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Westbrook out and Harden doubtful vs. the Jazz

LoPo said:
Eric Gordon shot 20 free throws with 22 field goal attempts. Donovan shot 6 free throws on 25 field goal attempts. We lost by 9.

I didn't get to watch the game, but that discrepancy is pretty glaring.

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All Gordon's got to do is elbow someone or yell, and contort his body a little, and he gets the call. Every. Damn. Time.
 
Eminence said:
I'll disagree on the FT disparity being the refs fault, I think Donovan settled too often and pulled up for that little floater, while Gordon consistently went all the way to the rim. When they're calling it tight you've got to take it all the way in.
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They weren't calling it tight when the Jazz had the ball.
 
The far bigger concern here is this: the Jazz cannot beat the Rockets. Their style of play neutralizes many of our team’s strengths. We have seen it the last few years and this game was no different. Their iso ball limits the impact of Gobert and requires our perimeter defenders to play smart 1 on 1 defense. Unfortunately, our defenders have proven time and time again to be unable to do so. In fairness, that’s also true with most teams in the league.

What was truly disappointing though was the team didn’t have a better offensive strategy for Houston’s small ball. The tallest person in their starting lineup was 6’7, but their defensive intensity was off the charts. Quin better figure out a better game plan for that because if not I’m guessing a lot of other teams are going to give it a try against us as well.
 
Ujfanatic said:
The far bigger concern here is this: the Jazz cannot beat the Rockets. Their style of play neutralizes many of our team’s strengths. We have seen it the last few years and this game was no different. Their iso ball limits the impact of Gobert and requires our perimeter defenders to play smart 1 on 1 defense. Unfortunately, our defenders have proven time and time again to be unable to do so. In fairness, that’s also true with most teams in the league.

What was truly disappointing though was the team didn’t have a better offensive strategy for Houston’s small ball. The tallest person in their starting lineup was 6’7, but their defensive intensity was off the charts. Quin better figure out a better game plan for that because if not I’m guessing a lot of other teams are going to give it a try against us as well.
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Not only do we need to learn to play against it, the Jazz need figure out how to DO it, especially since that might work better against it.
 
This was a bad loss. And I'm kind of confused as to why some on Twitter are like "oh, it's just one game, it's a long season". NO! This was a schedule "win", especially considering how depleted Houston was. These are the games we look back to at the end of the season and lament because we ended up 1 game back of somebody. Perspective is not limited to one thing here.
 
Also of note: In our last 2 losses it took one guy getting hot and scoring over 40 points, and one game went to OT.
 
While I agree there were too many fouls called, and the majority obviously favored Houston, there were multiple times rockets got to the rim uncontested. Our close outs were soft, rebounding was soft and the follow up dunk by house was ridiculous. No excuse for that. We just weren't giving the effort necessary to nullify what they wanted to do. We looked past them. Scheduled win was our mindset and it bit us in the ***.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Not only do we need to learn to play against it, the Jazz need figure out how to DO it, especially since that might work better against it.
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The Jazz played against it fine, they just missed shots again and had some really bad open court TOs. The game was a fluke.
 
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Ujfanatic said:
The far bigger concern here is this: the Jazz cannot beat the Rockets. Their style of play neutralizes many of our team’s strengths. We have seen it the last few years and this game was no different. Their iso ball limits the impact of Gobert and requires our perimeter defenders to play smart 1 on 1 defense. Unfortunately, our defenders have proven time and time again to be unable to do so. In fairness, that’s also true with most teams in the league.

What was truly disappointing though was the team didn’t have a better offensive strategy for Houston’s small ball. The tallest person in their starting lineup was 6’7, but their defensive intensity was off the charts. Quin better figure out a better game plan for that because if not I’m guessing a lot of other teams are going to give it a try against us as well.
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The Jazz shot 50% from the field. Their offensive gameplay (other than really bad TOs) was fine. Missed shots happen. There was just a lot of huge momentum swings where the Jazz would miss something easy on one end, then give up something easy on the other.
 
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I've been commenting on game threads here for what, 3 years I think. You can count on one hand the number of times I've even come close to blaming a loss on the refs.

Hell @nateboz can be my witness. He knows how many times I've responded to him saying it's not the refs we're just not playing well.

This time was different and you're damn right I'm gonna say it.

If that makes me a sniveling conspiracy theorist then whatever lol
 
This was just a really strange game. A lot of really weird unforced turnovers, tons of missed wide open shots, only 2 offensive rebounds against a team that never played anyone over 6'6, no one could stay in front of their man on the perimeter. The whole team just seemed really unfocused, like their heads just weren't in it.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
While I agree there were too many fouls called, and the majority obviously favored Houston, there were multiple times rockets got to the rim uncontested. Our close outs were soft, rebounding was soft and the follow up dunk by house was ridiculous. No excuse for that. We just weren't giving the effort necessary to nullify what they wanted to do. We looked past them. Scheduled win was our mindset and it bit us in the ***.
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Dallas game too. As long as teams get Rudy out of the paint, they can basically drive to the basketball and get free buckets at will. Our perimeter D sucks this year and we don't really have anyone else who can close out behind Rudy. At this point, I'd try some zone D. Close down the paint. Force those guys shoot threes and live/die with it.
 
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