It's the most wonderful time of the year (first game of the year!). Hou @ Jazz Game 1 of many.

[Fabtrey]

good lesson. now everybody shoots 2000 3s tomorrow.

 

[KarlMalone]

Honestly we had good looks the shots were just not falling for us. I hated kanter tho he passed up open 3s and his defense is terrible!

Karl Malone taught Kanter last summer. Karl Malone doesn't think Kanter listened. He needs to learn to think quicker on his feet and play with more confidence.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

good lesson. now everybody shoots 2000 3s tomorrow.

Don't think we have a problem shooting 3's, just think our offense never got into it's flow. Once we get the offensive running smoother vs. pressure defense the shots will come more easily.

 

[Diamond77]

Kanter looked really lost in the sauce on defense.

He sucked on defense...but we lost the game because the Rockets made 14 three-pointers mostly wide open...the entire defense has to be blamed!(except Gobert)

 

[ijazz]

Listen Hayward needs to score more. So he makes a few nice passes. He is one of our primary scorers. He missed wide open shots.

Agreed.

He fought for MAX and got it.

Content Role player is 9-10 / year tops. 15-16 / year = put the ball in my hands alpha dog.

Disappointed in his lack of agression.

I am also dissapointed the bigs did not share the ball. Once it hit the paint it seldom came out....

 

[stitches]

I have no idea why you are bashing on Hayward! He played an all around great game, with the exception of shooting... He has 8 rebounds and 7 assists, he was distributing the ball nicely and creating open shots... Just his own shots were not falling and the refs screwed him up on several non-calls... With that said... he needs to knock most of those open shots down!

 

[HighlandHomie]

Time to put it behind us and let our nuts hang in Dallas. Lets go Jazz!!!!

 

[Jazzyy]

On the bright side we are more entertaining than last year!

 

[MDAV28]

I have no idea why you are bashing on Hayward! He played an all around great game, with the exception of shooting... He has 8 rebounds and 7 assists, he was distributing the ball nicely and creating open shots... Just his own shots were not falling and the refs screwed him up on several non-calls... With that said... he needs to knock most of those open shots down!

It's just stupid. I'm already sick of the "Max player needs to .." crap. Imagine this team without him.

 

[VINYLONE]

Downside: 3pt defense and any defensive play Kanter was involved in.

Yeah. Our outside defense was non-existent. That is no bueno when you're playing a team like the Rockets. I mean, those dudes can shoot the **** out of the ball.

we can't make any 3.

Yup. That was really discouraging. 16 percent from 3 is ****ing ridiculous. 3 of 18? Oy vey.

 

[enchilada_style]

I feel like Kanter has a little Fesenko in him. The game is just too fast for his peanut brain.

 

[CAKAR]

Bitching about Kanters defense, when the max guy on this team sucked on offense and defense ?... Ariza scored 20 points on 9 shots guarded by Hayrad and our maxplayer was not even capable of scoring more than 8 points in 40 minutes of play.

If Kanter sucks this season, it´s no problem for the Jazz to match any offer he gets. But with Hayward, we will have to deal for 5 years with his Max-Contract, if he can not develop some Max worthy game...