2021-22 regular season Utah Jazz news, notes and game coverage

[QUOTE=El Kabong;14488200]Team should probably thank Gobert for covering some very lackluster defensive efforts against the Cavs.[/QUOTE]

the media seems to have noticed for a change anyway

[url]https://kslsports.com/474253/utah-jazz-forward-rudy-gay-reaches-17000-career-points/[/url]

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[url]https://kslsports.com/474236/donovan-mitchell-becomes-fourth-fastest-active-player-to-score-7000-points/[/url]

[QUOTE]The fifth-year guard is the third-fastest Jazzman to reach the mark. Only Adrian Dantley and Pete Maravich scored 7,000 points in fewer games.

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greatest player in franchise history! :lol

[url]https://thejnotes.com/2021/12/06/two-studs-one-dud-utah-jazz-win-cavs/4/[/url]

[QUOTE]All told, Clarkson is now shooting 37% from the field and 29.4% from downtown on 8.9 attempts per game. That’s gruesome. We’ll maintain a semblance of hope that he can turn it around, but 23 games into the 2021-22 season, it’s getting increasingly hard to call this a slump.

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throw in the last 4 months of last year when he sucked too :cry:

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50303259/that-was-ricky-right-there-rubio-doing-same-thing-in-cleveland-he-did-for-jazz[/url]

[QUOTE]Mitchell knows a thing or two about how helpful that can be. It's been four years now since Mitchell was the young guard with loads of talent and was handed the keys to the Jazz's offense. There were a lot of reasons why Mitchell succeeded: Mitchell had talent, Quin Snyder and the Jazz system; but one of the biggest reasons was the presence of Rubio.

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and yet they sucked without Gobert

[QUOTE]Mitchell, Devin Booker, Anthony Edwards and now Garland have all taken big steps just by being around Rubio.

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lottery picks getting better. Thanks Rick! :facepalm

[QUOTE]It's a pretty similar situation in Cleveland. The upstart Cavs have surprised just about everyone with how they've begun the season. Cleveland was expected to be a surefire lottery team, but at 13-11 they are smack in the middle of the playoff battle.

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not similar. Jazz still had their best player and had been a playoff team

[url]https://saltcityhoops.com/sc7-stars-being-stars-smallball/[/url]

[QUOTE]Both Gobert and Mitchell rank in the top 10 for Dunksandthrees.com’s [URL="https://dunksandthrees.com/epm"]Estimated Plus-Minus metric[/URL]. Mike Conley ranks 13th, the product of his lights-out shooting, disciplined facilitation, and overall veteran savvy. It’s a huge luxury to have a player of Conley’s caliber as their third best player.

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debatable who's their 2nd best

[QUOTE] [URL="https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/basketball/first-team/news/2399021/dante-exum-reforc-per-al-perimetre"]Barça and the player Dante Exum have reached agreement for the Australian guard to join on a short-term contract until February 28[/URL].

– via [URL="https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/basketball/first-team/news/2399021/dante-exum-reforc-per-al-perimetre"]FC Barcelona[/URL]


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good idea. See if he can stay healthy for a couple months first

[QUOTE] [URL="https://theathletic.com/3003299/2021/12/07/pacers-potentially-move-to-rebuild-receptive-to-trade-talks-on-caris-levert-domantas-sabonis-myles-turner-sources/"]Multiple sources said that the Pacers are receptive in trade dialogue with rival teams centered on potentially moving guard Caris LeVert and either two-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis or center Myles Turner.[/URL] All three players have frequently garnered significant interest from rival teams. Pacers officials have received frequent calls on both of their big men over the past several seasons, but new head coach Rick Carlisle wanted an opportunity to spend time with Sabonis and Turner and grow with the roster.

– via [URL="https://theathletic.com/3003299/2021/12/07/pacers-potentially-move-to-rebuild-receptive-to-trade-talks-on-caris-levert-domantas-sabonis-myles-turner-sources/"]Shams Charania, Bob Kravitz, Shams Charania and Bob Kravitz @ The Athletic[/URL]

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Sabonis would be nice. So would Turner for that matter

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/the-downbeat-latest-jazz-news/2021/12/7/22822679/the-utah-jazz-death-lineup-is-looking-as-scary-as-ever[/url]

[QUOTE]In the 2019-20 NBA season, Quin Snyder began experimenting with the [URL="https://www.slcdunk.com"]Utah Jazz[/URL] bench lineups. He decided to stagger minutes between his two starting guards, Mike Conley and Donovan Mitchell. This decision resulted in a lineup featuring two starters in Conley and Joe Ingles against opposing benches. Joined by bench scorer Jordan Clarkson and two young and unproven front-court players, Georges Niang and Tony Bradley, this lineup dominated other second units. That was the beginning of Utah’s death lineup.

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until Bradley became the reason for all their problems! :facepalm

[QUOTE]Quin Snyder has used this lineup more and more every year, and for a good reason. The strength of the Utah Jazz is in its depth. Some teams are built around a central superstar. Some have a big three. While the Jazz have three All-Stars, their true strength is having the best top to bottom 9-man rotation in the NBA.

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Gobert

[QUOTE]Most teams will play a second unit comprised of four or five bench players. The Utah Jazz primary bench lineup includes two starters, both of which are All-Stars, then adds the reigning Sixth Man of the Year, and his runner-up, and a veteran who used to be a star and is now one of the best floor-spacing power forwards in the league. As an opposing defense, how do you expect to guard a Mike Conley/Rudy Gobert pick & roll with Jordan Clarkson, Joe Ingles, and Rudy Gay spotting up on the three-point line? That unit is currently scoring 126.3 points per 100 possessions, good for the 93rd percentile. That’s hard to stop.

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leave Clarkson open for starters

T'Wolves got curb stomped and all Beverly and Edwards can do is talk smack about Gobert being overrated.

[QUOTE=El Kabong;14490289]T'Wolves got curb stomped and all Beverly and Edwards can do is talk smack about Gobert being overrated.[/QUOTE]

shut them down in the 2nd half :applause:

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/12/8/22820537/utah-jazz-mailbag-do-jazz-have-more-moves-to-make-this-season-rudy-gay-hassan-whiteside-joe-ingles[/url]

[QUOTE]The Jazz also need to decide what to do with [URL="https://www.deseret.com/2021/9/24/22690116/utah-jazz-insiders-newsletter-does-miye-oni-have-place-on-this-team"]Miye Oni[/URL], who has pretty much fallen out of the rotation, at no fault of his own. The Jazz’s depth chart is just a little more robust this season and that makes Oni the odd man out. The Jazz need to decide by Jan. 7 whether they want to guarantee Oni’s contract for the rest of the season, and if they don’t, that would leave the Jazz with two roster spots to fill (the already-open roster spot and the one that would be left by Oni).

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hard to imagine them keeping him. I think he's a great guy to have at the end of the bench but too much money involved and roster flexibility is important especially since Forrest might need a roster spot. Be great if they could resign Oni to a two way to replace Forrest but he will have interest elsewhere. Sad that Hughes is wasting a spot for the 2nd straight year. Ideally him and Clarkson get dealt but probably won't

[QUOTE]It’s what happens after an offensive board that the Jazz need to focus on. The Jazz are 10th worst in the league in opponent second-chance points with 13.3 per game through the first 23 games, that’s where the concern should be. If a team gets an offensive board against the Jazz, they need to be in better position to defend that second possession.

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the problem with that it many of those probably come because their center is defending and you're asking other to rebound who don't. Would be nice to have a starting 4!

[QUOTE][URL="https://www.deseret.com/2021/10/27/22748693/eric-paschall-and-hassan-whiteside-have-been-welcome-additions-to-utah-jazz-through-three-games"]Eric Paschall[/URL] would get more playing time on a team that did not have Rudy Gay ahead of him in the rotation. It might seem harsh, but that’s just the way it is.

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he'd get more playing time on a team without COTY living but mostly dying with Clarkson

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/the-downbeat-latest-jazz-news/2021/12/9/22825625/donovan-mitchell-hottest-player-in-nba-utah-jazz-player-of-the-week[/url]

[QUOTE]December is a great time to start finding your groove as an NBA player. All-Star voting will start in the next little bit, and it would be a surprise if Donovan Mitchell isn’t named to his third straight All-Star game. Especially if the Jazz keep winning, he simply can’t be denied.

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he's made it twice without showing up until January so why not?

[QUOTE]Where will Mitchell end up this season? Can he beat his career high 26.4 ppg set last year? If he keeps up his recent play, he should shatter it. Most importantly for Donovan, he needs to stay strong and healthy for the playoffs. We saw what we could do in the playoffs last season, and even on a hobbled ankle he was unstoppable. Healthy Donovan in the playoffs, playing like this??? Sign. Me. Up.

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will he play D and pass?

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/the-downbeat-latest-jazz-news/2021/12/8/22822976/should-utah-jazz-trade-for-domantas-sabonis[/url]

[QUOTE]To put it briefly (my rough draft spent five paragraphs and 200-plus words to say this), Turner and LeVert wouldn’t fit on account of there either being no room or them not adding new skills that would change the Jazz for the better. Utah simply isn’t in need of another rim-protector or a slasher with limited defensive prowess.

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Turner fits. LaVert would certainly be better than Clarkson

[QUOTE] Tim MacMahon on Christian Wood: [URL="https://open.spotify.com/show/2mZHt3zBxyIuc0PYLdDDkr"]The sense that I get is by no means are the Rockets looking to move him. Certainly there’s potential for him to be in his prime when the young guys grow up, and maybe the Rockets are ready to be competitive again. But they’re willing to listen[/URL] and I think that you know, aside from Jalen Green, the Rockets should be willing to listen to every single guy on the roster.

– via [URL="https://open.spotify.com/show/2mZHt3zBxyIuc0PYLdDDkr"]Spotify[/URL]


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he'd fit