Game Thread Dec 18, 2021 07:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Wizards

[Gameface]

The sky isn't falling after Jazz fall to Wizards, but some things need to be addressed

With 15 seconds remaining, Donovan Mitchell lined up across from former teammate Raul Neto for a pivotal jump ball. He lost it, and the Jazz lost the game.

www.ksl.com

 

[Katastrofica]

Royce is so overrated as a perimeter defender.

Very overated.Also jc and don took 22 3 s and had 7 To . Rudy with 4 to didn't help.

 

[infection]

At least DWill won tonight.

 

[akirac73]

We need a clutch player on this team...is Joe Johnson still in basketball shape?

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

Watching the Suns in the clutch is just something else. They value the hell out of each and every possession, move the ball extremely well, and work damn hard to get a good shot off. The Jazz just settle for garbage and the ball movement completely dies.

It's fascinating. By almost every metric, the stats would paint the Jazz as the superior team. But what the stats don't track is that the Suns are hard as hell to beat in the clutch, whereas the Jazz are very miserable in those same situations.

And the problems aren't that difficult to identify - it's mind-blowing to me that nothing has been done to fix it. This has been a years-long issue.

Ainge is here to save the day! Let the shakeup (did not say BLOW UP) begin!

 

[fishonjazz]

Another night with dudes hitting ridiculous shots at the end. I mean we run some dumb hero ball with donovan taking highly contested bad shots but both teams that just beat us made highly contested bad shots at the end.

 

[reignman40]

Honestly, how many times are we going to loose at the buzzer??

 

[The Fresh Prince]

Depressing. What happened to the strategy of feeding it down low that made us look dominant for half of that 8 game winning streak?

 

[infection]

I believe Quin has this exactly right but the wrong direction. The team that won 8 in a row is also the team that played tonight, but we would have never said that while they were winning 8 in a row.

 

[infection]

I’m getting these random suggested tweets. This one was from earlier today but still relevant.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

Another night with dudes hitting ridiculous shots at the end. I mean we run some dumb hero ball with donovan taking highly contested bad shots but both teams that just beat us made highly contested bad shots at the end.

Didn’t see tonight’s contest but l didn’t see a lot of high contest effort from our starting guards down the stretch last night. There were a few I guess but I kept wondering how their guards were so wide open on the pull ups.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

NBA channel continually slighting the Jazz. Third or fourth time they’ve gone to break with the Jazz teaser only to return with more highlights from the other games, nothing from the Jazz game. Ouch!

 

[Jingled]

Why is the ref trying to surprise the players during a jump ball?

 

[jazzVA]

Neto was ready for it and Don was standing there with his thumb up his ***.

 

[Jingled]

 

[LogGrad98]

Depressing. What happened to the strategy of feeding it down low that made us look dominant for half of that 8 game winning streak?

Donovan wanted to be the hero. So that's what happened.

 

[fishonjazz]

Didn’t see tonight’s contest but l didn’t see a lot of high contest effort from our starting guards down the stretch last night. There were a few I guess but I kept wondering how their guards were so wide open on the pull ups.

You weren't paying attention then. There was plenty of great defense being played. Unfortunately guys were shooting over our little guys even when they played great defense. The game winning shot from the spurs was defended by rudy as good as he has ever defended anyone before but the dude made and insane shot to win the game. Kind of like the fade away buzzer beater three pointer from way beyond the three point line tonight.

 

[homeytennis]

Still think Neto is garbage?

 

[Jingled]

We've already lost 6 games at home, we only lost 5 at home all last season.

 

[SoUjazzfan]

I really wouldn't mind seeing Paschall get some of Joes minutes to see if a little energy and intensity would help when we get stagnant on defense.