Haven't you learned your lesson? Stop believing in Lindsey. He won't/can't spend the money. The Jazz got what they paid for this year.
Story of The Season: Injuries
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Haven't you learned your lesson? Stop believing in Lindsey. He won't/can't spend the money. The Jazz got what they paid for this year.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
I've been saying that for months. Where have all of you been?
Every team in the NBA has lost games they should have won. Go find a single team that didn't lose at least two games this year that they were heavily favored in. I'll wait.
JimLes
Well-Known Member
Injuries are just an excuse. The Mavs also had a couple of their starters miss 20 games each, yet they won when it counted. 7-3 in the last 10 while we went a middling 5-5. Lost 3 home games in that stretch because we could not make a shot to save our life in the last minute of a game.
You can't even compare the Mavs injuries to our own. If we only had a couple starters miss 20 games each we would've clinched a playoff spot awhile ago.
Good post, Cy.
The Jazz are an offensively limited team. We need Hood, Hayward and Mack (or at least 2 out of the 3) to make shots at a 45%+ clip in order to score enough to win games--and this assumes both Gobert and Favors are dominating the paint defensively. Even though the Mavs ultimately kinda suck, the Jazz didn't have the personnel to take advantage.
The Jazz are a work in progress. They need shooting. They need bench talent. They need experience in high-pressure situations.
The Jazz are an offensively limited team. We need Hood, Hayward and Mack (or at least 2 out of the 3) to make shots at a 45%+ clip in order to score enough to win games--and this assumes both Gobert and Favors are dominating the paint defensively. Even though the Mavs ultimately kinda suck, the Jazz didn't have the personnel to take advantage.
The Jazz are a work in progress. They need shooting. They need bench talent. They need experience in high-pressure situations.
b_line
Well-Known Member
Our top six players are:
Exum missed entire season
Burks missed 61 games.
Favors missed 20 games.
Gobert missed 21 games.
Hayward and Hood have been mostly healthy. Add it up and it's like the jazz have missed two of their top six ever single game of this season.
Douchebag K
Well-Known Member
Exum is going to come back not only the long defensive pest but also be the missing offensive link he was drafted to be.
53 wins
53 wins
Memphis found a way to make the playoffs despite all the injuries. Every team in the Nba experiences injuries during a season.
Injuries are one of the reasons why the Jazz didn't make the playoffs but not the only one.
The Clippers loss against a team that was playing without 5 starters and we were battling for a playoff spot, is one of the most embarrassing loss I saw in many years.
Douchebag K
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Umm cause Memphis actually had their team all together for at least the first half of the year and only lost player by player toward the end of the season ?? If they'd had our rate of injuries they would have won 25 games
so disappointing... idk if i will even watch playoffs this year
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Douchebag K
Well-Known Member
exactly .. who cares
You underestimate the Joerger factor! Same goes with Carlisle for Dallas.
Douchebag K
Well-Known Member
How many wins did Joerger coax out of his injured team over the last 20 games ??
Bawse Dawg
Well-Known Member
It just kind of feels like an all around bleh season. Like nothing really came of it at all.
We started out looking pretty awesome. Then it was just peaks and valleys from there with no real consistency.
Gobert didn't improve at all, and may have gotten worse.
Hayward has about plateaued and we are now just wasting his career every time we don't make the playoffs.
Hood is the most inconsistent dude on a team full of inconsistent dudes.
It's looking more and more likely that Favors isn't going to take that next step.
Burks was out most of the year.
As was Exum.
The only thing I think you can get excited about from this year is Lyles.
Other than that I just think we'll remember this as that year we pissed away a **** load of games, and nothing else really happened.
I suppose we've basically confirmed (if we hadn't already) that there isn't a superstar on the team. But that's not really a good thing and we can't really do anything about it.
We started out looking pretty awesome. Then it was just peaks and valleys from there with no real consistency.
Gobert didn't improve at all, and may have gotten worse.
Hayward has about plateaued and we are now just wasting his career every time we don't make the playoffs.
Hood is the most inconsistent dude on a team full of inconsistent dudes.
It's looking more and more likely that Favors isn't going to take that next step.
Burks was out most of the year.
As was Exum.
The only thing I think you can get excited about from this year is Lyles.
Other than that I just think we'll remember this as that year we pissed away a **** load of games, and nothing else really happened.
I suppose we've basically confirmed (if we hadn't already) that there isn't a superstar on the team. But that's not really a good thing and we can't really do anything about it.
LifeOnaPlate
Well-Known Member
Injuries
This.
This team had ups and downs, injuries, but the PG issue was a structural issue the whole season : Burke is a bust as a starting PG (it happens, his future is at best as a DJ Augustin/Nate Robinson Thibodeau type offensive dynamo off the bench, at best), Exum who struggled mightily last year on O was at least a lockdown D but got injured and Neto or Mack are ok to have on a bench, not to play 48 minutes...
THIS is the issue to be addressed in the offseason.