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Jazz @ Clippers, 11/28/2010 1:30 MT

Rebounds again???

What was the story with rebounds? 39-28. Dwill with 5 is our top rebounder? Jefferson 4, Millsap 2. Clippers with 14 offensive boards. Did we forget how to box out again?

Glad we got the win though.

*edit* obviously I didn't get to watch the game.
 
Those stats are good and all but it was the team defense in the 2nd half that won this game. We gave up 60 points in the 1st half. The 3rd quarter we came out with a defensive mentality and gave up just 14 points.
 
It's remarkable how few wins that Clippers team has, considering the talent they can run out there (esp when Kaman plays). Griffin will win some games by himself. I'd expect them to win at least 35 games this year on talent alone.

It definitely helped putting more length out there against Griffin late in the game - seems like Elson was able to bother him pretty well.
 
zweibel said:
It's remarkable how few wins that Clippers team has, considering the talent they can run out there (esp when Kaman plays). Griffin will win some games by himself. I'd expect them to win at least 35 games this year on talent alone.

It definitely helped putting more length out there against Griffin late in the game - seems like Elson was able to bother him pretty well.
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You expected the Clips to win 35 games?

I called for Elson when everyone was calling for Fes late in the first half.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
You expect the Clips to win 35 games?

I called for Elson when everyone was calling for Fes late in the first half.
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Out of all the bad teams in the league, I think they have the most talent. Eventually, they'll start winning some games. But 35 might be a tad optimistic, yes.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
You expected the Clips to win 35 games?

I called for Elson when everyone was calling for Fes late in the first half.
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He WOULD expect. As in, they have enough talent to win at least 35 games, but they inexplicably won't.
 
Props to the coaching staff to go zone, then leaving Elson on Griffin in 4th. Locke said Fran held Blake to 2pts and 1 rebound in fourth.
 
Part of the reason for the rebounding disparity was due to how bad our defense was in the first half and how many uncontested shots the Clippers got. I can't remember the exact number, but I thought they shot over 60% from the field in the first half.
 
What I love the most right now about this Jazz: they expect to win.
They play like it too, and they finished it off like an earlier poster said, instead of letting up.
I think having that mentality is so important and has made this early season run possible. Beating LA the other night even after Kobe went off. DIdn't matter. The Jazz expected to win and they made the plays.

Going into the half against the Clips, I wasn't worried at all. You could see right away how the team came out in the 3rd quarter that they were determined to take over and win this game going away.

And what is also great is that we don't have to have our main players play great every time. Lately, Millsap has been scoring about 15 or less, but the team keeps winning. Today, Al didn't have a great game, only 10 points, but it didn't matter. Other guys are stepping up and Deron keeps playing fabulously.
 
Here is something interesting:
Jazz have 5 back to backs in the month of November.
So far, the jazz have won all four of the second game of the back to back. They are 7-2 overall on the back to backs.
If they win at home tomorrow against the Bucks, they will have won all 5 of the seconds nights. When does that ever happen?
 
craig2112 said:
Here is something interesting:
Jazz have 5 back to backs in the month of November.
So far, the jazz have won all four of the second game of the back to back. They are 7-2 overall on the back to backs.
If they win at home tomorrow against the Bucks, they will have won all 5 of the seconds nights. When does that ever happen?
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Craig, I really don't find that all that interesting actually.
 
Good win, but what happened to the intensity we had rebounding the ball against the lakers? We were outrebounded by 11 (10 offensive) thats not gonna fly against teams not named the Clippers. We proved we can out rebound the best in the league, we need to do it with consistency.
 
I've been hard on AK lately. He looked solid tonight. Making great passes, and seemed more involved. He helped us tonight.
 
AK was just all around good tonight. The sort of game that isn't extremely impressive, but the sort of game where if he could do this every game in a playoff series the Jazz will be a very dangerous team in it.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
Good win.

Now keep the machine going.

We're on pace for 59 wins and only three out of the next 24 games are on the road against a team with a winning record. That's huge. We could go on a major run here.
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I'm cautiously optimistic that this team could be a 60 win team this year. That would be beyond awesome.

And on another note, the Jazz just won their first series of the season against another team by beating the Clippers. Yay.
 
Sloan Pwns said:
Good win, but what happened to the intensity we had rebounding the ball against the lakers? We were outrebounded by 11 (10 offensive) thats not gonna fly against teams not named the Clippers. We proved we can out rebound the best in the league, we need to do it with consistency.
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...I'm becoming more and more convinced the rebounding although important, is not as important for us as keeping the turnovers low! We've been getting outrebounded fairly regular, not by much, but consistently outrebounded. We're still winning. Why? Our turnovers are very managable. 10, sometimes, 12, occassionaly 14....but no 19, 20 or more turnover games. We're shooting better which means less offensive rebounding opportunities. As long as we hold our own on the defensive boards...and keep those turnovers down....we seem to do alright! Well, better than alright....13-5 is much better than alright!
 
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