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We currently rank 27th in the league in passes per game and 29th in assists per game. Last year we were 12 in passes and 22nd in assists.
 
Jingled said:
We currently rank 27th in the league in passes per game and 29th in assists per game. Last year we were 12 in passes and 22nd in assists.
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This was my observation, that we have stopped all ball movement. We are playing exclusively drive and kick or hero ball. No way that is sustainable and we see it already. The motion offense is gone. No more blender. Great recipe for disaster.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This was my observation, that we have stopped all ball movement. We are playing exclusively drive and kick or hero ball. No way that is sustainable and we see it already. The motion offense is gone. No more blender. Great recipe for disaster.
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Not only is it not a great strategy for winning, it's also not fun to watch. We used to have such great ball movement that was so fun to watch.
 
Jordan Clarkson is playing with zero basketball intelligence atm and I think its rubbing off on everyone. Not to mention the absolutely pathetic defense displayed by our guards as a whole. Donovan is a dissapointment on that end.
 
While I agree that our ball movement has been terrible teams are adjusting and playing more physical defence on us, pushing our guys off their pick up points and over playing the passing lanes. Back cuts would be handy but our lack of back court size makes it hard for us to pass over the defence.
 
Jingled said:
Seems like we start slow every year and look terrible and we all start to panic and then suddenly we go on a huge run and win like 20 of 22 games. Hopefully we're on the verge of making another one of those big runs.
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True of every year with Synder except last year. FWIW.
 
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We’ve obviously struggled when Conley was out too….but one trend over the last couple of years is that we actually struggle more when everyone is healthy. When you have an overload of guys willing to take tough shots you don’t always get better shots. There’s a balance and sweet spot for the amount of self generated vs system baskets….and the Jazz are definitely too heavy on the set generated baskets side.

Talent will win out, the offense will get better. But this is another struggle that doesn’t surprise me. I brought it up all summer. This is why I wanted a larger scale trade. We could address our too many ball hogs issue and defensive issues in one go.
 
KqWIN said:
We’ve obviously struggled when Conley was out too….but one trend over the last couple of years is that we actually struggle more when everyone is healthy. When you have an overload of guys willing to take tough shots you don’t always get better shots. There’s a balance and sweet spot for the amount of self generated vs system baskets….and the Jazz are definitely too heavy on the set generated baskets side.

Talent will win out, the offense will get better. But this is another struggle that doesn’t surprise me. I brought it up all summer. This is why I wanted a larger scale trade. We could address our too many ball hogs issue and defensive issues in one go.
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Yes, you had several posts with vague and mostly abstract thoughts. None of which were particularly disagreeable on ‘vague’ or ‘abstract’ grounds; but all of which became much harder to agree with in real-world scenarios... which you aren’t particularly fond of putting out there.

That’s all good, I suppose... but it’s stomach-turning to hear you crow about being right or ahead of the curve in some way when you peddle in vagaries and abstractions.
 
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