also irked me was Jefferson slapping at the ball in the post. It's Brendan Haywood. Solid position D with hands up and he can't do a damn thing.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
I'd almost rather have that then seeing C.J. go away from the cross pick and roll (a good decision occasionally) and see the first dribble and KNOW he's stepping back for the fall-away. I practically never say anything while I watch games, and I audibly said no after the first dribble.
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Actually, CJ was trying to take advantage of Terry guarding him. On the first fall away, it was an inbounds. Right after the inbounds he posted Terry but it was legitimately blocked. But there were two other shots after that where CJ showed his immaturity. He saw Terry on him and settled for the easy J's which missed. CJ should have been driving on Terr. But he took the shots fast just because he didn't want to lose the opportunity. 1 for 4 as I recall.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
What really bothered me was the double teaming. Sure, start the game doing that since Marion was good last week doing that, but when the threes start falling, and Hayward did well one on one a couple of times, they still doubled most of the time.

What also irked me was Jefferson slapping at the ball in the post. It's Brendan Haywood. Solid position D with hands up and he can't do a damn thing.
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I look at the double teaming as a system issue. Ty's teaching it, the team is following. But yeah, Hayward was doing fine on the Marion posts (as one example) and the command should have gone out to tighten up on the outside and let him go one on one. I'm guessing we'll be more flexible once guys have more experience, but who knows. On the flip side, Dallas made an absurd percentage at the 3.
 
billyshelby said:
Actually, CJ was trying to take advantage of Terry guarding him. On the first fall away, it was an inbounds. Right after the inbounds he posted Terry but it was legitimately blocked. But there were two other shots after that where CJ showed his immaturity. He saw Terry on him and settled for the easy J's which missed. CJ should have been driving on Terr. But he took the shots fast just because he didn't want to lose the opportunity. 1 for 4 as I recall.
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It was one particular play. CJ is not hitting the step back fall-away. Taking the huge step backward and to the side. It's the cross pick and roll. Start in the 1-4 set. Pass to the wing, the big on that side cuts to the weak side block, conveniently hoping to get in the way of the big guarding the weak side big, who sprints over to set the pick for the wing. CJ tried to jump the defender by surprise, by going away from the pick. Defender wasn't fooled, so CJ went for the step back, with me saying no the second the ball hit the floor.
 
billyshelby said:
I look at the double teaming as a system issue. Ty's teaching it, the team is following. But yeah, Hayward was doing fine on the Marion posts (as one example) and the command should have gone out to tighten up on the outside and let him go one on one. I'm guessing we'll be more flexible once guys have more experience, but who knows. On the flip side, Dallas made an absurd percentage at the 3.
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Which is why I was more than okay with starting the game double teaming, but once they started hitting the threes, and Hayward proved capable shutting Marion down, they should have gone away from double teaming, and they didn't really do that that much.
 
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