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What is Wrong with Donovan?

jope said:
Locke made a comment in a recent podcast that Donovan has mentioned since being named an all star he hasn’t been having fun playing basketball. All the stuff that comes as expectations with stardom are likely starting to weigh on him.
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Dog days of the season too... a break is good.
 
The problem with Donovan is that we haven't adapted to the new players. For most of the first half of the season, he has played amazing basketball. He earned his All Star status. However, the addition of Clarkson and return of Conley has disrupted his rhythm. It's obvious. He's a very good teammate and willing passer. Well, Conley and Clarkson are ball dominant not even mentioning how Ingles can run the offense and Bojan can put his head down determined to shoot. Donovan is deferring to these guys too much.

If we are going to be a contender, it's on Donovan. Right now, I feel like we are screwing with his upward momentum because we are all over the place with what offense we are trying to run. When we slump, it's because we don't keep our identity and people panic. That includes Donovan sometimes too. We go from one streaky scorer in Donovan to sometimes 4 or 5. It's illogical to think we are always going to know when to feed the hot hand. Mudiay caught fire for a bit last night, and then he cooled off yet we kept feeding him. He doesn't have the skills to maintain scoring at that rate for 20+ points regularly enough to abandon the offense on his behalf. Clarkson is the same way although he is a better scorer than Mudiay for sure.

If we keep taking the ball out of Donovan's hands, we're going to pay the price. We aren't going to be a legit contender. Guys like Harden, Lillard, Westbrook, and many other elite scoring wings were relied on even in tough times early in their careers. They became elite because they were allowed to figure it out. We aren't letting Donovan figure it out when we throw him in a corner and abandon him for a guy who can't maintain scoring as well as he has shown in his still just 2.5 years in the league.
 
Royce was one of our better players against HOU. But we subbed him out for Conley who did nothing.

Donovan is 5 times the player when he starts by shooting 15 foot shots. We are so stuck on analytics that he is focused on the rim or the 3. Teams cant guard him when he hits 3 jumpers from 15 ft and his confidence rises. But when's the last time he did that?
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Royce was one of our better players against HOU. But we subbed him out for Conley who did nothing.

Donovan is 5 times the player when he starts by shooting 15 foot shots. We are so stuck on analytics that he is focused on the rim or the 3. Teams cant guard him when he hits 3 jumpers from 15 ft and his confidence rises. But when's the last time he did that?
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This seems to be a jazz Hallmark this year, stop doing what works. When was the last time we ran a true PnR with Ingles and Gobert? When was the last time we truly played the blender? Mitchell has been off, Ingles has been off, the entire defense has been off. Basically we are in deep ****. If they don't figure this out there is a non-zero probability we don't even make the playoffs let alone get home court in any way. Could easily fall to 6th or lower.

And they let the trade deadline go with nary a move.

Yay.
 
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