Game Thread Dec 31, 2020 7:00PM MT: Jazz vs. Suns

[MT Steve]

Wouldn't be shocked if the Suns have a better season this year than the Jazz will ever have in the entire Quin era.

They're not as talented as Utah, but they're extremely well coached.

 

[Elizah Huge]

lol, Quin still thinks that Royce can defend guards.

Getting torched by Booker.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Welp, Happy New Year, everyone. See you back here tomorrow.

 

[KqWIN]

We're going to continue to be a terrible team as long as Bogey and Mitchell continue to be terrible. Luckily, I don't think they are actually terrible players. But there's no mistaking their performance so far this season. Complete disasters on both ends.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

looked closer to a no-call on the replay, so naturally the refs upgraded it to the flagrant. they always double down when they go to the screen, no matter what they see there.

There was an argument for no foul and off Booker. The body contact was partly on Royce but mostly because Booker was going hard to the hole from the wing.

I noticed there was no review or call for a review when Rudy got karate chopped in the face though.

 

[Hekate]

Dat "at least we tried" effort, doe.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Nah, Quin is going full Thibbs.

They have a full 24 hours to rest before the next game so give em as many minutes as possible.

 

[zyzz]

Deja vu from minnesota game. Can we play all 48 mins well?

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Weren't we masters of this 2 years ago? Or was it early last year... it's been so long...

 

[Avery]

Donovan has been the most inefficient shooter in the league thus far by a large margin.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Size, shooting and toughness. The Jazz need more of it.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Boler: "It's an amazing thing: Donavan can get 21 even when he struggles!" yes, it is so amazing when a chucker manages to get his points.

Boler was in rare form tonight. I wish Thurl wouldn’t have called him on the CP Jevon Carter thing early in the game... I wanted to see if he’d confuse the two all night.

 

[The Thriller]

You’re not going to win many games when your 4 SFs go:

5-20 16 pts in 102 mins
Favors alone gave us 10 pts in 14 mins and his role isn’t to shoot and score.

I don’t know why Hughes isn’t playing more. Especially if Bojan isn’t right.

 

[homeytennis]

You’re not going to win many games when your 4 SFs go:

5-20 16 pts in 102 mins
Favors alone gave us 10 pts in 14 mins and his role isn’t to shoot and score.

I don’t know why Hughes isn’t playing more. Especially if Bojan isn’t right.

Starting guards shot 38% for us tonight and they were chucking away.

 

[LogGrad98]

Size, shooting and toughness. The Jazz need more of it.

And perimeter defense, good coaching, consistent effort, coherent game plans, in-game adjustments, reduced turnovers, etc. etc.

 

[MCarter]

Whatever. Our future is a kid who grew up wealthy and is now rich. Not sure how much intrinsic drive he’ll now have.

Stupidest **** I’ve ever heard. Dude obviously made it to the nba with some real hard work. Seems very intelligent as well.

 

[SteakNEggs]

*soft*

 

[infection]

Alright, every coach has their weaknesses and all, but these consistent struggles where we have these inexplicable mental funks, at some point this has to fall on the coach, where he has to be dynamic enough to recognize this and find ways to navigate out of ********* like this. It can just be on the players. He played 8 guys tonight, sans Niang’s 6 minutes. Odds that tomorrow’s rotation looks like tonight’s, with dead legs? High.

 

[homeytennis]

Resign NWG.

 

[SoUjazzfan]

This game pretty well sums up 2020, just an ugly, rotten year.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It’s the decision making that has me worried on DM. I can see him thinking.... nothing seems natural or easy right now. I can almost stop the game and tell you when he will just try a straight line drive instead of using change in speed or pace. When he shoots the pull-up three it seems forced instead of rhythmic.

Bojan being garbage after the surgery makes sense. He gets some time to figure it out. DM should not be this bad. We are not asking him to do anything that is a whole lot different than we asked last year.