Where did Paul Millsap go?

[NCJazz]

Millsap is a great player, but he is too small to deal with Aldridge who is near 7 ft. Memo or Fes would have been a better option, especially Memo as he can draw one those 7 footers out a little. I'm not sure how many points the Jazz scored inside, but it couldn't have been many. Those two were sitting in a zone inside shutting down everything. Even though Memo is rusty, he should have seen 30 minutes.

Memo not allowed to play 30 minutes yet. Fes or Elson could have done a much better job on Aldridge I believe as well.

 

[InGameStrategy]

Millsap is a great player, but he is too small to deal with Aldridge who is near 7 ft. Memo or Fes would have been a better option, especially Memo as he can draw one those 7 footers out a little. I'm not sure how many points the Jazz scored inside, but it couldn't have been many. Those two were sitting in a zone inside shutting down everything. Even though Memo is rusty, he should have seen 30 minutes.

According to the play-by-play, the bigs scored zero points in the paint during the fourth quarter; Williams and Watson each had more paint points than the entire frontcourt.

I think that even Fesenko could've kept with that scoring pace by the bigs--while actually putting more presence down low.

And within 2 minutes of Millsap subbing in for Elson (whom Aldridge had outscored also), Aldridge scored another 4 points, which he followed up with another 4 points down the stretch, good for 7 points above LA's career PPG average en almost exactly his average minutes.

Coaching 101: don't put a "6'8" player (maximum) back in the game on a 6'11" player who was already pwning the shorter one.