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Friday Nov. 19 7 pm MST: Spurs @ Jazz - Irreconcilable Differences

Marty McFly said:
Bell really sucks. Every time he was brought back to replace Miles/Price I wanted to throw up.
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Bell could play better, but his output this season is not even close to being as bad as Geofferson or some of the other nitwits on this club. Hell, Raja makes up for his less-than-expected play with his intangibles, what the hell do these other clowns do? LOL @ the notion of calling Raja out when it is a much bigger problem attributable to others on this hapless roster.
 
Given that Phil Johnson took the reins tonight, and little changed in terms of what seemed to be obvious adjustments (except that maybe Elson played a few more minutes than average, compensating for Fes playing less than average) or lack of enforcement of effort/defense (SAS sassed us badly on the boards), then it can be easily inferred that PJ sought to mimic Sloan's approach to game management, going with "his guys" down the stretch, even though Jefferson was subpar and Bell was being outplayed by Miles.

Or perhaps PJ is the one who originates the ineffective in-game strategy that Jerry merely adopts.

Or a little of each.

Or maybe it's mutual obliviousness between 'ol Jer and 'ol Phil.
 
I haven't watched this game yet.

But it sounds like Jefferson cost us bigtime.

I'm sure this loss has NOTHING to do with our bench. Both rookies played nothing... Fess only played one minute...

I'm also positively certain that this loss had nothing to do with our starting PG chucking up 6 three pointers as if he were playing for the Warriors and only making 1 of them. While also allowing a cheating Tony Parker dump 24 points on his head.

I'm also sure that this loss has nothing to do with our Max player shooting 30% with 4 turnovers.

Or with Millsap only getting 11 shots.

Or that SA is freaking 10-1 (ahead of the lakers. their only damn loss was to the hornets, a team who they're currently tied with for the #1 record in the league) and looking stronger than they've been since their last championship.

All well!

Who needs to look at any of the aspects of the game when we can blame everything on Al Jefferson?
 
The Thriller said:
I haven't watched this game yet.

But it sounds like Jefferson cost us bigtime.

I'm sure this loss has NOTHING to do with our bench. Both rookies played nothing... Fess only played one minute...

I'm also positively certain that this loss had nothing to do with our starting PG chucking up 6 three pointers as if he were playing for the Warriors and only making 1 of them. While also allowing a cheating Tony Parker dump 24 points on his head.

I'm also sure that this loss has nothing to do with our Max player shooting 30% with 4 turnovers.

Or with Millsap only getting 11 shots.

Or that SA is freaking 10-1 (ahead of the lakers. their only damn loss was to the hornets, a team who they're currently tied with for the #1 record in the league) and looking stronger than they've been since their last championship.

All well!

Who needs to look at any of the aspects of the game when we can blame everything on Al Jefferson?
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Because there is no excuse for a center not helping out and not boxing out.

Because AJ was outperformed in almost every aspect of the game. Not just by Tim Duncan; by their 2nd-year starting big, too.

Because Duncan rebounded over him, Parker scored under him, and Ginobili scored around him (with AJ barely lifting his arm, much less challenging the shot). And this is all in the NBA.com replay alone.

Because there were two near-7-foot alternatives who do not score as much but more than make it up in rebounding and controlling the paint, whereas there isn't a legitimate alternative at point guard, even if he's making shots at a 30% clip.

Because Al was team-worst -18 vs. Elson at a team-best +6. Such a differential is more than coincidence and warranted 5 to 10 minutes more playing time to the bigs and 5 to 10 minutes less to Little Al.

Because the Utah coaching staff preaches defense but only enforces it on some players but not others.

Because even this 9-1 San Antonio team was beatable with better on-court play, better sideline leadership, or both.
 
Is it just painfully obvious to me that most of the time when Bell and Jefferson are on the court at the same time it just never seems to get going (offensively or defensively) which makes some sense to me as they are the 2 new comers getting the most minutes and the highest expectations. With lack of options and/or experienced players as alternatives I hope they can pull their heads out soon cause it's really hard to shoot, rebound or play defense with it so far up licking your own colon.
 
Iin the post game interviews the coaches and players said there just isn't enough time to get quality work in practice to improve their rebounding. So I just found out on the flight over they had a written test and one of the questions was, Spell Rebounding and here are some of the answers:

1. Wee-bounding
2. Rabowndin
3. Cookie
4. Uhhh what?
5. Never heard of it
6. What is getting pushed under the basket?
7. Naptime
8. Teehee
9. What dat doe
10. No
11. *and one had a picture of boobs*
 
InGameStrategy said:
During the 2009 regular season, Okur averaged less than 2 offensive rebounds per 30 minutes.

Which was, of course, less than Boozer, Fesenko, Koufos, and Millsap.

The lineup of DW, Bell/Price, Miles, Millsap, and Elson brings Utah from a 6 point deficit to a 2 point deficit.

At the end of the third quarter, Jefferson -10 and Elson +10. Not a precise measure, but when you have that kind of differential, it tells you something. Unfortunately, CJ is chucking and missing.

I want to see DW-Miles-AK-PM-Elson/Fes. Not gonna happen--again. Jefferson has come back in, even though he doesn't deserve to play with the poor rebounding performance in the third quarter. Sloan (and evidently his clone Phil Johnson) has a nasty habit of just going with tradition and not analyzing what combos are really working. I think that they call such analysis in-game strategy.
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Actually Memo boxes out, sacrifises his body and let others get the rebound. Rebounding is a team work. Memo can very well average 8-9 RPG if he would act like Carlos, Zach Randolph. You should be able to remember the uncontested rebounds and the rebounds Carlos got by pushing his teammates. You also should know that the rebounding rate of Fes or freakin' Kosta is not comparable to Memo's when Memo gets 30-35 mins of PT and other ones get 5-10. There's big difference. You should also be aware of the fact that Okur generally is out of painted area due to his role on the offensive schemes which greatly affects his chances of getting offensive rebs. You may argue that long shots cause long rebs but I think a 9 year old kid also knows that Jazz do not take many 3s. THe fact is the Jazz have always been a great rebounding team during the tenure of Boozer / Okur and I guess Okur averaged 28-30 mins in his Jazz career before he got injured.
 
The Spurs are a sharp, well-coached veteran team with a legit Big 3 and strong role players. (Their) Jefferson played well, Blair played well, Duncan is still big inside and on the boards. They have decent depth at the guard and forward spots. A good learning experience for the Jazz.

Right now, the Jazz are Williams, Millsap and some other guys, not really a Big Three yet.
 
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