Game Thread Oct 19, 2023 08:00PM MT: Jazz at Kings (Preseason)

[HermanG]

I'm still worried. We've played, Portland, New Zealand, and the Sacramento B team the last 3 games. I don't consider any of those teams legitimate NBA defenses. When we played the Clippers, we looked really bad.

A point guard isn't just supposed to get stats, but they should be setting up their teammates and running an offense. I haven't seen that against quality competition yet.

We can only play the teams on our schedule, so it's fine, but eventually I would like to see our offense look good against a good defense.

Clippers games were full of mistakes, stagnant movement and abysmal shooting (FT included).. all pointing to Hardy pushing them and having them run lines in TC again like he did last year.

But whatever the excuse, you are 100% correct in the sense that we havent seen good offense against any decent defense yet.

 

[fishonjazz]

Nothing more important than rookie preseason production

Ah you think that is what i said. i see why you are confused now. I actually said i prefer production over moving good and looking cool and making flashy plays.

Like I though Hendricks looked fast, and big and athletic and had a smooth looking shot in pre season. But I would way rather have him go 10-15 for 28 points and 12 rebounds and 3 blocks instead.

 

[whatthe]

The Jazz will lose badly to the great teams and beat the bottom dwellers and be competitive with everyone else. We are going to be gimmicky with our lineups the whole season.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Ah you think that is what i said. i see why you are confused now. I actually said i prefer production over moving good and looking cool and making flashy plays.

Like I though Hendricks looked fast, and big and athletic and had a smooth looking shot in pre season. But I would way rather have him go 10-15 for 28 points and 12 rebounds and 3 blocks instead.

You're unbelievable lmao

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Like I though Hendricks looked fast, and big and athletic and had a smooth looking shot in pre season. But I would way rather have him go 10-15 for 28 points and 12 rebounds and 3 blocks instead.

How does he possibly put up that statline without showing exciting flashes of talent? You are acting like the two things are at odds with each other.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

How does he possibly put up that statline without showing exciting flashes of talent? You are acting like the two things are at odds with each other.

Yeah, you can go like 3/5 and do it looking kind of crappy, but you aren't dropping an efficient 28-12-3 by accident.

But Fish gonna Fish

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

And Hendricks hasn't made a single athletic play all preseason.

 

[HermanG]

The Jazz will lose badly to the great teams and beat the bottom dwellers and be competitive with everyone else. We are going to be gimmicky with our lineups the whole season.

Thats a wild prediction since its absolutely opposite from what we saw last season.

We lost our series against only 5 West teams: 1-2 vs Kings, 1-2 vs Suns, 1-3 vs Mavs, 1-3 vs Blazers and 1-3 vs Thunder. So all of our 1-3 series were against lottery teams. We also split our series with Spurs.

We gave the top teams a hard time but had a hard time ourselves against mediocre and bottom teams.

Also almost all our losses were close. The only team who beat us badly twice last season were the Bucks.

 

[fishonjazz]

How does he possibly put up that statline without showing exciting flashes of talent? You are acting like the two things are at odds with each other.

Im saying that if he wasn't looking athletic and making amazing plays but producing good numbers by just playing sound fundamentals then I would be happier. I like production. Even when its simple basic easy stuff.

 

[fishonjazz]

And Hendricks hasn't made a single athletic play all preseason.

Yep. And I wouldnt care if he was scoring and rebounding nicely.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Im saying that if he wasn't looking athletic and making amazing plays but producing good numbers by just playing sound fundamentals then I would be happier. I like production. Even when its simple basic easy stuff.

 

[KqWIN]

Have to say, if Hendricks busted out the 37 year old Dirk package and produced without looking athletic I would be DAMN impressed.