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Hollinger on Jazz-Spurs Series

Totally agree with Hollinger. Play the big 3, and whatever you do, Favors has to get at least as much time as Al and Sap. The way Al is playing, it might be a good idea to start Favors and put a light up his butt. So far as Howard we all pretty much have said the same thing before the playoffs began.
 
From Hollinger's chat. I'm not making excuses for the Jazz, but the league recognizes that SA is playing at a really high level.

Jimmy (Memphis)

The Spurs are flat out terrifying. What's the key to beating them? Hope they don't play like that?

John Hollinger (12:05 PM)

I'm amazed the conversation is "can Miami win the title?" or "can LA win the title?" rather than the obvious "can anybody beat the Spurs?" This has been the best team in the league for the past three months, by a pretty considerable margin. Injuries can always level the playing field, but at full strength I can't see who beats them.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
Utah: Utah just needs to win the next two by a combined 46 points and it's right back in this thing. The Jazz's pick-and-roll defense has been abused by San Antonio's guards, which isn't a big surprise if you look at the offensive and defensive rankings of the two sides. For Utah, the next step is to start thinking about A) how to do this much, much differently, and B) next season.

One solution is to start Alec Burks on the wing for an ineffective Josh Howard. Burks is the more capable offensive player, and while defense has been a problem in the first two games, the Jazz also have failed to score at a respectable rate.

Beyond that, it's Derrick Favors time. Here's an amazing stat: Favors has played 47 minutes in this series and is a plus-6. The other 49 minutes the Jazz are minus-52. Granted, garbage time influenced that stat a bit, but the guy is rapidly becoming an absolute beast on defense. The conclusion is to put Favors out there early and often -- perhaps even start him, with Paul Millsap at the 3 or coming off the bench.

It squeezes the vets, but Howard and DeMarre Carroll aren't part of the future and aren't helping the present much either. At this point, the Jazz have nothing to lose by going with the kids.

https://insider.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2012/story/_/page/PERDiem-120503/all-odds
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Not exactly shocking news here.
 
green said:
The whole point of this playoff run was to get our young un's experience....yet, Corbin hasn't done that yet. A starting lineup of Harris, Burks, Hayward, Favors, Kanter can't do any worse than what we have watched the last two nights. Let's actually get these young guys some experience here.

Oh, and amnesty Jefferson's *** right now. Get that guy off the team. He is a uncoordinated Carmello. Or Marbury. Or Tmac. Or Francis. Or any other scorer that was a ball stopper and disappeared on defense. Jefferson is the worst kind of player, because you have dolts who think he is valuable because he shoots every time he touches the ball.
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Why would we amnesty Jefferson and pay him 13 million for nothing when we could probably trade him? I know a team like Houston has been looking for an offensive threat from the center position. Dont see the Millers eating 13 million. Now Bell is another story.
 
green said:
The whole point of this playoff run was to get our young un's experience....yet, Corbin hasn't done that yet. A starting lineup of Harris, Burks, Hayward, Favors, Kanter can't do any worse than what we have watched the last two nights. Let's actually get these young guys some experience here.

Oh, and amnesty Jefferson right now. Get that guy off the team. He is a uncoordinated Carmello. Or Marbury. Or Tmac. Or Francis. Or any other scorer that was a ball stopper and disappeared on defense. Jefferson is the worst kind of player, because you have dolts who think he is valuable because he shoots every time he touches the ball.
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I can't agree with the amnesty, but everything else is right on.
 
Big Al is not coming off the bench. He just isn't. And I'm pretty sure every single person actually believes this whether they want to or not.
 
NAOS said:
Hollinger confirms what most people around here have known for months. Where the **** is Ty Corbin's head? Favors played 9 minutes that meant something in game 2.
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... and right when he went out, San Antonio tore new butt holes and a ***** hole in the Jazz.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Big Al is not coming off the bench. He just isn't. And I'm pretty sure every single person actually believes this whether they want to or not.
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I agree with that completely. Anything else is just dumb. Al is too offensively effective (other than actually being good for the offense) and is paid too much to ride pine. Just wish he'd be taking his services elsewhere.
 
it's definitely a shame that we had to draw spurs in the first round because a more competitive first round performance would have benefited our young team far more.

hollinger recognises that we are completely outmatched and have nothing to lose by shaking up the line-ups a bit.
he also recognises that san antonio are the deserved favourites for the title this year.

i wonder what the mood will be like around here if corbin actually does start favours and we still get our butts whipped?

regardless of what changes are made i think we can only be more impressive/competitive in the remaining games than we have been in the first 2.
 
Hollinger's stats sometimes do not work but you gotta give him some credit for finding the situation out better than Corbin.
 
salo said:
it's definitely a shame that we had to draw spurs in the first round because a more competitive first round performance would have benefited our young team far more.

hollinger recognises that we are completely outmatched and have nothing to lose by shaking up the line-ups a bit.
he also recognises that san antonio are the deserved favourites for the title this year.

i wonder what the mood will be like around here if corbin actually does start favours and we still get our butts whipped?

regardless of what changes are made i think we can only be more impressive/competitive in the remaining games than we have been in the first 2.
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he shouldnt start favors he should use the lineups and sub paterns he has been using the last couple of games of the season
 
"Not start Howard and play Favors more? You have got to be kidding me? Leave the decisions to me Hollinger. I know what I'm doing. I was mentored by one of the best." -Ty Corbin.
 
I envy the Bulls because of their coach. He has no problem benching Boozer and Noah for Gibson and Asik
 
PKM said:
Al is too offensively effective (other than actually being good for the offense) and is paid too much to ride pine.
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I'm not going after you PKM, but I hate this line of thinking so much. Chris Webber was on Cowherd the other day talking about Carmello and how he is a ball stopper. Webber said that one of his biggest benefits from being in Sacramento was a coach they had there (I forget his name) who would preach on and on about ball stoppers. Webber said it doesn't matter how great you are offensively, if you are a ball stopper, you are bad for the team. You have to have ALL five players involved. If you don't the offense stalls. Then players become lazy, disinterested. Then the defense suffers. Isn't that a perfect description of this Utah team this year? How many times has Al's unit fallen down 5-10 pts, Al goes to the bench and the Jazz come back before halftime. How many games were the Jazz up 8-10 points in the fourth quarter, then Jefferson comes in, and we lost? And none of this takes into account Al's defense. Just the damage a ball hog has on the offense.

What made Phil Jackson so great? He convinced Jordan and Kobe that by passing the ball and keeping your teammates involved, you will win more. That is the whole point of the triangle offense, to get superstars to pass the ball.

Jefferson is horrible for this team, and there is a reason why he has never beat Duncan, and never taken a team to the playoffs (even though HALF the teams make the playoffs every year). There is a reason why Jefferson, Carmello, Marbury, Wilkins, TMac, etc have never done anything. They are ball stoppers.
 
There is only one really interesting thing I recall from game two. Paul Millsap guarding Tony Parker on one possesion. Paul stayed in front of him. Why the heck can't anyone else stay in front of him?
 
phippsj said:
There is only one really interesting thing I recall from game two. Paul Millsap guarding Tony Parker on one possesion. Paul stayed in front of him. Why the heck can't anyone else stay in front of him?
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mind you everyone thought parker would easily blow by him, so no screens where set.


Because there are NO screens, know what that means??? basketball is a 5 man team sport. parker needs screens from his teammates to get open.
on defense basketball being a team sport you cant blame harris for parker beign open if harris fights through screens and al jefferson doenst know how to play PnR defense and just backs off leaving both men open.

GET A CLUE
 
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