Official Game Thread--12/30/2010: Utah at Portland 8pm MT...FSR-UT/KFNZ
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InGameStrategy
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And then Sloan goes back to what has not been working: Millsap + Jefferson.
Is Elson hurt? FE or Fes should be playing whenever Camby is playing--and especially when Camby and Aldridge are playing. I don't understand why the coaching staff is so oblivious to this.
Is Elson hurt? FE or Fes should be playing whenever Camby is playing--and especially when Camby and Aldridge are playing. I don't understand why the coaching staff is so oblivious to this.
InGameStrategy
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The Blazers haven't been whining; they are just being better actors.
This game has been all about controlling the paint. When Jefferson and Millsap have been in without a true Jazz center, the paint has been Portland's. Zone defense by Utah hasn't helped.
Also, these are the worst officials I have seen all year. 5-6 just atrocious calls...both ways too, not just against the Jazz. My favorite was when Matthews saved the ball and it hit 6 inches out of bounds before going back into play and being recovered by the Blazers. Play on.
InGameStrategy
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. . . except that the Jazz scored 4 more points in the ten minutes that Fes was on the floor.
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Great, doesn't change the fact that he is a liability offensively.
Archie Moses
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Great, I got booted from the chat cause Raja did wave off to a ref and I said it was gay. A little hypersensitive aren't we?
InGameStrategy
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Except for the 4 points that they scored over the opposition!
The object of the game is not to score; it's to outscore.
Yes, Millsap and Jefferson are superior offensive players to both Elson and Fesenko. But in both this game and the last one (and on average all year), the inferiority of their defense has outweighed their offense in the first quarter. You are either trolling or ignoring fundamentals here.
InGameStrategy
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Again, honz, the goal is to be a net asset. And he has been in more games than not. His defense was stifling. Let's make the conversation balanced here, and talk about how absolutely pathetic Jefferson's defense has been in the first quarters of the past two games (not to mention in previous ones).
Way for AJ to draw the foul as time expires in Q2.
Seriously, ArmChairStrategy, you watch a COMPLETELY different game than I do.
Larry Bird said the same thing about ML Carr. They could sit together and watch a game, and Larry would look at ML and wonder what he was seeing.
Fes is a complete liability on offense. He can't finish because Porty keeps fouling him and he can't make his ft's.
Larry Bird said the same thing about ML Carr. They could sit together and watch a game, and Larry would look at ML and wonder what he was seeing.
Fes is a complete liability on offense. He can't finish because Porty keeps fouling him and he can't make his ft's.
UNBELIEABLE! Mathews throws up crap, jazz have the ball and the blazers clobber DWill and give Aldridge a shot. NO CALL?
Then they make up for it by giving a crap call to Jeff. Of course the crowd boos like a bunch of b!tches.
I guess it worked in the jazz favor, sort of...with Aldridge getting his third foul
Then they make up for it by giving a crap call to Jeff. Of course the crowd boos like a bunch of b!tches.
I guess it worked in the jazz favor, sort of...with Aldridge getting his third foul
InGameStrategy
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Fes is very bad on offense. But your claims are empty because (1) jefferson and millsap have been embarrassing on defense in the first quarter; (2) more often than not, the Jazz has outscored the opposition with Fes on the floor, despite his limited scoring; (3) nobody outscored Fesenko while he was on the court tonight; and (4) few players are able to develop an offensive game if they don't average even 10 MPG.
Let's not.
Not to mention the shot clock being reset saving the Blazers from a shot clock violation and the fact that Jefferson wasn't fouled.