Why have we been so bad vs the clippers?

[SoUjazzfan]

I'll tell you who worries me.... The refs. If they continue to fall for the flopping and bitching from the Clips it could make things really difficult. Touch fouls on the perimeter will be huge and I hope we can get impartial officiating.

 

[Ron Mexico]

You know who has not been bad against the Clippers? Exum. He has played some of his best games against the Clippers. I hope that trend continues in the playoffs. I think he is the only one that has had better than average games in all the 4 games against the Clippers this year.

In 4 games against the Clippers Exum:
Has put up a 158 offensive rating
His Net Rating is +53
His +/- in those 4 games is +19.7 (The only Jazz man to be positive against the Clips this year)
His True Shooting % is .733
He leads all of those categories for the Jazz against the Clippers
This is in 64 minutes against the Clippers

It is a kind of small sample size so who knows but it is a positive trend heading into the game and hopefully an indicator of how he matches up with them.

 

[yamers]

I also Mbah a Moute plays amazing defense on hayward.

ALSO, the one win we had, we had him in foul trouble.

 

[tleikheen]

In 4 games against the Clippers Exum:
Has put up a 158 offensive rating
His Net Rating is +53
His +/- in those 4 games is +19.7 (The only Jazz man to be positive against the Clips this year)
His True Shooting % is .733
He leads all of those categories for the Jazz against the Clippers
This is in 64 minutes against the Clippers

Throw that out the window Snyder likes Mack ,he likes the slow down offense and Mack fits that.I think Clippers like the Jazz slow down offense even more though.

 

[jope]

Throw that out the window Snyder likes Mack ,he likes the slow down offense and Mack fits that.I think Clippers like the Jazz slow down offense even more though.

Everything slows down in the playoffs though. Might bode well that we've been playing that way all season.

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[YB85]

That said I see Crawford as our kryptonite. He is one who, if he gets going, we have no answer for.

This! Crawford joins the long list of guys who just eat Jazz fans' souls. Eddie Johnson, Ricky Pierce, Terry Teagle, every San Antonio Spur since 1999, etc.

 

[Beantown]

I actually think this series will come down to bench play. If Hill, Hood, Hayward, Favors and Gobert are starting/healthy, that means we have one of the deepest benches in the league.

 

[Game6Conley]

Jamal Crawford LUCKY against the Jazz?! Now I've heard all the excuses here LOL. Look at the game he snatched from the Jazz grasps at the end of last season, there was nothing lucky about that, it was I'm better than you and there's nothing you can do to stop it, and they couldn't.

 

[fishonjazz]

Jamal Crawford LUCKY against the Jazz?! Now I've heard all the excuses here LOL. Look at the game he snatched from the Jazz grasps at the end of last season, there was nothing lucky about that, it was I'm better than you and there's nothing you can do to stop it, and they couldn't.

Look at his season stats. He doesn't worry me. He will play back down to his averages.

 

[Joncolton]

Not against us he won't. Even in games with George Hill playing, we've struggled against shooting point guards. Wasn't it just a couple of nights ago that Damian Lillard had his career high 59 points against Utah? Every time you look point guards are going off against the Jazz;

* Isaiah Thomas had 29 points, and 15 assists.
* Westbrook was clutch against us all season.
* Goran Dragic had 27 points vs us and the Heat win.
* Eric Bledsoe scores 31 vs the Jazz.
* Etc, etc, etc.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Crawford was the Clips leading scorer in at least 2 of their games vs us.

 

[MTS]

Not against us he won't. Even in games with George Hill playing, we've struggled against shooting point guards. Wasn't it just a couple of nights ago that Damian Lillard had his career high 59 points against Utah? Every time you look point guards are going off against the Jazz;

* Isaiah Thomas had 29 points, and 15 assists.
* Westbrook was clutch against us all season.
* Goran Dragic had 27 points vs us and the Heat win.
* Eric Bledsoe scores 31 vs the Jazz.
* Etc, etc, etc.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Crawford was the Clips leading scorer in at least 2 of their games vs us.

Crawford isn't a point guard.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

Not against us he won't. Even in games with George Hill playing, we've struggled against shooting point guards. Wasn't it just a couple of nights ago that Damian Lillard had his career high 59 points against Utah? Every time you look point guards are going off against the Jazz;

* Isaiah Thomas had 29 points, and 15 assists.
* Westbrook was clutch against us all season.
* Goran Dragic had 27 points vs us and the Heat win.
* Eric Bledsoe scores 31 vs the Jazz.
* Etc, etc, etc.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Crawford was the Clips leading scorer in at least 2 of their games vs us.

This sort of cherry picking isn't useful. What about the nights when Utah shut down other guards? When Portland played in Utah, for instance, Lillard had one of his worst games of the season. The defense was pretty good against him that night.