SoUjazzfan
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Whatever Shelvin Mack had on Quin he's passed along to Niang and Mudiay.
Same where it has the other games. Terrible shots, no energy, turnovers and moping around when OKC went on a run.Saw none of the second half, where did it all go wrong?
I've said it before and I know it's not a popular idea and probably would never happen but maybe bring Bogey off of the bench and allow him to play more freely. I think he could be a Lou Williams type 18+ ppg 15+ shots per game player.
Mack would be an upgrade right now. That's me being honest.Whatever Shelvin Mack had on Quin he's passed along to Niang and Mudiay.
What's weird is Mitchell was playing the exact same way last December, then claimed later on to have learned his lesson from it. I guess he forgot.
Good post. Spot on regarding Dante. And yeah, Donovan is becoming like Carmello.
What a s**** day. I had a crown and post fall out this morning while brushing my teeth, work was horrible, then the Jazz come out with no energy and get played off their own court by a tired below .500 team. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
Mudiay is shooting 30% from 3-pt and has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.3. He got dumped by the Knicks after last season, and, quite frankly, he's barely holding on to a spot in the league.
Jeff Green averages 2.8 rebs per game in over 19 mins of game time, and he only plays spotty defense. There's a reason he's a minimum-contract player.
The starters aren't the problem. Their +/- has been positive, even through the losing streak.
I wish Exum could get about 10 games with 15 minutes to 20 minutes per game without getting yanked for every little mistake. Give him some consistent playing time, let him build some confidence. Then assess. If he isn’t going to make the cut, then ship him out. But I absolutely hate the double standard where his mistakes are magnified and Mitchell and Mudiay are allowed to get away with such selfish play.
Joe didn’t get to handle the ball near as much in the 3rd quarter. The Jazz are so much better when Joe runs the offense vs. Mitchell. Mitchell is looking to get his shot. Joe is looking to create a good shot for somebody else.
Mack would be an upgrade right now. That's me being honest.
Not only G-leaguers, but rookies picked between 50-60 in the draft lol
OKC got 29 mins tonight from Luguentz Dort, a rookie who went undrafted last spring. They got 26 minutes out of Darius Bazley who is like 19 years old and who had 7 rebounds to Jeff Green's 1 rebound. They got 28 mins from Abdel Nader who was a regular in the G-league until a year or so ago.
Guys who are NBA athletes and who play their role can contribute.
It's more about the state of the team. That a preseason contender is in such dire straits that people are like "maybe the 50th or 58th overall pick in last year's draft can right the ship."
It's so incredibly disappointing to see the state of the team. These huge deficits are a gigantic red flag. If we were losing but competing, and showing effort/heart it would be acceptable. This team just looks like it is bad fit basketball chemistry-wise. Seems like the players like each other, similar to last season but it's just a bad fit on the court. Before blowing it up, I think that Quin should shake up the starting 5. I might try something like starting...
Exum/Mitchell/Bogey/Green/Gobert
bench unit...
Conley/Mudiay/O'Neal/Ingles/Davis
Each unit has enough shooting and defense on paper to be serviceable to very good. At this point, we aren't beating the top 4-5 teams in the West come April so you may as well exhaust all possibilities before then and if we need to look at trading Conley, Ingles, etc. then we can address it in February.
I worried about this when Rubio and Favors left but I genuinely felt like we could outscore anyone in the league on any given night to offset the dip in defense and rebounding. I just never fathomed it would look like this a quarter of the way into the season. Conley has been a massive disappointment, and I didn't think we'd ever live in a world were we'd be begging for the return of Ricky Rubio.