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Official Game Thread--12/30/2010: Utah at Portland 8pm MT...FSR-UT/KFNZ

Memo, CJ, and AK are all out tonight. I sure hope Hayward is ready to play another 35-45 minutes tonight.
 
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10 healthy players. Deron, Bell, Hayward, Millsap, Jefferson starting with Watson, Price, Evans, Elson and Fesenko off the bench. Be interesting to see who's the first big off the bench tonight.
 
Keep doing what you've been doing, and keep getting what you've been getting

Aldridge pwning Millsap again, yet Sloan makes no adjustments at the 4/5.

Given the lean bench and the matchups, it would have made sense to start a backup big. Make it Elson if you want. But Sloan doesn't analyze. He prefers his gut; it hasn't garnered him a ring, but it hasn't gotten him fired yet, either . . . .

Maybe a burrito chose the lineup tonight.
 
I know it's just more crying over spilled milk like the Boozer lovers here like to do, but it only gets more and more evident that letting Matthews get away was a huge mistake.
 
Jeditiger said:
I know it's just more crying over spilled milk like the Boozer lovers here like to do, but it only gets more and more evident that letting Matthews get away was a huge mistake.
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Um, jedi, Matthews was too expensive to keep.

I'd like to see how Price does against Matthews. And preferably sooner rather than later.
 
Another day, another recovery.

Fes comes in, the paint comes under control, Fes makes 2-2 FTs, alters a shot, picks up the rebound, and gets the ball to DW for an unlikely end of quarter, 3/4-court 3. All of this playing alongside Evans, with Millsap at the 3 (which would've been a good way to start each of the past two games). Amazing how that works.

Update: Fes misses his second pair of FTs; his FT% comes back to earth. Then he completely alters three shots in less than three minutes, resulting in Portland near-airballs.

Hayward commits his third foul--yet another reason why Millsap should be playing more at the 3 while the team is lean. But preferably before a wing is in foul trouble.

Matchup and roster analysis 101.
 
Sheesh. They call Earl for a block. OK. But next play down the floor, they call Ronnie for a charge when it was an obvious flop.
I wish the NBA would be like FIFA and stop rewarding acting like that.
FIFA now gives out yellow cards if you flop. Why not give out technical fouls for flopping?
 
Jeditiger said:
Millsap is not a 3.
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Millsap is OK against the likes of Gomes (a.k.a. Bass) and probably Batum.

After Fes bumbles a bad paint shot, Bell draws a great charge, and Utah takes the lead by Price or Watson. Porty and Utah trade leads.

Fes shuts down Aldridge; LA passes it off, and Price makes Batum earn 'em at the line, after a near-shutout for half of a quarter.

Less clear to me was how much better Millsap would be playing alongside Fesenko than alongside Lazy Weezy. Simple enforcement of accountability (limiting Jefferson's first quarter minutes until he proves to perform) would've have resolved this long ago.

Matthews flops to draw a foul from Fesenko at 5:20.
 
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