Game Thread Nov 18, 2021 07:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Raptors

[Hekate]

Bogey is so much better when he just shoots in rythymn

That escape dribble was so unnecessary, he seems bothered by hectic closeouts from Raps even when he is wide open.

 

[infection]

Between the deflections and offensive rebounds, they should have twice as many possessions as us.

 

[infection]

Toronto has Britney Griner?

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

It's frightening how poor Joe's mobility is on defense.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Gay watch is officially on.

 

[Hekate]

Gay's trigger is quicker than I remember. That's nice.

 

[KqWIN]

Listening to it now. Toronto has a bunch of long and athletic switchable players and play without a center. They will likely create a lot of turnovers and get in transition where we are not good. In the half court they run a lot of isolation and DHO, which we aren't great at defending.

I didn't listen, but I thought this was a funky take when I saw it on Twitter. The Raptors are switchable, but they don't play a defense we should struggle against. They send two at the ball every time, which is effectively a free start to the blender guaranteed. When we struggle with switching it's because the switching takes away our actions without giving up an advantage. We don't even struggle with that tbh. I think people still think this is 2018 against the Rockets or something. Once we got shooters we started cooking switching defense, playoffs included. But the trapping style of defense is exactly the type of defense we should have success against.

 

[jazzVA]

Rudy Gay!!!

 

[KqWIN]

Rudy Gay has been near perfect so far. Love his quick trigger and inside defense already.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

So it looks like Rudy Gay is going to be our Nic Batum.

 

[infection]

So it looks like Rudy Gay is going to be our Nic Batum.

Tonight aside, he’s way better than Batum.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Tonight aside, he’s way better than Batum.

I don't know. He hasn't looked very athletic yet.

 

[infection]

Was that Ringo?

 

[Agent#00]

9 turnovers

 

[MT Steve]

I love Bojan, but damn, when he has to switch to defend a quick guard, it's not good.

 

[nateboz]

Mitch is playing zero defense and hero ball.

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[infection]

Selfish ****ing inbound by Donovan.

 

[MT Steve]

We've got a long way to go defensively between now and playoffs.

 

[jom2003]

Khem Birch has scored a total of 14 points over his last 3 games and we just gonna let him drop 14 on us over the first half.

 

[LogGrad98]

Khem Birch has scored a total of 14 points over his last 3 games and we just gonna let him drop 14 on us over the first half.

You seem to have us confused with a team that plays defense.