Feeling Better About This Team

[homeytennis]

Coming out of college NAW looked like a better player than Tyrese Maxey. The consensus was that NAW projected to be a good shooter and Maxey didn't really. Maxey has clearly put in the work to improve across the board. I wonder if NAW has it in him to improve. However, Maxey was younger than NAW and did have the superior FT%, so maybe that indicated his shooting potential.

Here is my Best Buy moment. Over the weekend I bumped into a member of the Stars who was chatting with someone I know. The Stars player was talking about how hard the Stars/Jazz offense is to grasp and understand. The Stars player played 4 years of college and his dad is a coach so the comment was interesting. I'm hoping our two new players spent the break immersing themselves in learning the offense and Quin's terminology so they can react instead of think when play resumes.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

This is one of NAW's more encouraging games recently. Late December vs. the Blazers: 27 pts, 4 asts, 3 rebs on 10/16 shooting, 6/9 from 3pt. This is right before he went out with covid.

 

[Jingled]

I still can't believe we couldn't find a rotation player with Joes expiring and two second round picks. Someone to come in and immediately help us in the stretch run of the regular season and in the playoffs. Of course, maybe that was never the goal...maybe the only goal was to save Ryan Smith a few million dollars.

 

[fallenchicken]

Look, the Ingles trade made sense. Joe was done anyway, and we flipped his expiring for a young guy who could be someone. And trying to phrase this delicately, the injury made the move easy for everyone but it would have had to happen anyway. Joe was really bad for us this year and the team has improved in his subtraction. He was getting a ton of minutes and other guys deserved them more at this point. It’s far from enough to make us a contender, but it did make us a little better.

 

[babe]

I thought maybe this thread would be the traditional Champ Train. Not a what'r we gonna do now that we're down and out theme.

If you look at the winners lately, meaning champs over the past seasons, it's all star power not sound strategy or coaching. Just buy some weapons and let'm run. loyalite to oldsters is not the formula.

 

[Jingled]

Final stretch of the season starts tomorrow night against our potential first round opponent, the Mavs. About 7 weeks until the playoffs start, 24 games left...14 road and 10 home, 4 back-to-backs. According to tankathon's website the Jazz have the 5th hardest strength of schedule the rest of the season. Really excited to see how we fare these last few weeks of the regular season and in the playoffs!

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Hope this team comes out ultra focused. This is the time to flip the switch

 

[LogGrad98]

Hope this team comes out ultra focused. This is the time to flip the switch

I am expecting a flickering light, like with a weird kid riding around wearing an exaggerated clown mask, telling them they need to play the game.

 

[Cptgrnlngs22]

I still can't believe we couldn't find a rotation player with Joes expiring and two second round picks. Someone to come in and immediately help us in the stretch run of the regular season and in the playoffs. Of course, maybe that was never the goal...maybe the only goal was to save Ryan Smith a few million dollars.

Addition by subtraction my man plus we got Paschall and house to fill his minutes. Now what to do with Rudy Gay…..


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[Cptgrnlngs22]

Final stretch of the season starts tomorrow night against our potential first round opponent, the Mavs. About 7 weeks until the playoffs start, 24 games left...14 road and 10 home, 4 back-to-backs. According to tankathon's website the Jazz have the 5th hardest strength of schedule the rest of the season. Really excited to see how we fare these last few weeks of the regular season and in the playoffs!

Got tickets!!!! Super excited!!!


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[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I'm actually worried about the Jazz's offensive production in the playoffs. They need another guy who can go off for 30 pts. Conley and Bogdanovic are really complementary scorers this year.

 

[LogGrad98]

I'm actually worried about the Jazz's offensive production in the playoffs. They need another guy who can go off for 30 pts. Conley and Bogdanovic are really complementary scorers this year.

Yeah and last year we had Clarkson. This year we have bad photocopy Clarkson. We need him to be the flamethrower he was last year, not the sputtering wet bottle rocket he is now.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Yeah and last year we had Clarkson. This year we have bad photocopy Clarkson. We need him to be the flamethrower he was last year, not the sputtering wet bottle rocket he is now.

Rudy Gay was supposed to be this amazing guy who could score 25 on any given night.

 

[LogGrad98]

Rudy Gay was supposed to be this amazing guy who could score 25 on any given night.

He might if he can be healthy, who knows? We paid him to rehab here, basically.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

He might if he can be healthy, who knows? We paid him to rehab here, basically.

I'm starting to think the Jazz might be a legit championship-level team if they just drafted Desmond Bane instead of Udoka.

 

[infection]

Yeah and last year we had Clarkson. This year we have bad photocopy Clarkson. We need him to be the flamethrower he was last year, not the sputtering wet bottle rocket he is now.

We didn’t get photocopy Clarkson. We got JLIII with a bump stock.

 

[LogGrad98]

We didn’t get photocopy Clarkson. We got JLIII with a faulty bump stock.

ftfy

 

[Jingled]

I'm actually worried about the Jazz's offensive production in the playoffs. They need another guy who can go off for 30 pts. Conley and Bogdanovic are really complementary scorers this year.

It seems strange to worry about the offense when we have the number one offense in the league, but I actually agree with you. The playoffs are just so different than the regular season. The blender doesn't work nearly as well un the playoffs...it becomes a lot more about isolation in the playoffs and we don't have a lot of great iso players besides Donovan. Clarkson can create his own shot but is obviously very inefficient.

 

[infection]

ftfy

You also forgot a supportive person next to him saying “Keep going! I’ve got more rounds!”

 

[SoberasHotRod]

It seems strange to worry about the offense when we have the number one offense in the league, but I actually agree with you. The playoffs are just so different than the regular season. The blender doesn't work nearly as well un the playoffs...it becomes a lot more about isolation in the playoffs and we don't have a lot of great iso players besides Donovan. Clarkson can create his own shot but is obviously very inefficient.

Our shooting seems much less lethal this year. On the other hand we have a little more variety in ways we can score.