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Utah Jazz VS Portland Blazers -- Tue. Oct. 25th @8pm MDT

tleikheen said:
to me ,Jazz giving up 113 points is the biggest thing I saw ....earlier today a guy here said any lineup with Gobert in it was a defensive team .I said baloney if he has 2 guard 3 guys on the frontline.
I wonder how GHill will do guarding a bigger DRussell at PG for the Lakers
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He'll be fine, not as quick as Dame or as good of a shooter as CJ or Dame. Then if he gets by Hill someone comes to help and who does DRuss pass to who will hurt us like Portland did?
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I feel like a lot of that was the absence of Favors though. Gobert just cant switch out onto Lillard at all. Favors at least makes it a little harder on Lillard.
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So are you not playing Gobert then? They will just bring Goberts guy to set the screen. I think favors helps a bit but mostly because he's good and diaw sucked. I think they present a matchup problem that is not easily solved. We can bring the bigger wings and beast them though.
 
tleikheen said:
to me ,Jazz giving up 113 points is the biggest thing I saw ....earlier today a guy here said any lineup with Gobert in it was a defensive team .I said baloney if he has 2 guard 3 guys on the frontline.
I wonder how GHill will do guarding a bigger DRussell at PG for the Lakers
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I like Russell but I think he is not even close to what the Portland guys are... Hill likely wins that matchup... may not score as many pints but definitely does more to help his team win.
 
I think we are better than Portland when healthy. They are 100%... we are missing two of our three best players and another rotation player.

Both teams had outlier situations tonight but I feel good where we are.
 
I haven't read the reactions here, but the Jazz just went toe to toe against the Blazers on the road missing their 2 best all around players. Portland shot 68 % from the 3 point line (many of the shots contested), and Jazz were still in it until the last minute. Jazz really missed Favors tonight. Diaw was worthless on both ends of the floor, while Favors is one of the better PF defenders in the league. Hill was impressive (although needs to hit the open 3's a little better) and Hood and Johnson were awesome. If Jazz can be relatively healthy, they are a very good team. While the loss kinda stinks, it was also encouraging at the same time. I'm not as worried about Hayward missing a few weeks if Johnson can keep this up, but we need Favors. Diaw shouldn't play more than 5-10 minutes, and it should be at C backing up Gobert.
 
tleikheen said:
to me ,Jazz giving up 113 points is the biggest thing I saw ....earlier today a guy here said any lineup with Gobert in it was a defensive team .I said baloney if he has 2 guard 3 guys on the frontline.
I wonder how GHill will do guarding a bigger DRussell at PG for the Lakers
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You have a really hard time masking your agenda.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
So are you not playing Gobert then? They will just bring Goberts guy to set the screen. I think favors helps a bit but mostly because he's good and diaw sucked. I think they present a matchup problem that is not easily solved. We can bring the bigger wings and beast them though.
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With Favors healthy, I would love to see a Hill/Exum/Hood/Johnson/Favors lineup against teams like Portland. Hayward can come in for Exum or Hood depending on the situation.
 
tleikheen said:
to me ,Jazz giving up 113 points is the biggest thing I saw ....earlier today a guy here said any lineup with Gobert in it was a defensive team .I said baloney if he has 2 guard 3 guys on the frontline.
I wonder how GHill will do guarding a bigger DRussell at PG for the Lakers
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Ha. At least try to be a little more subtle.
 
Our defense sucked because Favors is still our best all-around defender and probably always will be. Our best perimeter defender is Hayward. Missing those two, especially Favors, really hurts our defense. Plus it is easy to pull Gobert out of the paint. It is not easy to pull both Favors and Gobert out.
 
Ha. At least try to be a little more subtle.
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You have a really hard time masking your agenda.
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Jazz are picked to be top 2 quality defensive NBA teams this year,up there with San Antonio,they didn't play it ....that's just a fact ...tonight ,but will wait to see if the screws tighten up when Favors and Hayward return
 
tleikheen said:
Jazz are picked to be top 2 quality defensive NBA teams this year,up there with San Antonio,they didn't play it ....that's just a fact ...tonight ,but will wait to see if the screws tighten up when Favors and Hayward return
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You should stop trying to make a mountain out of one game samples. That's how you wind up saying silly things like Joe Johnson was a horrible pickup.
 
tleikheen said:
Jazz are picked to be top 2 quality defensive NBA teams this year,up there with San Antonio,they didn't play it ....that's just a fact ...tonight ,but will wait to see if the screws tighten up when Favors and Hayward return
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It's a one game sample size...
 
The cute thing about the Blazers is that they really think us having Favors and Hayward would have made us play worse tonight.
 
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