Okay - how about...
1) not having Rudy guard Mann and have him guard beverly instead?
2) running any type of action in teh 2nd half that didn't result in an iso with 5 seconds left on the shot clock
3) having Gobert chill on the low block more instead of setting the high screen which resulted in Don or whoever getting trapped over and over agian
4) Favors actually played decent minutes- why didn't he play at all in teh 2nd half after Rudy was burnt toast
5) playing niang at all this series was a mistake. It was a terrible matchup and was so easy it would fail from the onset - why not mix up the roations and dig deeper into the bench?
6) reliance on 3 ball when it's not falling ...
1) then it would be Beverley who goes off and he's shown in the past he's well capable
2) "any type of action" you mean what type of action? please be specific because the way i see it, when Clippers has the personnel to switch on everything it's really tough to get wide open looks off screen play/ball movement, so you'd just have to rely on your star players to beat their defenders, and that is iso-ball for you. Every coach does it in that situation, including pop, carlisle, and phil jackson, who is the king of iso-ball. I don't see any thing wrong with that.
3) Rudy chilling on the low block means even more wide open shots for Mann/Beverley and we've seen what a terrible idea that is.
4) Because Favs isn't the solution to Rudy's problem. Let's not forget about Quin putting Favs in that same situation in game 3 and 4 and he's done even worse with a defensive rating of over 140. Quin just saving Favs the misery and embarrassment by not subbing him in. What we need is a small ball five with mobility and range in this situation, and we don't have that player on our team.
5) Because like i said, the deeper into the bench the worse it gets. Doke, Hughes and Brantley so far has done nothing to prove that they are actual NBA materials. They couldn't even do it in the regular season, so why would they now all of sudden do it in the playoffs?
Niang has at least shown enough positives in the regular season to warrant playing time in this series, and you just called playing him "a mistake". And now imagine Quin playing Ersan, Morgan, Doke over him and they all suck as expected. What JFZ is gonna be like?
"NO NIANG???????????? WHAT THE HELL WAS QUIN THINKING?"
6) Like I've said over and over again, this Jazz team is only designed to play one style of basketball with no flexibility whatsoever.
Guys like Ingles, Bojan, Clarkson, Conley, Royce...They are who they are, and their biggest threat on the floor is their three ball.
So Unless we bring in athletic slashers who can get to the rim at will, or low post threats who could earn us some buckets in the paint, there isn't really a valid alternative for Quin to shift away from the three ball shooting so we have to live or die on that.
And that's on DL for finding the right personnel, not on Quin who can't turn Rudy into a low-post scorer, or turn Ingles/Bojan into slasher/rim runner.
