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Game Thread Dec 23, 2020: Jazz at Trail Blazers

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This will be very tough: Portland is a better team than a lot of people believe.
Nevertheless, this is a must win.
Key points:
  1. A good deal of effort at defense, especially perimeter defense.
  2. Creation of good 3-point shots.
  3. Second unit + bench players who can make the difference
Let's go!!!
 
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Troat Guru said:
This will be very tough: Portland is a better team than a lot of people believe.
Nevertheless, this is a must win.
Kay points:
  1. A good deal of effort at defense, especially perimeter defense.
  2. Creation of good 3-point shots.
  3. Second unit + bench players who can make the difference
Let's go!!!
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Portland way worse team than people believe. If the Jazz dont win this comfortably I will be disappointed.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Portland way worse team than people believe. If the Jazz dont win this comfortably I will be disappointed.
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They looked awful in pre-season. Nurkic looks bad. Almost no one tries on defense. Maybe they can flip a switch, but it looks like they're going to try to outshoot teams.
 
FAILED STATE said:
Game 1.... This will clearly test the coaching staff‘s initial mindset on how to use our perimeter defenders.
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Rudy has looked a little more spry in pre-season to me... I think we see chip on his shoulder locked in Rudy this year. Would love to see us show just a little higher on some nights or at least alternate.
 
Hyped myself up last year for this offense with multiple options and a smooth flow. My son's birthday gift were tickets to the first game against OKC. We ended up winning but man was it a clunky game. I was thinking, damn, it's good to get a win out in a game that we played like we flushed paper towels down the toilet. But then that continued. Anything better than that tonight and it's a success.
 
Jazzmix said:
Let the "This is the season when we get to see healthy Mike Conley" begin.
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Yep
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Troat Guru said:
This will be very tough: Portland is a better team than a lot of people believe.
Nevertheless, this is a must win.
Kay points:
  1. A good deal of effort at defense, especially perimeter defense.
  2. Creation of good 3-point shots.
  3. Second unit + bench players who can make the difference
Let's go!!!
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What does Kay know about anything?
 
infection said:
Hyped myself up last year for this offense with multiple options and a smooth flow. My son's birthday gift were tickets to the first game against OKC. We ended up winning but man was it a clunky game. I was thinking, damn, it's good to get a win out in a game that we played like we flushed paper towels down the toilet. But then that continued. Anything better than that tonight and it's a success.
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I'm feeling pretty good about this. The clunkiness was related to Mike last year... DM gonna run more of the actions and Mike can't be worse. I think based on pre-season we are being a little smarter and just taking open threes when they are presented to us.

Just hope we keep the good vibes going... a clunky let down would make me so flaccid. Even if we play well in a loss I will be happy... just please don't look like ****.
 
FAILED STATE said:
It’s much more likely that the bubble’s effect related to depth perception—better visibility of the rim, in particular.
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Interesting, I had never thought of that.

I think there is probably something to idea that players were also just generally more focused on basketball rather than travel, day-to-day life, and the obvious going out and partying at (strip) clubs that probably degrades the quality of the game more than we understand.
 
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