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Ellis269 said:
Burks has been great in his limited minutes. Looking forward to his expanded role after the all star break. Favors just hasn't looked healthy or effective at all this year. Hope he gets healthy too.

Somebody shared a stat recently that said something to the effect that when Rodney Hood plays well (along with Hayward, Hill and Gobert's typical contributions) the Jazz are basically undefeated. Since he's been hurt, the Jazz have had two games that were tighter than they should have been and two close lossses. The plain and simple fact is that the Jazz don't have a dominant offensive player, and so they need everyone to fill their role. Right now, they're really missing Hood's offense.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how this team looks with everyone healthy and functioning in their roles.
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See, Hayward has shown flashes of being a dominant scorer at times. He's becoming that guy, but then he has games like tonight and yesterday that make me wonder.

He's averaging 22 a game.


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Ellis269 said:
Burks has been great in his limited minutes. Looking forward to his expanded role after the all star break. Favors just hasn't looked healthy or effective at all this year. Hope he gets healthy too.

Somebody shared a stat recently that said something to the effect that when Rodney Hood plays well (along with Hayward, Hill and Gobert's typical contributions) the Jazz are basically undefeated. Since he's been hurt, the Jazz have had two games that were tighter than they should have been and two close lossses. The plain and simple fact is that the Jazz don't have a dominant offensive player, and so they need everyone to fill their role. Right now, they're really missing Hood's offense.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how this team looks with everyone healthy and functioning in their roles.
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The Jazz had a last-second defeat to a tough, motivated OKC squad, and were content with only playing defense for the first nine minutes of the fourth quarter this evening in an attempt to steal one on the road. It's pretty obvious that the Jazz would be better with one of their main rotation players healthy (which leads to moving people like Mack down the pecking order), but the absence of Hood doesn't make Denver better than Utah, just an absence of motivation.

That Hood stat btw speaks just as much about the consistency of the other players on the team - like Gobert, Hayward, and Hill - because if Rodney has a good night that's usually on top of those other guys playing well (because they often do). Obviously, the more players that play well and hit shots the better off a team is.
 
White Chocolate said:
Who knows. I don't even know why Neto played any minutes either. Give the minutes to Exum.

Favors was awesome in the 3rd quarter. He was our only offense and went 7/7 from the floor. Hayward struggled tonight.


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Exum better have not played b/c they're looking after his knee and not playing back to back. ONLY acceptable reason. Anything else about matchups etc is complete BS
 
Ellis269 said:
Burks has been great in his limited minutes. Looking forward to his expanded role after the all star break. Favors just hasn't looked healthy or effective at all this year. Hope he gets healthy too.

Somebody shared a stat recently that said something to the effect that when Rodney Hood plays well (along with Hayward, Hill and Gobert's typical contributions) the Jazz are basically undefeated. Since he's been hurt, the Jazz have had two games that were tighter than they should have been and two close lossses. The plain and simple fact is that the Jazz don't have a dominant offensive player, and so they need everyone to fill their role. Right now, they're really missing Hood's offense.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how this team looks with everyone healthy and functioning in their roles.
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I agree, Burks has looked really good. However, this status quo of this board is usually to look for blame after multiple losses, and often that blame is directed at anything that is lately different, rather taking into account all variables.

Just wait. If Utah loses another game or 2, somebody will suggest Burks is disrupting our offense because his style doesn't fit, etc, etc,...
 
I don't know if that was the most pathetic loss of the season, but it was close. Yeah, they came back but I've never seen a team just sleep walk through the game like they did.

I love Rudy but he's been absolute crap the last couple games. I have faith he'll pull it together though.
 
Nate505 said:
I don't know if that was the most pathetic loss of the season, but it was close. Yeah, they came back but I've never seen a team just sleep walk through the game like they did.

I love Rudy but he's been absolute crap the last couple games. I have faith he'll pull it together though.
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I've seen it plenty. I can't remember any off the top of my head, but I know it's not all that uncommon for teams to have games like this.
 
4th game of a 4 in 5. This was the one I thought they might lose. Just one game tonight.
 
Thunder beat the Nuggets 121 to 106 earlier this month. Tough loss fam! I'm rooting for you guys against the probable clippers in the playoffs though!
 
and all of a sudden our all star talent in gobert, hay, and hill look tired and weak.

lets rest and crush the lakers. if we lose that game we can spazz out.
 
Nate505 said:
I love Rudy but he's been absolute crap the last couple games. I have faith he'll pull it together though.
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You know what frustrates me, and it isn't your comment which I agree with, it's that I am no genius nor part of any FO and I called a few days ago for Gobert to get some rest in the comin stretches of 6 games in 9 days. We have 2 such stretches, one now and one just before the ASG. Gobert has been playing the entire season, all the games, logging heavy MPG. The staff forgets that he is a Gigantic human being and that running up and down a court every second day without a real breather is not good. He is being very tired right now and what is the result ? We lost 2 games in b2b, the game in Denver being a schedule loss. We would have been so much better with Gobert having a bit of rest here.

Just to further my point, what I wrote after the Suns' game on january 18th :

We are hitting the very rough patch of the season where players are really tired after having played a bit less than 3 months at full tilt. 43 games in 85 days means playing every other day.

It's that time of the year when rookies hit the rookie wall, when nagging injuries start multiplying, etc.. We are reaching the moment when coaching staffs have to start thinking about resting key players once in a while. We have a good break till friday, so that will help, but for example after that we play friday 20,21, 23, 24, 26, 28, feb 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 and then all star break. If i where the coaching staff I would look at resting Gobert at some point during that 20-28 january stretch with 6 games in 9 days. After that early february is a wee bit better with only 3 games between january 28 and february 4, but then it sucks again with 6 games in 9 days between feb 6 and and 15.

Gobert isn't the only one the staff should take care of, but he has been the workhorse playing all games this season and is a key for our post season hopes. If he can have 2/3 games off this year, it would really help. 1 game off in each one of those 2 nasty sequences, or at least in the january one because for february the all star break will come soon after would be good.

For example him just staying in Salt Lake city after the game of Jan 23 and not going to Denver for the b2b on 24 and be ready again for the game at home on 26 against the Lakers. You save him 2 good night of sleep by avoiding travel and staying home and give him 2 days rest instead of playing 3 games in 4 days.

And then if you want to do it another time (works for him or another player in need of rest), you can do it as well either in NO or Dallas on 8 or 9 feb : you play in Atlanta on 6 Feb, then either rest a player in NO or have him play and then send him straight home, skeeping the Dallas game. After that the last 3 games before the all star break are at home on 11, 13 and 15 so less tiring.

Really travel and rest management become very important once we reach this part of the season. Resting 1 or 2 games now might be what allow Rudy to have lots of energy in march to secure a standing and start preparing to make noise in the playoffs.

Right now a silly little knee or ankle bruise for Gobert coming in great part out of tiredness would really throw a spanner in our wheel.
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This loss is frustrating, but it is compounded by how much more tired they are making Gobert. This is not good because he is at the centre of our hopes for the playoffs. managing his minutes and game should be a priority. Again he is a 7'1 guy, you have to protect him and 2/3/4 games skipped during the year at strategic moments can make a big difference.
 
Hayward 2-10
ingles 1-4
Hill 6-18
JJ 0-5
mack 0-3 (mack seemed especially bad last night in his 12 minute stint)

Rough night.
 
Ignacio said:
Thunder beat the Nuggets 121 to 106 earlier this month. Tough loss fam! I'm rooting for you guys against the probable clippers in the playoffs though!
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I see you're really interested in history. I remember back on December 14, 2016 when Utah beat OKC 109 to 89 (yikes). Here are a few other fun historical dates, since we're both history buffs:

Nov. 14: Pistons 104, OKC 88
Nov 23: Kings (lol) 116, OKC 101
Dec 13: Blazers 114, OKC 95

Anyway, rooting for you guys, too, bud!
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
I see you're really interested in history. I remember back on December 14, 2016 when Utah beat OKC 109 to 89 (yikes). Here are a few other fun historical dates, since we're both history buffs:

Nov. 14: Pistons 104, OKC 88
Nov 23: Kings (lol) 116, OKC 101
Dec 13: Blazers 114, OKC 95

Anyway, rooting for you guys, too, bud!
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Kings just beat Cavs, and Blazers are actually a decent team.

The pistons loss hurt though.
 
Ignacio said:
Kings just beat Cavs, and Blazers are actually a decent team.

The pistons loss hurt though.
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How does the Cavs having an off night somehow make the Kings a good team? They're not a good team. And they crushed OKC. Yes, all teams lay a few eggs, of course. Utah is no exception. But dang, look at OKC's eggs this year. Like a spring chicken up in here.
 
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