Game Thread Oct 29, 2025 07:00PM MT: Portland Trail Blazers @ Utah Jazz

[MT Steve]

We are doing nothing good on defense. If you're going to give up an avalanche of wide open threes, you'd think the least you could do is be in better position to rebound any misses, but we can't even do that.

 

[Shad]

The Blazers have 7 players injured? Thats crazy

 

[Shad]

Yeah, there is 0 defense form the Jazz tonight

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Avdija should open a restaurant. He could call it Deni's.

 

[jazzVA]

the D in full tank mode

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

Game 1 was pretty encouraging for the goal of "don't finish 30th in defense," but it hasn't looked good the last two games, lol.

Team looks like they could finish 8th or 10th in offense and 30th in defense if they didn't make trades.

 

[Shad]

Game 1 was pretty encouraging for the goal of "don't finish 30th in defense," but it hasn't looked good the last two games, lol.

Team looks like they could finish 8th or 10th in offense and 30th in defense if they didn't make trades.

Sad thing is, im pretty sure we were 10th in defense before this game and top 5 offense (I realize we've played nobody as well and a Clippers team that didnt know the season started).

 

[Zombie]

Jesus, we allowed damn near 50 points that quarter.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

Sad thing is, im pretty sure we were 10th in defense before this game and top 5 offense (I realize we've played nobody as well and a Clippers team that didnt know the season started).

We had already dropped to 17th in defense after the Suns game fwiw.

 

[SojoDave]

Blazers getting wide open threes and wide open layups. Not a good combination for the Jazz

 

[MT Steve]

If there's a hill I'm willing to die on with the modern NBA, it's that you can't win a title if you're forced to give big minutes to rotations with multiple awful defenders.

You can get away with one really bad defender, but that really bad defender better be rock solid on offense.

The organization better start giving a damn about that end instead of treating its only good defenders like red-headed stepchildren.

 

[homeytennis]

Is the tank on? Asking for a friend.

 

[Shad]

We had already dropped to 17th in defense after the Suns game fwiw.

We'll definitely drop after tonight as well lol

 

[Step-Back Lauri]

It's a small sample size still, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen Lauri this good with his midrange game and overall balance with ball in his hand. If he keeps this up, he can become 30ppg kinda guy and you dont want to trade that guy.

EDIT: typos

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Is the tank on? Asking for a friend.

Jazz give up 46 pts in a quarter with few, if any, defensive adjustments and without calling a timeout for 10 mins. Anyone see if Will Hardy was beet-red with anger?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Jazz give up 46 pts in a quarter with few, if any, defensive adjustments and without calling a timeout for 10 mins. Anyone see if Will Hardy was beet-red with anger?

They literally changed to zone at one point....

 

[MT Steve]

Jazz give up 46 pts in a quarter with few, if any, defensive adjustments and without calling a timeout for 10 mins. Anyone see if Will Hardy was beet-red with anger?

Timeouts don't do any good if you have no answers.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

They literally changed to zone at one point....

For like 2 possessions. It kinda worked.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Really just a battle of styles and who can make their open 3s

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

For like 2 possessions. It kinda worked.

Not really. Duop just missed an open 3