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What weaknesses do the Jazz have?

larryselbows

larryselbows

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Although we didn't get a first round pick this year, in my opinion, we have had a successful off-season. In fact, I can't really remember a time in the recent past in which the Jazz have been so aggressive at improving in their weak areas. We have improved defensively and our perimeter shooting mightily. Furthermore, our point guard, shooting guard, and small forward positions will all be improved over last year, as will our bigs from simply having more experience. My question is, now that it seems that we have addressed our outside shooting woes, what are our remaining weaknesses? My vote goes to our propensity for fouling too much and our poor play on the road. We can play all the great defense we want but if we keep putting guys on the line it isn't going to matter much. The difference in our play between home games and away games is huge and I think fouls are a huge part of that, we simply don't get away with as much away from home.

Our defensive rebounding, blocks, and steals numbers were actually pretty good at home ranking 3, 4, and 8 respectively in the NBA. In contrast, they ranked 21, 23, and 24 on the road. We are just not a good defensive road team. What do you guys think are our problem areas?

Here's my reference for the stats I used: https://www.nba.com/statistics/sortable_team_statistics/sortable2.html?cnf=1&prd=1#top
 
1) Experience, first and foremost. I think that plays a large role in terms of our road-woes.
2) Consistency: we need consistent production from all of our starters and bench players, 1-14. Ties in with experience, now that I think about it. Al is typically consistent (for better or for worse), but we need this consistency from other players as well, namely Hayward, Favors, and Burks. A consistent 17/9 from Millsap would also be wonderful, and I would appreciate it if he was given more plays, and looks offensively
3) PICK AND ROLL DEFENSE. Need I say more? The only other defensive woe that is almost as bad is when a team like the Spurs have a player like Duncan that we ALWAYS double, leaving 4 three-point shooters wide open. I think our entire defensive philosophy needs some serious work.


Biggest three problems that come to mind.
 
larryselbows said:
Although we didn't get a first round pick this year, in my opinion, we have had a successful off-season. In fact, I can't really remember a time in the recent past in which the Jazz have been so aggressive at improving in their weak areas. We have improved defensively and our perimeter shooting mightily. Furthermore, our point guard, shooting guard, and small forward positions will all be improved over last year, as will our bigs from simply having more experience. My question is, now that it seems that we have addressed our outside shooting woes, what are our remaining weaknesses? My vote goes to our propensity for fouling too much and our poor play on the road. We can play all the great defense we want but if we keep putting guys on the line it isn't going to matter much. The difference in our play between home games and away games is huge and I think fouls are a huge part of that, we simply don't get away with as much away from home.

Our defensive rebounding, blocks, and steals numbers were actually pretty good at home ranking 3, 4, and 8 respectively in the NBA. In contrast, they ranked 21, 23, and 24 on the road. We are just not a good defensive road team. What do you guys think are our problem areas?

Here's my reference for the stats I used: https://www.nba.com/statistics/sortable_team_statistics/sortable2.html?cnf=1&prd=1#top
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The funny thing is that I thought Big Al blocked a lot and we can thank Milsap for a large portion of the steals. You would think our defense would be good, right? LOL

WEAKNESSES:

*3 point shooting by far, all the opposing team had to do was to pack the paint.
*PICK AND ROLL DEFENSE <<<no disagreement there!
*lack of true leader <<<Hopefully Mo ca fix that.
*having old, washed-up players dictate their playing times. **** Bell
 
Biggest Jazz problem is we do not have players with true all-star/winner mentality qualities. Team is filled with good but not great players. The only time team build like that won was in 2004. But they had great coach and defensive player of the year... and some other factors helped them as well ( Malone's injury, Kobe's ego, etc... )
 
We are still thin at the 5. Big Al is not a legit 5 and I would ideally like Favors to play the 4, where he has a chance to dominate with his size and athleticism
 
1. A. Legit playmaker. Either one that creates for others, themselves, or both.
1. B. Anyone that has a mid-range game.

I miss Deron. Oh well.
 
Tyrone Corbin's substitution patterns killed me last year. I don't remember how many times the starter fell behind and Ty didn't make a sub until there was 2 or 3 minutes left in the first quarter.

I hope Corbin improves, but I would say he is one of our weak links as well.
 
Ability to out-psyche the rival team even if underdogs. What the hell was the mood Big Al was in during Spurs series?
 
Defense, defense, defense.

Even with abysmal outside shooting, Utah was one of the best offensive teams in the league.
 
PG situation: Mo is question mark for me. I was sure Harris was gonna leave but not really expecting Mo coming. He's gotta change his play type in jazz organization and really wondering his assist numbers with turnover ratio.

The coaching: I really did not like his coaching this year even though playoffs were surprising for me. Bad rotation, limited offensive sets, no creativity and for me not qualified assistant coaches

The youngster's situation: Except Favors, it's unknown situation for Burks, Kanter and Hayward. Is hayward gonna be 2 or 3? Burks will get enough min to improve after new comers? Kanter still be behaved like rookie and mentioned as Reggie Evans type guy?

The outside shooting: yea some guys came for solving this problem but none of the guys as Marvin, Burks, Hayward are consistent 3 point shooters. Mo is ok and Foye's min gotta be fixed so spacing can be again an issue for the team.

The offense based on Al: I am sure we are gonna keep playing Al too much again and that is gonna destroy the up tempo and decrease the efficiency of Marvin, Mo.
 
I like him, and I want him to win, but Coach Corbin has got to show that he is his own man and not little Jerry. Include the 3-pt shot, make ingame adjustments, call some plays for the young guys and let them play through some mistakes.

If he struggled with Bell who was not playing Mo could eat him alive. Better be on top of it right now. What happens when Al gets benched and Favors plays? What happens when Al plays 38 and Favors is pissed? Will he have the courage to sit Hayward and tell managment too bad about the Jersey sales? Too many good players and not enough great ones can be tuff to handle. The good roster with multiple options combined with a young coach is a weakness.

Also, Greg Miller needs a strong season without a gaffe. No twitter jabs at Karl, no weaksause call to your star player an hour after ESPN reported he was traded, and no groveling to a coach who walked out on you. Time to step up. Greg also needs to decide if he wants to build around youth and experinece the painful difficulties that brings, or continue to stirve for 6-10 spot in the west every year by playing flawed veterans. He's tried to have it both ways for nearly 2 seasons. It makes KOC and Ty's jobs harder and its a weakness that must be confronted.

KOC has shown that he can assemble a bunch of good players and nice assetts. Will he have the courage to turn those good guys and assetss into an ego manic star? 'cause unless you're getting Duncan or Nash all the 'stars' are messed up, and the NBA is a star driven league.
 
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Coaching: subbing, team defense and a warrior mentality go hand in hand with this
Aging, unimpressive pg's
One consistently dependable wing who can bring it, especially in the clutch
Al's defense
 
AKMVP said:
Biggest Jazz problem is we do not have players with true all-star/winner mentality qualities. Team is filled with good but not great players. The only time team build like that won was in 2004. But they had great coach and defensive player of the year... and some other factors helped them as well ( Malone's injury, Kobe's ego, etc... )
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I was wonderign where the AK plug would come in...glad you didn't disappoint.
 
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