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Jazz @ Raptors - Tipoff at 5:30 PM MST - 3/2/2016

LifeOnaPlate said:
How the hell is PORTLAND better than us? Lillard and CJ alone? Good grief.
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They have a team based around shooting and breaking down the defense with space. We are more based around caveman basketball, running two centers in our starting lineup.
 
devgchr said:
They have a team based around shooting and breaking down the defense with space. We are more based around caveman basketball, running two centers in our starting lineup.
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Our starting lineup is actually better than Portland's going by +/-.

But they have good depth and we have no depth.
 
Revolution 9 said:
Portland has a star, and a closer we don't.
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I don't think the closer thing is legitimate. Hayward is one of the better shooters in the final minutes of close games. I think the thing is that Lillard is just capable of carrying a huge scoring load that Hayward isn't. We probably need Hayward to be a 25 ppg scorer with our injury issues, but that just isn't sustainable for Hayward like it is for Lillard.
 
Another big theme of this season: trying to find a suitable answer at the point guard position. Quin Snyder felt that having three healthy options would help the Jazz's consistency at the point guard position, essentially by having three shots at success.

Tonight, Shelvin Mack was awful. Mack was a -13 when he was on the floor, shooting 0-6 from the field and committing three turnovers. The Raptors big run in the second quarter can largely be attributed to Mack mistakes.

So Raul Neto and Trey Burke got opportunities to play in the second half, and played much better. Neto scored 10, Burke scored 11, and the Jazz played much better when they were on the floor, sometimes even together.

That's the problem with the approach of consistency by committee: in the end, it takes a while to figure out which of your players is going to be effective or ineffective on a given night. In that time, one of those players might be negative enough that you lose the game. You can make a case that that's what happened for the Jazz tonight.

I liked the Mack pickup for the Jazz, because I do think he's likely to be the Jazz's best PG option overall. But he's also just not a consistent difference maker, the kind of player that would really make a huge impact on the Jazz's playoff chances this season. We saw that tonight.
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
Johnson is 6/28 on open corner threes on the year.
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That is brutal - and how many of those misses represent transitional baskets for the other team?

I have some affection for CJ and Booker because they bust their ***. But the sorry fact is one does not have NBA talent and the other is an end of bench guy at best.
 
Anyone know the status of Rodney hood?
 
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