Even with blowouts, how many times were we blowing a team out with 5:00 left and our starting unit was still out there? This happened frequently and even in the playoffs. Guys like Brantley, Eliza, and Morgan just sat on the bench and rotted while our main guys added miles.
The extra two minutes doesn’t add up at all. We needed depth to just load manage guys during the season or spell them in the playoffs. It’s just a BS excuse... like other teams are fresh as a daisy. Our main guys average less than a lot of other teams... that ain’t it at all.
Valuing Matt Thomas over Craig who has deep playoffs experience and fits a need just exposed this FO in the worst way. If there's ever the final straw for fans confidence in jazz management after all those weak moves over the course of last four years, that surely was it.
Matt Thomas isn’t an nba player... flat out. If DL is back so Matt will be too... DL loves sunk costs
I just have the fear that Matt might be DL's new "Niang" after we let the real one walk this offseason. Spending year after year to groom him into a borderline rotation guy who's just gonna get abused deep in the season, if the Jazz ever gets there again.
He’s garbage. He can shoot but can’t get his shot off. Everything else he is s basically hot garbage. Great work DL... what a winner.
i mean I'm hardly surprised by this Matt Thomas acquisition. He isn't the first undersized guard who DL brought onto this roster.
I get that DL should’ve added players. But it made no sense playing our starters deep into blowouts. It wore them down and prevented others from developing. This needs to change. Even if we had drafted better or added Craig, would they have gotten time if Q Thibbs our starters?
No he isn’t. He’s Jimmer 2.0. He belongs in China or Europe, not the nba. Which is why every ****ing minute thomas played over Hughes was a mistake.
Can he shoot? His shot looked slow and his percentages weren’t very good, 40 percent and 26 percent this season. Yikes
I would’ve liked guys giving him chances. It keeps players engaged if they know they might have a chance of scoring. Clearly, he needs to improve offensively. But I would’ve liked to have seen him given chances to **** up or score. Consistently ignoring him when he’s wide open frustrates him and it shows our hand to the defense. They knew they wouldn’t have to guard him since we weren’t even looking for him.
The only way that is going to happen is if the Holy Ghost descended from heaven and conferred special grace on him.
Part of the problem was the scrubs would blow the leads. One time they had to reinsert the starters. What frustrated me was not developing a few of our scrubs. You could insert then in a blowout with some of the other starters or bench guys instead of sending in all the scrubs together. Image if Udoka and Hughes got to play with the starters or bench guys perhaps they would have been ready come playoff time or at least lessen the load on our starters. Not signing Torrey Craig was just flat out stupid. The Jazz had front row seats in the Denver series. Denver wishes they had him back and Phoenix loves the guy. Instead we get Matt Thomas who is not an NBAer.
I think he was being sarcastic.
so was I in response to the Immaculate Conception -- oh. confection, didn't realize that
I agree to a certain extent. I think getting it to him is easier said than done.
Rotations were on point for the most part in the second quarter, for some reason we forgot how to do that in the second half
I guess I understand Quin leaving starters in when the Jazz are up big because the scrub squad was so bad. I think this is where DL comes into the equation. When the Jazz were getting blown out Quin always had the core guys out there fighting just to get it down to single digits to then have nothing in the tank to finish the comeback. It was always a waste.
