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Plus with the acquisition of guys like Mudiay, Joe can play the facilitator in the second unit with some scoring punch around him as well. The roster has gained crazy amounts of flexibility.

I haven't posted in ages but this offseason is shaping up really great. No guarantee of course that the end result will be any better than the last couple of seasons because except if Donovan does the Jump, to go all the way when you don't have a top 5 star in this league is really really hard...

Regarding Love per se, he has interesting qualities. Sure he is not fully complementary with Gobert since he is a poor wing defender (well, poor defender overall really) and he is at his best at the elbow or rebounding the ball which would crowd the paint. But he is a great 3pt shooter, he is a...

Maybe, but in the west once you get there the title is yours... At some point you have to beat the Warriors.

I see Simmons as great but limited by his shot which will be his repeated over and over again downfall if it doesn't get significantly better. He cannot be a n°1 guy with such a broken shot, it will get exposed by teams giving him the Rondo treatment in the playoffs. He could still have great...

this is what is very very very difficult for many shooting guards / wings in today's nba : you cannot pound the ball anymore, it's over. Either you are a supreme shot creator for others and yourself and you can dribble, or you have to be good without it and fast in making a decision with it...

You can't have your team carried by AK, but he could have been the Draymond Green of his time which would make him immensely valuable, the ultimate glue guy. We always end up setting up artificial choices ie it was DW or AK, the key to being a great team isn't in the chosing, it's in making it...

It just goes to show how without the "intangibles" you need to have a massively good specific skill to be on the floor... in an era where players are categorized à la Brad Stevens : point guards, wings (smallish and biggish) or centers, you can't be a wing who needs the ball in his hand but has...

I sort of agreed with Mc Grady : Rudy and the team need to learn how to quickly punish a mismatch where Paul or some other midget ends up on him in a switch. They all need to learn how to quickly recognise it, seal it and use a simple one or two dribble move to punish it. To do that Rudy need to...

To be honest the only real gripe with Simmons being ROY is the redshirt year getting acclimatised with the environment, etc... But hey Blake Griffith got the Roy despite of that, so as long as it's not forbidden, it makes sense to give it to Simmons for the overall impact. The main point about...

I know ! Still what I meant is that even with Gobert coming back, had Boston not run out of steam at the end of the season with their injuries as well, it wouldn't had been that close. Teams and people can be unlucky or lucky at different times right ? We were unlucky to have gobert injured, we...

Yep. BKN didn't score... Still, the defensive identity is there !

There is a very very very solid foundation here indeed : Mitchell-Gobert-Snyder. This is a super solid core. The great bit as well is that the Jazz is in a very very very sound financial situation just as the market is if not certainly crashing, that would be an overstatement, at least...

one game is a non game where end of benches play, could end up as a no grit 120-115. The other is a tight pre playoff game for teams going for the best possible seed, should be more of a 102-97 affair... But yes it is still not done at all. If BKN lays an egg or POR gets hot from 3. Still pretty...

A bit lucky in the end, the Celtics ran out of gas in the last few games but hey we had injuries early on, pretty awesome though and I think this all but guarantees DPOY for Gobert : He is the linchpin of the NBA's best defense. That puts any discussion to rest.

Winning awards is about one's accomplishments and the general context, ie who else is there, what they have done this year, their reputation, etc. For Gobert the firs part was a problem with all his injuries, but with what the Jazz have been doing lately, the box is ticked if he avoids an injury...

So true. OKC is bad matchup for us. Doesn't mean Portland is easy in any way, but we match up better. OKC has Adams who is one of the few centers in this league who makes it difficult for Gobert, plus Westbrook, a rim attacking machine who might be bothered by Gobert but is also one of the few...

With Hayward gone the ability to create shots has nosedived, simple as that, the team is unbalanced and primed for a trade. Favors seems to be the bone asset we have we could get some scoring for. won't be easy though.

No they don't, they get a "student who wasn't really a student but an athlete and probably wouldn't really be qualified for an actual job if he can't make it into sports and who might even be illiterate for all I care" free degree.. not exactly a sesame to employment and fruitful careers. A sham...

No they don't, they get a "student who wasn't really a student but an athlete and probably wouldn't really be qualified for an actual job if he can't make it into sports and who might even be illiterate for all I care" free degree.. not exactly a sesame to employment and fruitful careers. A sham...