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Posted by: Jazzed uponit on May 5th, 2012
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.I don’t agree with some things Ty said recently in media when asked about strategy problems. He’s been saying things like ” we just need to make the right cuts, set better screens, and guys need to get to their spots”. I don’t think its practical to rely on sets and screens when fouls aren’t getting called and Popovich is just owning in the play call and offensive/sets chess match because his guys have been doing the same thing for years and hundreds of playoff games.
While watching the Nuggets put a beat down on the Lakers last night I noticed the key players were Faried, McGee, Lawson, and Andre Miller. Mcgee +30, Lawson, +23, Miller +17, Faried +5 (went 6-16 FG, but had 15 Rebounds, half of them offensive boards.) Gallanari went 3-11 FG on outside shooting but still had the 3rd most minutes played (33:22).
During a time out at the beginning of the game coach Karl basically told his guys : hey dont worry about getting the perfect set just go out and play. meaning use your basketball intuition and just play. All of those players mentioned have good basketball IQ and they excelled the most.
The jazz have a very good if not better equivalency to the lineup Nuggets use the most. Our best guys intuitively are Tinsley, Hayward, Millsap, Favors, and Burkes. I think they should get the most minutes subing in guys that want to fight hard with energy so subs would be Carol,Kanter, Evans, and Ahearn
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The only thing going to beat the spurs is hard nosed basketball. Play tough play hard.. To many of our players are soft..
Coach Karl Played Mcgee and Faried more than 30 minutes against Bynam and Gasol. Faried and Mcgee battled and won, I just wish Favors and Kanter were given a legit chance to battle.
Hopefully the crowd lets Corbin know how they feel if he makes his usual dumb decisions
Ha ha , cant wait for Corbin to leave him out of starting lineups! Good job Mason
The difference between the Nuggets and the Jazz is that the Nuggets don’t have a jackass for a coach.
George Karl is a good coach.
Tyrone Corbin is stupid.
The different between the Jazz and the Nuggets is the Jazz dont have a PG who can pass the ball and get it inside, the Jazz have no outside threats, and all of that makes it quite simple. Guard the paint and Utah is toast. Plain and simple, there is no inside out game, if there is no outside threat. How many of Harris’s passes have been stolen or deflected. You put all the blame on the bigs for pick and role defense, but the bottom line is there is no pressure on other PG’s from out team which starts with our own PG. When Utah plays well from the outside, we win. That hasnt happened yet in this playoff series.
We need sharp shooters, and a PG. Sad thing is we are all but out of the draft this season, and there arent many SF’s on the market this year. There is a lot of PG’s in Free agency. Maybe we can get lucky and find someone looking to off load cap, trade Harris away for a good SF and land a good PG this off season. If not, there is always next seasons trade deadline when Al’s, Harris’s, Bells combined 27 mil might look good coming off of someones books in trade for something of value.
As it looks today, we are SOL till something changes and its not necessarily bigs either. We need leadership at the PG, and a SF. Both of which need to be a perimeter threat of somekind, to help spread defenses.
@Patrick I agree with you about a point guard. Analysts talk about it all the time. You cant be a contender in this league without a premiere PG. NBA officials call the perimeter differently now, no more hand checks allowing driving penetration to the hoop etc. Harris has some great nights but all in all he is not a true PG, or he struggles setting up halfcourt and getting assists to the bigs. Some of that problem could be Al’s ball holding.