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Game Thread: OKC @ Utah. 7pm MST

Stifle Tower said:
We have no way of knowing how he is in practice or in the locker room. However, in previous games, he's seemed to be pretty calm on the sidelines. I think he took his shot and it worked.
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I heard on the radio yesterday, locke was saying that snyder made them practice for around 3 hours on monday because they were running a drill called "perfects" that they run a set very slowly and every little thing has to be perfect.
Locke said that he was laying into them pretty hard.

Locke also alluded to the idea that snyder had them practicing hard and for a long time on the day before a game may give them tired legs and hurt thier chances of winning the actual game..... The refreshing thing was that locke believes that quin understands that this is a marathon, rather than a sprint, and that snyder would rather sacrifice an actual loss on his teams record if it means that his team doesn't take shortcuts and learns what he is teaching.
I love that approach.......... not worrying so much about wins and losses and instead focusing on developing his team. (i like that approach for the time being anyways)

I also like that quin didn't make any subs right after yelling at his players last night........ he left them in there to learn and work through the struggles, which they did (rudy was on the court during that explosion from quin and ended up a +23 for the game)
 
mellow said:
So I didn't check Jazzfanz last night, but I guess we are in love with Trey again? Cool.

I want to thank Jazzfanz for preparing me for teenage daughters.
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I advise you to watch the games and form your own opinions
 
I just had a chance to watch the game. I hate to be a downer, but that's about as unimpressive as a double-digit win can get. I know there are some gaudy rebounding numbers, but we are still rebounding miserably. OKC is just flat-out terrible, and we allowed them to dictate to us most of the game (we really only had about 15-18 minutes of good basketball).

Ok, a silver lining: Kanter and Trey have been better.

Also, Q is a badass.
 
NAOS said:
I just had a chance to watch the game. I hate to be a downer, but that's about as unimpressive as a double-digit win can get. I know there are some gaudy rebounding numbers, but we are still rebounding miserably. OKC is just flat-out terrible, and we allowed them to dictate to us most of the game (we really only had about 15-18 minutes of good basketball).
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I think most people are more excited about the response than the result. The team responded well to a bad situation, which bodes well for when they inevitably find themselves in future bad situations.
 
NAOS said:
I just had a chance to watch the game. I hate to be a downer, but that's about as unimpressive as a double-digit win can get. I know there are some gaudy rebounding numbers, but we are still rebounding miserably. OKC is just flat-out terrible, and we allowed them to dictate to us most of the game (we really only had about 15-18 minutes of good basketball).

Ok, a silver lining: Kanter and Trey have been better.

Also, Q is a badass.
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Most of the game? The Jazz dominated the game after Snyder's tantrum, which was midway in the 2nd quarter. Just flat out dominated the game.
 
I was at this game(Jr. Jazz, nosebleeds). I was surprised at how empty it was in there. Having gotten off to a better start this year and having a top 5 pick I thought we would start to see a little better attendance. Hopefully this means that there will be good deals on lower bowl tix again this year.


luckily I missed the 1st quarter.
 
fishonjazz said:
I heard on the radio yesterday, locke was saying that snyder made them practice for around 3 hours on monday because they were running a drill called "perfects" that they run a set very slowly and every little thing has to be perfect.
Locke said that he was laying into them pretty hard.

Locke also alluded to the idea that snyder had them practicing hard and for a long time on the day before a game may give them tired legs and hurt thier chances of winning the actual game..... The refreshing thing was that locke believes that quin understands that this is a marathon, rather than a sprint, and that snyder would rather sacrifice an actual loss on his teams record if it means that his team doesn't take shortcuts and learns what he is teaching.
I love that approach.......... not worrying so much about wins and losses and instead focusing on developing his team. (i like that approach for the time being anyways)

I also like that quin didn't make any subs right after yelling at his players last night........ he left them in there to learn and work through the struggles, which they did (rudy was on the court during that explosion from quin and ended up a +23 for the game)
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Well if they were going slow motion doesn't seem like they would get tired..bored yea..tired.. I hope not. Besides they had Sunday off so being tired should not be an excuse for the poor start.
 
cowhide said:
Well if they were going slow motion doesn't seem like they would get tired..bored yea..tired.. I hope not. Besides they had Sunday off so being tired should not be an excuse for the poor start.
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I don't think it was an excuse for the poor start.
Locke was simply saying that snyder will work his team hard in practice, even if it gives the team tired legs for a game.

The point of my post was that right now snyder cares more about developing and teaching this team than he does about wins and losses.
I'm glad about that
 
I remember so many being Gordon lovers and having a dislike of Exum for our pick. Caught some flack for saying good things about Exum...love seeing more and more posters liking this kid.
 
jazzrule said:
I remember so many being Gordon lovers and having a dislike of Exum for our pick. Caught some flack for saying good things about Exum...love seeing more and more posters liking this kid.
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That describes me.
I wanted Gordon and was not very high on exum. Though I thought the jazz picking exum was the correct pick since he was the best rated player available when we drafted

I felt the same way with the trey pick.
I was not a fan of burke but at the same time I thought it was the right pick based on our needs and what the experts were saying about him
 
I wish someone would make a video. Start it with Quin yelling WAKE UP WAKE THE WAKE UP RUDY. Then show all the highlights from late in the 2nd Qt on.
 
jazzrule said:
I remember so many being Gordon lovers and having a dislike of Exum for our pick. Caught some flack for saying good things about Exum...love seeing more and more posters liking this kid.
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Most were way excited about the Exum pick. The only haters of it that I remember were AKMVP and Frank.
 
Nate505 said:
Most of the game? The Jazz dominated the game after Snyder's tantrum, which was midway in the 2nd quarter. Just flat out dominated the game.
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That's not what I saw. I saw OKC play like **** to close the half (most of their fouls were atrocious), and the jazz coasted for parts of the second half. 15-18 minutes of good play.
 
After being down 2 points at half, it was a one-point game with less than 4 minutes to go in the third period............ but we DOMINATED after Q's tantrum, right? The fanboys on this site are amazing.
 
NAOS said:
After being down 2 points at half, it was a one-point game with less than 4 minutes to go in the third period............ but we DOMINATED after Q's tantrum, right? The fanboys on this site are amazing.
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To be fair, outscoring a team by 34 over a 30 minute stretch is sort of dominating, regardless of method in which it happened. It's barely over +1/min, which is dominating in basketball, even if the stat by itself doesn't look it. Was 28 points over a 26 minute stretch when Snyder blew up. Jazz were down 11 when Snyder went off and the Jazz outscored the Thunder by nine over 2 1/2 minutes immediately after.

EDIT: If you don't think what the Jazz did over the portion of the game after Snyder did his thing statistically, which was 1.077 points per minute, then do you find the 1.104 points per minute loss by the 76ers to not be dominating? Or is the quarter of a tenth of a point per minute the deciding factor in that 53 point loss?
 
The Thunder collapsed at the end of the second quarter. Watch it again if you can. We played neck-and-neck until about 3 and half minutes to go in the third. Then the jazz pulled away. Use whatever colorful adjectives you want.
 
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