Have his assists gone up this year?
Ok, you are coaching the Jazz. How do you stop Parker/Gino from abusing Jefferson on PnR?
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Have his assists gone up this year?
This is how the Jazz can beat the Spurs. Al Jefferson cannot play. His defense basically gives the opposing team a bucket every time down the floor. Use Favors, Hayward, Burks, and Tinsley to fastbreak the living poop out of them. Spurs have very few, if any, explosive athletes on their team. Memphis exposed that last year. They simply physically overwhelmed them on the defensive end of the floor. The Jazz have the potential to do the same, but cannot do that will Al Jefferson on the floor.
//r00t 4 Jazz
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Also just an FYI it was widely publicized locally that Corbin did implement forcing baseline in the preseason. Now whether the players have learned and executed it, that can be questioned for sure.
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Keep a bucket on the bench for Favors to puke in because he needs to play 48.
Right, because there's only one play in basketball and that is the pick and roll.
I do not think it is that clear cut. Big Al had some shinning moments that clearly helped the Jazz and he had some blunders that clearly hurt them.
People still fail to recognize that Big Al was our most consistent scorer and act like the rest of the team could score at will if it wasn't for his presence on the floor.
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Well, I'm not saying get rid of Al. But, we need some way to mitigate his weaknesses. If we can funnel the PnR instead of having him read and react as was suggested earlier (repped by the way) that would go a long way towards making Al a more useful player.
Zero truth to that statement, zero. We watch the games, we see him score, we see the box scores.
Folks like you are the ones with blinders on, the do not see the miserable defense, the poor passing, the stalled offense, the failure to ever run the floor, etc etc, that do not show up in the box score. He is a great one on one low post scorer, decent rebounder and shot blocker, but gives up too much elsewhere to be considered good. And he is a terrible liability on defense as a C, the most important position on D. Look at all the teams that play a C who cannot score but plays solid defense.
Well, some of us certainly are.
This isn't high school basketball.
I don't think you focus on what you can't stop. A perfectly executed pick & roll is very hard to stop. The pick & roll is the least of our concerns right now. They need to focus on their game. Get rid of the turnovers and stop settling for so many jump shots. Play tight defense and don't give away so many easy shots.
Tony Parker played great and I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps playing great. You can't expect to take away their game. You just have to make them work for it every time they come down the floor, and then the Jazz need to focus on what they do well.
Doesn't mean we'll win, but it's the only way we will.
Tony Parker played great and I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps playing great. You can't expect to take away their game. You just have to make them work for it every time they come down the floor, and then the Jazz need to focus on what they do well.
Doesn't mean we'll win, but it's the only way we will.
I think it is key that we put up some kind of big run on the Spurs to put us ahead, so we aren't playing from behind the entire game. It seemed like we would get small 4-0 runs here and there, but the Spurs would respond with a 6-0 run.
I fail to see where I ever pointed out that he wasn't a miserable defender. I agree that he is, but we have to deal with it and compensate for it somehow. We have 0 chance of winning without him being a factor offensively.
Also, it seems to me you are the one with blinders on if you can't realize Big Al's passing is good. He his top 10 in PF's and C's in assist per game, and LEADS all of them in Assist:TO ratio, despite having a team that is one of the worst perimeter shooting teams in the league. Without Big Al to suck in the defense, would we ever make a 3pt shot the entire game? We see spurts of our team with Tinsley in and Big Al out of crisp ball movement, but our team can't do that for a full 48 minutes (You could tell last game when Parker and the Spurs knew exactly what Tinsley was going to do and intercepted 2 of his passes) and isn't as consistent as Big Al is at this point.
Yes, the offense is very prone to stagnation. You can't put all that blame on Big Al though. Our players need to make harder, more precise cuts and not give up after a couple of tries because they didn't get open or they weren't hit with a pass.
I want to trade him too, but at the same time I realize that without him playing well, we have less chance than we currently do at advancing or winning any games.
Agreed. Defense was adequate.
What you mean is actually running an offense instead of that stagnating Harris-Haywierd iso nonsense we saw yesterday morning.
Run, run, run.
If I had to put the majority of the blame on anyone it is Devin Harris. He has to find a way to be effective, or at the very least not turn the ball over 5 times.
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Way to ride my coattails.