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Jazz Beat Portland…
Posted by: Michael on October 25th, 2012
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.I was able to attend the game tonight, and there were a few things that stuck out to me…
First, when ever Hayward touched the ball in the first unit, it seemed that the pace picked up and something happened. Hayward needs more touches. When Hayward is not included in the offense, it seemed stale.
Second, Favors didn’t seem to do much this game… Wait, what, he scored 21?! Surprisingly, he did so much, but the offense didn’t always have to run through him. That is why I like Favors (same reason I like Millsap), he is productive without demanding the play called for him. It is the put backs, fast breaks and ability to get to the foul line where Favors really can do special things. He had less offensive fouls tonight, and he stayed engaged in the offense.
Next, is what the story-line of the night will be, Kanter… 21 points 12 boards, in 25 minutes (by the way… per 36 minutes that is 30 points 17 boards! and for all of the 8 pre-season games he was 22.3 points and 15.9 boards per 36 minutes – what a great pre-season). He has great touch with his 8-18 foot jumper. He had a monster put back dunk on an offensive board that was spectacular. He is definitely playing more above the rim and confident this season. Both Kanter and Favors were 8-13 from the field and both made 5 free throws. I know David Locke is big on points vs. shots taken in a game. Well, 13 shots with 21 points is great! He slams Big Al a little on this subject, because Big Al only scores barely over the number of shots attempted, for example, tonight he was 15 shots for 15 points, average 1 point per shot. Favors and Kanter, well, they were 1.6 points per shot tonight. The nice thing about Kanter and Favors big numbers tonight is that they didn’t get all of them in garbage time. They were on the floor a lot with Portland’s starters. Aldridge played 34 minutes tonight, Big Al and Millsap played 23 and 22, respectively. That means that half the time Favors was in, he matched up against Aldridge (again it is pre-season, and players are not as engaged/intense, but their bigs looked like they were competing hard). Great game from the PF/C positions for the Jazz tonight, the four bigs combined for 67 of the 97 points scored. It was also nice to see Favors and Kanter get a little more minutes than Al and Millsap tonight. Kanter is proving to the staff that he is ready to average 24 minutes a night, he didn’t look fatigued at all.
Millsap showed why he needs to stay… 5 steals, 3 assists with 10 points in 22 minutes… He frustrated Aldridge…
Burks surprisingly didn’t get to the line tonight, but still had 9 points on only 9 shots. He had a very nice fast break dunk tonight. He also played some point with Kevin Murphy at the end of the half. It looks like he kept up against Portland’s PG (I am pretty sure he was guarding Lilliard). I wouldn’t mind him doing more of that, and getting more comfortable running point next to Hayward and Williams, who all are pretty decent ball handlers and play makers.
Cons… I am worried about the first unit. Going back to my point about Hayward, the offense is too stale. The plays are not fluid yet. Also, on defense, it seemed that Portland made it difficult for the Jazz to get to their spots, while they seemed to run through their offense and the Jazz started defending on the ball. There were some good rotations on defense, but they need to make Portland work for position and work to get through screens more.
I don’t think Tinsley matches the fast pace of the second unit anymore. Corbin has emphasized fast pace, and Tinsley doesn’t push the ball much. The pace was much quicker when Foye and Burks played the guard positions in previous games. Also, Foye makes you defend his shot, Tinsley again went scoreless tonight for the 3rd night in a row (he did although lead the team in assists tonight, which he did so much last year beating out Harris).
Overall, it was an exciting game to watch and I look forward to the Jazz season this year. For the pre-season looking at what the Jazz have looked like compared to the other teams….
Offense – #8 scoring, #1 from the 3!
Defense – #4 opponent scoring, # 14 from 3…
Overall – #3 in point differential
Again, it is preseason, so get ready for some real basketball and let’s see what our Jazz can do this year!! GO JAZZ!
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I’M SO PSYCHE FOR THE SEASON TO START!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Young guys continue to impress. So excited for this season but even more excited for the future!!! Go Jazz!
Dont get down on Tinsley, he did just have his wisdom teeth pulled. Remember the games against the lakers and clippers, he definitely pushed the ball in those games. He’s a true PG, i love watching him play, he’s old school like andre miller.
Also if we can keep our rotation for the 4 bigs at 24 minutes a night for each of em, i’m all in favor of that! I know that sounds crazy, i don’t care. It’ll keep them fresh and allow them to play hard each night. Thats the whole point of having depth.
I’m excited for the season, and feel we could have a great season. The Playoffs will be a different story. BUT we can be a very good regular season team.
@Steve
That is so simple, but its brilliant! Why argue about minutes for the four bigs? Just give everyone 24 minutes! Two quarters each, every game.
Then all Coach Corbin needs to figure out is which combos are going to work best together. I might just make a post of this, examining strengths and weaknesses of the different combos.
Remember when people wanted to trade Kanter after a Summer League game?! Hahaha!! Wow, you guys were wrong.
I can live with a 24 minutes split….but, I still believe it should be the starting point and not the absolute line. In other words, if you play bad (play with no energy, not tough, not active; if you get burned on P&R continuously, if you don’t fight for rebounds) then I think you time should be docked. That way everyone plays at a high level, or only the players that are playing at a high level play. If someone doesn’t like it, then they get traded. SImple.
My big problem is Corbin (implied) and others claiming that Foye deserves more time than Burks. That’s just plain ole dumb and biased. Burks is better: better at the SG, and quite frankly, better at the PG position. And yes I do realize Burks had more minutes than Foye last night, but I am talking about when Mo plays like 30+ minutes, either Foye or Burks is gonna get less than 10 probably. So come on, if you can say Foye deserves 20+ minutes and Burks > 10 minutes, you are either CRAZY, or a damn Burks hater. Burks will be insanely good. But I guess like Kanter, everyone hates til the bandwagon is filling up, then they jump on.
SO excited!! Better than my best case scenereo for preseason!!!
@ Enes and Alec
IMO Burks should have definitely been a number 6, maybe 5 or 4 pick in that draft. Kyrie Irving didnt even play half of the year that he went #1 and I remember thinking wtf, is he that good? how do they know someone that just got injured and sat out half a college season is going to be that legit? And then he gets ROTY and silences me. Lol i actually love his game, but now Enes…. Kanter had zero gamefilm, zero highschool, zero college. picked up a basketball very late at 14 yo ? i believe. and scouts put him @ #3??????
From a weak draft with most likely few allstars. We may have gotten 2
http://www.nba.com/jazz/video/playlist/20121025-jazz-blazers.html
So this post game vid of Favors, I think is hilarious. A certain sports writer talks about the big elephant in the room and asks Favs if him and Kanter deserve to start LOL!
@Omar Im pretty sure that statement about Foye/Burks isnt the dumbest thing corbin will say or do this season. im tipping outside the top ten. Is anyone willing to say or even think that Corbin will start Favors on Thursday
@omar i bet it pains jazz fans to see kanter outplay favors as they have been killing him since he got drafted. Said it a few times on here a while back if he is utilize properly its an easy 17 n 10 night and he will be the beast that he is. when he plays for turkey he straight balled out against good nba players like dirtk etc.
i was waiting for you to leave a comment too omar lmao at the haters
@disco, for sure! This revisionist history is funny stuff. In the rewriting of history, Corbin’s coaching got the Jazz into the playoffs,….really?! This is the coach that inserted J Howard into starting line up against Spurs, after Jazz streaked into playoffs?! This is the same coach that benched Tinsley for Watson, after Tinsley was tearing it up?! This is the same guy that inserted CJ into starting line up against Hawks when Jazz were on a winning streak?! Injuries were what put Jazz in position, and the hard working talented players (Hayward played fantastic) into playoffs. If Jazz didnt have injuries, Jazz lineup vs. Spurs: Al, Millsap, Howard, Bell (had he kept quiet), Harris with Favors getting like 20 minutes Kanter like 8 minutes, and CJ and Watson taking the backcourt minutes and some backup SF minutes. Corbin still needs to prove he made next step.
@pintz11, Hahaha. I remember people mocking me and others cuz we kept pointing to the game Kanter had against Bynum in LA!! By the way Al shot 29% against Bynum Gasol, and Kanter schooled him with virtually no playing time most of season. Bynum couldnt do anything against Kanter! Hahaha! Kanters highest scoring games last year came against Lakers, Heat, Clippers, Portland, whereas Al worst games came against those teams. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. Cant wait til Burks slams the haters! Haha. I just hope Corbin realizes the talent Jazz have.
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