LoPo
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Fox is playing like an alpha. Mitchell isn't. Right now, Sacramento is better.
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He played 20 minutes post all-star and 23.5 in the playoffs last year. His minutes are trending down.
LoPo
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Douchebag K
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for those more educated in X's and O's ... is our offense TOO complicated ???
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Basketball is stupid.
No. Our players are too limited. Rubio can only score under certain circumstances. Favors can only score from a few spots on the floor, and he needs to be set up. Same with Gobert. Ingles only has a few moves on offense. Dallas figured out how to defend us.
Other than Mitchell and Burks (when he's feeling it), our players just aren't very dynamic. So they're supposed to execute a system of ball movement where defenders are put in a pick-your-poison situation. But when everyone's missing shots, there is no poison to worry about.
In order to take over games, Mitchell needs to be able to go to his mid-range pull-up jumpers. He can't always score at the rim on two or three defenders, and his 3-ball has been off a bit.
When everything goes to **** like it did tonight, a superstar player is supposed to just take over---like Giannis driving hard to the rim, or Lilliard taking shots he knows he can hit. If the team concept isn't working, a player like Mitchell is supposed to just take over.
Largely because of injuries. When the team was fully healthy he wasnt getting major minutes. He was getting about the same as he has this year.
Yeah, probably. Doncic is special.
O'Neale just hasnt been good this year. He runs a perpetual weave because he is terrified of catch and shoot 3's above the break if his defender is within 6 feet of him. Combine that with Exum who has the same issue and it's just too hard to play them many minutes. Burks can at least create offense and finish offense created for him, at some level.
Both Rubio and Crowder are shooting under 20% on 3-pt attempts in the last 5 games. That's tough to overcome.
Edit: 11 for 61, or 18%
Edit: 11 for 61, or 18%
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Rubio was injured during the playoffs but who was injured last year post-all star break?
More hot takes:
** Burks has the physical talent of a quality starter, but not the mental toughness.
** Royce O'Neale has the mental toughness of a quality starter, but not the physical talent.
** Exum can be your starting point guard, if nearly everyone else on the floor can score efficiently, create from themselves and convert in difficult situations.
** Rubio can be your starting point guard if everyone else can shoot off the catch and off the bounce.
** We should probably be grooming Mitchell as the point guard of the future. It requires more energy from him, but he's got the basic ability to do it better than both Rubio and Exum. He just needs to be developed.
** Khris Middleton would be great on the wing for us.
** Both Exum and Favors are pretty elite back-ups.
** Burks has the physical talent of a quality starter, but not the mental toughness.
** Royce O'Neale has the mental toughness of a quality starter, but not the physical talent.
** Exum can be your starting point guard, if nearly everyone else on the floor can score efficiently, create from themselves and convert in difficult situations.
** Rubio can be your starting point guard if everyone else can shoot off the catch and off the bounce.
** We should probably be grooming Mitchell as the point guard of the future. It requires more energy from him, but he's got the basic ability to do it better than both Rubio and Exum. He just needs to be developed.
** Khris Middleton would be great on the wing for us.
** Both Exum and Favors are pretty elite back-ups.
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Rubio missed a handful of games
Burks was mostly out
Exum was out til mid March
Thabo was out
Crowder just joined the team
Grayson Allen wasnt on the team
Inn Dawn
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What's it going to take for a loss to be taken as a hysterical overreaction? This isn't laying an egg. There should be no excuses for this record-breaking loss. No injuries, not on a back-to-back, and not being in the throes of a losing streak.
This loss is laughably atrocious.
The only positive I can possibly take from this pathetic loss is if the team uses it as a catalyst for change like they did last season when they went on that tear after losing in Atlanta.
This loss is laughably atrocious.
The only positive I can possibly take from this pathetic loss is if the team uses it as a catalyst for change like they did last season when they went on that tear after losing in Atlanta.
Witty Username
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Can't seem to hit layups apparently, however
Every team's scouting report must say, sag off of Rubio and prevent Gobert and Mitchell from getting to the rim.
I've said it 6 different ways already, but I think Rubio's lack of shooting, the lack of floor spacing it creates, and the lack of offensive versatility it leaves us with, puts us at a disadvantage. If Ingles, Mitchell and Crowder are hitting their shots and making plays, then we can overcome Rubio's limitations. But if these guys are struggling too, then the offense is just too limited.
You can't have a non-shooting PG unless the other players spacing the floor are shooting well. It makes the Jazz's margin of error very slim.
You can't have a non-shooting PG unless the other players spacing the floor are shooting well. It makes the Jazz's margin of error very slim.