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what this series showed is that size does matter. with an undersized Mitchell/Conley Backcourt it is always going to be uphill for Jazz defending the perimeter

Yeah but it makes Lakers more formidable

if the NBA finals series is showing anything it's that the Jazz need a significant upgrade, somebody who can create their own offense, dribble penetrate, shoot and handle the ball besides Donovan. Conley is good but undersized and injury-prone. Gobert needs to develop a J so that he can be...

lets not overreact too much. Mitchell and Conley were clearly not 100%, more like 70%. And Gobert was injured after 1st quarter. It seems he could'nt feel his right side after the hip injury, so he was probably like 70% as well. When your top 3 is like that yo arent going to win many game 6s on...

Jazz need an upgrade for Royce. Both their starting guards are a bit undersized for their positions. Given Conley's health issues I would be willing to let go of him. On the bench Clippers clearly had more depth. Every game it was somebody else other than their big 2 who put up their hands and...

on what basis do they decide as 2-point favourites? is there any basketball basis to this or pure speculation?

He was a millionaire without "learning how to work hard". how many of you can say that about yourselves?

the so called "depth" of our bench during the reason has been overrated IMO. I think when both Conley and Mitchell are around a lot of these guys weaknesses dont stand exposed. They look better than they actually are. Its the same damn thing as the 97/98/99 years. Stock and Malone made scrubs...

If he cant go, then Ingles better step up..he hasnt done much this series

Big loss for Jazz and Jazz fans. I have always thought that if we had a healthy Mark in place of Ostertag during 97/98/99, maybe John and Karl and everybody will have a couple of rings by now. Too bad he was'nt there during the peak years

Lets hope that they got the 1 bad game out of their system, chalk it up to rustiness or whatever.

And its not like Mitchell was playing these past few games and suddenly was absent tonight. Jazz have won games recently even without him. So it shouldnt have thrown them off that much. But that said the medical staff goofed up a bit by giving indications that Don will be ready for game 1 and...

if we need Don badly to put away a 8th seed tired team on our homecourt in game 1 then that doesnt exactly say championship calibre. We should have done much better than this with or without Don. We may still win this series, but to go deep, we need to do MUCH MUCH better. Conley sucked...

how did the NBA then allow San Antonio and Golden state to win all those championships?

https://kslsports.com/456386/sixers-coach-doc-rivers-doesnt-think-jazz-are-a-team-to-beat-in-the-west/ Coming from a coach, that too of Doc Rivers' calibre, what do y'all think?

I also believe the 10-day layoff before 98 finals threw the Jazz off their rhythm. You would think it would have helped those old legs, but it made them a bit rusty. It took them till game 5 to get their offense back. Stock and Horny were also not 100%, as MJ himself observed after that series...

Not denying that the Jazz weren't clutch enough at the end. But the Bulls had championship experience, more bullets and the GOAT(and as a bonus- "Dick" Bavetta). Tough to beat that. For all that triangle or rectangle offense or whatever, at the end of these tight games the Bulls offense was just...

Then next season is also a shortened one, like 1998-99? does NBA need 2 titles with asterisks next to them?

A bit painful to watch especially for those of us who followed the Jazz of the late 90s. Takeaways: 1. Jazz was a one-man offense. Malone was criminally underrated those years and maybe even now. The second-best option was a one-legged Horny with <15ppg who was never athletic enough to begin...

If you have bene following the Jazz for as long as I have you'll realize the Jazz management philosophy is not about swinging for the fences or breaking the bank for a championship. It's always been about keeping the team just about competitive enough for a playoff spot and then hoping for a...