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orangello said:
Did we watch the same game? Jefferson completely stopped the movement from the offense. As the game wore on nobody wanted to do anything when Jefferson got the ball. He hurts the team more than he helps.
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I watched. For a period of time Jefferson was making some good passes. I recall him throwing out to a wide open Harris for 3, who bricked. I think he had a couple out to CJ,Raja, and Howard all mostly bricked. For a stretch we stopped going to him, the offense was disgusting. It took us about 10 seconds to even start it, then it went nowhere, resulting in a forced attempt by whoever had the ball.

Jefferson did go through a period were he was blackhole-ish, but I can't really blame him because no one was hitting shots and no one was open.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
I watched. For a period of time Jefferson was making some good passes. I recall him throwing out to a wide open Harris for 3, who bricked. I think he had a couple out to CJ,Raja, and Howard all mostly bricked. For a stretch we stopped going to him, the offense was disgusting. It took us about 10 seconds to even start it, then it went nowhere, resulting in a forced attempt by whoever had the ball.

Jefferson did go through a period were he was blackhole-ish, but I can't really blame him because no one was hitting shots and no one was open.
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This was all true. Rep'd
 
My point is, someone on the team other than Jefferson has to step up and DEMAND touches. I see Jefferson posting up and calling for the ball. I don't see Hayward showing hard off his screens and demanding the ball. Someone needs to do that.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
My point is, someone on the team other than Jefferson has to step up and DEMAND touches.
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As if Jefferson (2-16) "demanded" touches?

By the way, Millsap did "demand" touches more than Jefferson. Which is why Millsap should've come in far sooner for Jefferson--or should've come in alongside Favors and Jefferson to guard World Peace and to test the 3-man PF front.

After the starting lineup broke down, the optimal lineup to try was Watson-Hayward (or even Burks)-Millsap-Favors-Jefferson (or even Kanter). I don't think it happened--at least not for very long.

Massive missed opportunities by "Coach" Corbin.
 
Millsap did terrible when the game was actually in reach. He came in when it was a blowout and played hard. Everyone on LA was doing things lazily. Millsap got some hustle points, then Kobe came in and killed all hope at us making the score look like the game was competitive.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Millsap did terrible when the game was actually in reach.
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Really? You mean in the first quarter, when the opposing PF (Murphy--technically LAL's backup, but formerly a starter) scored zero points, and Gasol scored only 3 points (all of FTs)?

He came in when it was a blowout and played hard.
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Oh, you mean when it was 66-39 in third quarter, and Corbin had waited wayyyyyyy too long to take out Jefferson (and Bell, for that matter), extending a deficit from 11 points at half to 27 points, after AJ had gone scoreless in 8 minutes, and then PM proceeded to keep the point differential at the same level or better during the rest of Q3 and until he was subbed out in the middle of Q4, even after Gasol and Bryant came back in?

Not sure if you're trying to equalize the impact of Millsap or somehow be an apologist for Jefferson or Corbin (or just troll), but you have a very unorthodox way of doing so. Maybe your sig compels you to look for the pony in the pile of dung that Little Ty and Big Al laid tonight (and that PM and DF and even EK didn't, relatively speaking). The best in-game strategy against the Fakers was to give Jefferson 5 to 10 minutes' less time, starting when he wasn't being aggressive enough on offense and when he was dogging it on defense (he did both at times) and to hand those minutes to Favors or Kanter, who were far more deserving and had far more to gain.
 
Well, I know it is the first game but the Jazz looked like they did in Portland. I just hope that the Jazz coaching staff will realize that AJ, Harris, CJ, Bell are not the future. I hope that the young guys will mature faster and make the decision to totally rebuild easier to swallow for the organization.

Oh yea, CJ never will be an all-star. I know the organization thought he had the potential but he is really not good at anything.
 
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