Last game of the season -- Jazz @ Blazers 4/11/2018 8:30 pm MST

[fishonjazz]

Ugh. Horrible hangover. Drank way too much. Slept like ****. Gotta go to work now. So not worth it.

 

[Miggs]

Tough place to play the back end of a B2B.

Jazz were tired, and it showed.

Thankfully we'll have a few days until the next game. We'll be fresh, and focused.

We ended up 9-8 on the second end of back to backs. Not saying it’s not true but it really shouldn’t affect us that much.

 

[Hekate]

Synder outcoached tonight
Why would Neto even see the floor?
Rudy got dominated he seemed slow tonight. Hope he can fix that for the playoffs. Also, Rubio needs to shoot more he is the engine.

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Neto played because Rubio got into foul trouble and he actually looked decent.

 

[sgjazzfan]

Synder outcoached tonight
Why would Neto even see the floor?
Rudy got dominated he seemed slow tonight. Hope he can fix that for the playoffs. Also, Rubio needs to shoot more he is the engine.

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Snyder did not get outcoached. Jazz played poorly. He can't go out there and make shots. Portland made tough, contested shots, and Jazz couldn't make open 3's which allowed the Blazers to pack the paint, then the refs wouldn't give the Jazz any calls, which I would have been fine with if not for the ridiculous calls against the Jazz. That foul on Exum where he stonewalled Lillard being the worse, but there were 4-5 calls against the Jazz that were less of a foul than 4-5 no calls against the Blazers. Not only the points were a problem, but it changed the momentum of the game.

 

[str8line]

Here are my observations:

#1 Portland was really prepared and focused. They came to play and played well.

#2 The refs gave every call to Portland in the first half. It was comical.

#3 Mitchell got some good schooling which should help in playoff prep.

#4 It is complete and total bullcrap that we had to play such an important game, game #82, on the 2nd night of a back to back. Whoever schedules NBA games is a freaking moron. That should never happen. If our playoffs lives depended on last night, how incredibly unfair that scenario would have been.

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Would they have scheduled GS or Cleveland on a B2B for the last game of the season? Seems easy enough to make sure no team has that.

 

[sonofthebigdog]

You don't beat too many people shooting 35%. X looked horrible and only two Jazzmen with a + were Neto and Ekpe.

 

[sonofthebigdog]

Consistently bad. He's shooting 38.6%/31.6%. It's almost as if he doesn't know what a good or bad shot is.

A good shot is when the ball touches his hands.

 

[Miggs]

A good shot is when the ball touches his hands.

Seemingly.

 

[RRJazz]

I only watched the second half and it looked to me like they had their bodies and minds set on the playoffs. Against the Warriors they were flying. Last night they were slow and tired. Surprised they only gave up 102 points.

If they were to lay a turd, yesterday was the day.

 

[Mission Accomplished]

Snyder did not get outcoached. Jazz played poorly. He can't go out there and make shots. Portland made tough, contested shots, and Jazz couldn't make open 3's which allowed the Blazers to pack the paint, then the refs wouldn't give the Jazz any calls, which I would have been fine with if not for the ridiculous calls against the Jazz. That foul on Exum where he stonewalled Lillard being the worse, but there were 4-5 calls against the Jazz that were less of a foul than 4-5 no calls against the Blazers. Not only the points were a problem, but it changed the momentum of the game.

Exum and O'Neal should have played more their length was slowing down Lillard and co. He should have told Rudy not to double on the PnR leaving Nurcic wide open at the basket. Or at least hedged with another player like one guarding Davis.

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[Mission Accomplished]

Neto looked quick but he is just coming off of an injury of his wrist he couldn't shoot on a day where we needed offense. He needed to bring in Burks a perfectly healthy former lotto pick. I don't know why he would take injured Neto out there.

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[Et tu Brute]

You don't beat too many people shooting 35%. X looked horrible and only two Jazzmen with a + were Neto and Ekpe.

X has looked almost as bad as he did in the first half os last season. Looks like he has little control out there and horrible shooting and feel around the rim. Defense ok I guess.

I will make these excuses for him. The slow temp offense and the reality that he is not considered a point guard by the coaching staff put him in positions where he is less liekly to succeed. But I am not going to bash Quin for this. He is more astute than I, and he obviously is putting Dante in the positions he thinks he can best help the team.

I am not sure he should see many minutes in the post-season. O'Neale has outplayed him, and Neto probably does what Quin wants with back-up point guard minutes better. I'm thinking Dante will still see the court, just for a few minutes here and there just on the off chance he can spark some good sequences.

I am a bit down about my man X tbh. And this will sound like I am being too quick to judge too early from his comeback... But I think if he gets another option from another team to be a back-up point guard he should trust his instincts and perhaps sign with them. Follow his dream of being a point guard in a different offense where his mistakes and inept shooting may not destroy the system being run.

Dante is a point guard. I am not sure whether he will ever be an NBA calibre one, but he is certainly a bust if he plays any other position imo.

Having said all that. If he was to be offered a multi-year deal from the Jazz, I kind of would understand if he takes it and just tries to become an effective role player etc. Job security is important I understand.

 

[fishonjazz]

Well, maybe we sign X for cheaper than we thought if he keeps playing like he has recently.

 

[fishonjazz]

Jazz have not lost 2 games in a row for a long long time (about 3 months iirc) so they should win game one.

 

[Mission Accomplished]

Exum is fine he is quick and attacks the defense. On a team where everyone jacks up threes we need more people to attack.

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[str8line]

X has looked almost as bad as he did in the first half os last season. Looks like he has little control out there and horrible shooting and feel around the rim. Defense ok I guess.

I will make these excuses for him. The slow temp offense and the reality that he is not considered a point guard by the coaching staff put him in positions where he is less liekly to succeed. But I am not going to bash Quin for this. He is more astute than I, and he obviously is putting Dante in the positions he thinks he can best help the team.

I am not sure he should see many minutes in the post-season. O'Neale has outplayed him, and Neto probably does what Quin wants with back-up point guard minutes better. I'm thinking Dante will still see the court, just for a few minutes here and there just on the off chance he can spark some good sequences.

I am a bit down about my man X tbh. And this will sound like I am being too quick to judge too early from his comeback... But I think if he gets another option from another team to be a back-up point guard he should trust his instincts and perhaps sign with them. Follow his dream of being a point guard in a different offense where his mistakes and inept shooting may not destroy the system being run.

Dante is a point guard. I am not sure whether he will ever be an NBA calibre one, but he is certainly a bust if he plays any other position imo.

Having said all that. If he was to be offered a multi-year deal from the Jazz, I kind of would understand if he takes it and just tries to become an effective role player etc. Job security is important I understand.

That air-ball by X was woeful. He still had some really nice plays last night but he had some terrible ones too. It seems like a lack of concentration/confidence/will power affected him.

 

[Ron Mexico]

I like that mission accomplished only shows up when the jazz lose so he can criticize things.


Obviously what we have been doing and lineups have been working. Of course we should have stuck to what's been working.

 

[sgjazzfan]

Exum and O'Neal should have played more their length was slowing down Lillard and co. He should have told Rudy not to double on the PnR leaving Nurcic wide open at the basket. Or at least hedged with another player like one guarding Davis.

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Well, its tough when Exum gets called for a foul for stonewalling and playing perfect D on Lillard. Honestly, that was one of the worst calls ever imo. Completely cut off Lillard, took away his lane, Had both arms straight in the air, and didn't lean in whatsoever, but Lillard, so foul... Neto really didn't play all that much, and nobody else could do anything on offense, so might as well give it a try. As far as Rudy... Lillard was on fire, made great passes, and Nurcic made some tough contested layups. Jazz offense struggles when outside shots aren't falling, and has all season. They have gotten away with it a lot because their defense is so good, but last night the Blazers played well, and made some tough shots, also any time the Jazz would try to get anything going, the refs would swallow their whistle on a Jazz drive, leading to a transition basket for the Blazers, or call a weak, or flat out bad call against the Jazz.

 

[kabenac]

I want to see us break OKCs will so they implode the team.

 

[Miggs]

****, if we beat OKC, even more reason for George to leave. That, along with a more developed team could catapult us to the 3 seed next season. Then, the year after, the 1.