2020-21 Regular season- The tax team

[QUOTE]Mike Conley subbed out of the game during a timeout at the 6:58 mark of the third and later headed to the locker room. The Jazz announced during the fourth quarter that Conley would not return because of tightness in his right hamstring. There was no immediate update after the game as to the severity of Conley’s hamstring issue or his availability for Sunday’s game on the road against the Indiana Pacers. [URL="https://www.deseret.com/sports/2021/2/5/22268185/mike-conley-leaves-utah-jazz-win-over-charlotte-hornets-with-hamstring-injury-nba"]“We’ll have to wait to get an assessment on where he is from our health and performance staff,” Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said[/URL].
– via [URL="https://www.deseret.com/sports/2021/2/5/22268185/mike-conley-leaves-utah-jazz-win-over-charlotte-hornets-with-hamstring-injury-nba"]Sarah Todd @ deseret.com[/URL]



Last season during Conley’s absence, the Jazz went on a 10-game win streak, and Conley has admitted time and time again that he struggled through most of the 2019-20 campaign. This season however, Conley has been playing some of the best basketball of his career and has been a difference-maker for the Jazz. [URL="https://www.deseret.com/sports/2021/2/5/22268185/mike-conley-leaves-utah-jazz-win-over-charlotte-hornets-with-hamstring-injury-nba"]“Mike just has a way of being out there and kind of calming stuff,” Donovan Mitchell said of his teammate after the game on Friday. “We definitely missed that presence on the offensive end, the offensive mind that he has.[/URL] That was definitely one thing we definitely missed coming down the stretch, just to kind of settle this down in certain instances.”
– via [URL="https://www.deseret.com/sports/2021/2/5/22268185/mike-conley-leaves-utah-jazz-win-over-charlotte-hornets-with-hamstring-injury-nba"]Sarah Todd @ deseret.com[/URL]



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miss him even more defensively as we saw tonite

[URL]https://kslsports.com/452751/jazz-beat-charlotte-but-lose-conley-with-hamstring-injury/[/URL]

[QUOTE]While the majority of the credit belongs to Jazz shooters, eight of whom hit three-pointers, it’s also a testament to Dennis Lindsey, Quin Snyder, and Rudy Gobert.
In April of 2019, after the Jazz had been eliminated by the Rockets for the second straight season, Lindsey, the Jazz vice president of basketball operations said the Jazz would be looking for snipers at any position to put on the floor.
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Yeah let's give them credit 6 years later. We saw at the end of Hayward's last year putting shooters around Rudy was the way to go and they should have known earlier than that.. So thanks :facepalm

[QUOTE]Simply put, the Jazz offense is putting teams in a Catch-22 every night they suit up, and it’s why they’ve got the NBA’s best record.


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no the big reason is the improved D which sucked this game and might continue to without Conley. The offense was great last year

[QUOTE]At this point, the Jazz would be wise to give Conley all the time he needs to rehab from the injury, but his absence was apparent in the victory.


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be wise but could cost them a top 3 seed and they really need #1 to avoid LAL

[QUOTE]Conley isn’t the Jazz best player, that honor belongs to either Mitchell or Gobert, but right now he’s as valuable, if not more so than anyone else on the floor and it lends credence to his plus-minus stats leading the league.


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He has been though and Mitchell isn't in the running

[QUOTE]The good news for the Jazz is they have the best guard lineup in the NBA and played well last season during the 18 games without him. The team went 15-3 with Mitchell running the point guard position, and the Jazz have yet to lose when one of their guards, be it Mitchell or Joe Ingles has missed a game


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weak schedule during that time I believe. Tough coming up

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50102452/jazz-coach-quin-snyder-happy-to-see-gordon-hayward-playing-like-hayward-again[/url]

[QUOTE]"They're a phenomenal team — they move the ball well, get open shots, and they knock them down," Hayward said.


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like your last year. Amazing that it took them so long to get back to it again

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50101709/even-with-some-worry-over-a-potential-all-star-game-rudy-gobert-says-hed-love-to-be-part-of-it[/url]

[QUOTE]But with Utah currently having the best record in the league, Mitchell and Gobert both seem like locks to repeat as All-Stars this season. It also wouldn't be too surprising to see Conley, who has long been considered one of the better league guards in the NBA, get a strong push to make his first All-Star team.


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the fact that Mitchell is a lock tells you what a farce it is

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50102388/another-record-jazz-top-their-3-point-record-again-in-win-over-hornets[/url]

[QUOTE]Charlotte had a 12-point lead in the first quarter and even looked to frustrate the Utah Jazz with a smaller lineup and constant switching on pick-and-roll.

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might be the first team smaller than them

[QUOTE]One of those things: switch on picks. The Hornets started a smaller lineup in hopes to use their speed to guard along the perimeter in hopes of sticking with Utah's shooters. This type of defense has been the Jazz's Achilles' heel in the past.


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I'd say they did it because they figured they could get away with it because the Jazz play so small

[QUOTE]The Jazz didn't have any immediate information on the severity of the hamstring injury. The bad news: It was a hamstring issue that caused Conley to miss a significant portion of last season. The semi-good news: That was his left hamstring. The real good news: Utah's 3-point prowess can probably make up for some missed games.


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I'm not sure it being a different hamstring is necessarily good news

[url]https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2021/02/06/triple-team-jazz-set/[/url]

[QUOTE]Bojan Bogdanovic is also adept in the flip side of mismatches, using his bigger body to take advantage of smaller guards in the post.



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he's pretty awful in the post

[QUOTE]I keep wishing that I could share this revelation with Jazz coaches of the past. Jerry Sloan already had terrific offenses, but man, what if he had John Stockton and Jeff Hornacek, two of the great shooters of that era, take more threes?


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yeah right. Jerry would hat what they are doing

[QUOTE]A decade later, Kyle Korver had the highest percentage 3-point season of all time, making 53% of his threes that year. So naturally, the Jazz played him only 21 minutes per game in the playoffs that year. Then they let him go to the Chicago Bulls in the offseason. Why, Kevin O’Connor?! You had such a good thing.



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Because Jerry loved the guy way too much

[QUOTE]And Ty Corbin... in retrospect, he had some really quality shooters on those rosters. Mo Williams, Randy Foye, Marvin Williams, Gordon Hayward, Raja Bell, all absolutely have gravity on the floor from deep. So the Jazz took the 29th most threes in the league and just pounded the ball to Al Jefferson for goofy push shots over and over again in some of the most boring basketball the NBA has ever seen.



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that was more on O'Conner for bringing i a black hole when they already had Millsap

[QUOTE]Paul Millsap should be the most mad: he worked on the 3-point shot in practice over and over, had this coming out party where his [URL="https://www.slcdunk.com/2012/9/26/3412850/comeback-day-jazz-paul-millsaps-miracle-in-miami"]incredible 3-point shooting[/URL] won them the game in one of the most unlikely regular season comebacks in NBA history, and Corbin still had him keep the three under wraps for the rest of his Jazz career. Then as soon as he goes to Atlanta — where Quin Snyder was Millsap’s favored assistant — he immediately expands his game, takes six times more threes per game, and becomes an All-Star.



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I'm the most mad because they let their best player go to tank. Imagine him and Rudy together :banghead:

[QUOTE]Ah, what could have been. Still, at least the Jazz had the revelatory moment at some point. Right now, they’re a joy to watch.



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you forgot the big one. Rudy putting up over 17 a game with shooters around him. They let Hill go and traded for Ricky and put Hood and Favors back in the starting lineup :rant

[QUOTE]By the way, Conley absolutely should be an All-Star this year, given the outsized nature of his impact on the league’s leading team. Whether or not he will be one will be determined by this length of this injury, the voting of the Western Conference’s coaches, and perhaps the decision of NBA commissioner Adam Silver if there’s a Western Conference injury in the weeks leading up to the game.


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and less deserving teammates making it instead[h=2][/h]

[url]https://www.deseret.com/sports/2021/2/5/22268184/instant-analysis-jazz-break-franchise-record-for-threes-made-in-win-over-charlotte-hornets-nba[/url]

[QUOTE]Conley leaving with an injury is concerning, not just because injuries are horrible but because of the way the Jazz have handled not having him on the floor. It seems to have been a trend this season that they don’t really react well when he’s taken out in an abnormal way, whether it’s foul trouble or injury, etc.

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but Mitchell is their best player!

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2021/2/5/22267580/utah-jazz-hold-off-the-charlotte-hornets-3rd-win-in-a-row-game-recap-lamelo-ball-donovan-mitchell[/url]

[QUOTE]This was a game, the back end of a back to back on the road, that the Jazz might have faltered last season. But this year, with their system that is dominating so many teams, the Jazz are becoming immune to things like a back to back. The personel on the floor are all playing at a very high level and shooting lights out. Tonight was not different.


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can't see them being immune to no Mike

[QUOTE]This Hornets team has the makings of something. Maybe they can make a trade somehow to get Bradley Beal? Maybe they can get a third piece in free agency to compliment Hayward and Ball? Either way they are going to be fun for the foreseeable future.


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they have money for a max player next year so they could make some noise

[QUOTE]This is now 5 monster games for Bogdanovic in a row. If he can keep this up it can help the Jazz overcome games where they’re missing Conley. Conley has been incredible this year, and so Bogdanovic alone doesn’t make up for it, but if he can shoot like this, it will cerrtainly help them stay at the top of the league record-wise.


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he can't relace Conley. Not sure the Jazz can replace what Bojan gives up at the other end

[QUOTE][h=4]Yup. Gotta pump the stars[/h]

Posted by [URL="https://www.sbnation.com/users/SKMike"]SKMike[/URL] on [URL="https://www.slcdunk.com/2021/2/5/22267580/utah-jazz-hold-off-the-charlotte-hornets-3rd-win-in-a-row-game-recap-lamelo-ball-donovan-mitchell#536247940"]Feb 6, 2021 | 3:04 AM[/URL]
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Jazz fans know better than anyone and their best player Mitchell! :roll:

[QUOTE]We could’ve been 20-3 right now. I know, first world problems but with this tough stretch coming up it would’ve been nicer to have a cushion on the 1 seed.

Posted by [URL="https://www.sbnation.com/users/TheNextGM"]TheNextGM[/URL] on [URL="https://www.slcdunk.com/2021/2/5/22267580/utah-jazz-hold-off-the-charlotte-hornets-3rd-win-in-a-row-game-recap-lamelo-ball-donovan-mitchell#536247955"]Feb 6, 2021 | 3:07 AM[/URL]
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Could have been but aren't

[QUOTE]But the schedule from now on is just too tough – pacers, celtics, heat, bucks, sixers, clippers twice – and we have no Conley.
I don’t know how long hamstring issue takes but doesn’t it takes at least a weak?

Posted by [URL="https://www.sbnation.com/users/CJ%20Livinghousen"]CJ Livinghousen[/URL] on [URL="https://www.slcdunk.com/2021/2/5/22267580/utah-jazz-hold-off-the-charlotte-hornets-3rd-win-in-a-row-game-recap-lamelo-ball-donovan-mitchell#536248113"]Feb 6, 2021 | 3:38 AM[/URL]
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could get ugly in a hurry

[url]https://sircharlesincharge.com/2021/02/04/nba-trade-rumors-ideal-fits-pj-tucker-heat/5/[/url]

[QUOTE]They could use some depth in the frontcourt, however, and adding P.J. Tucker would successfully accomplish that goal. Plus, he’d be an ideal fit next to Rudy Gobert in the starting lineup, if the Jazz would choose to acquire him, and could still provide the floor-spacing that the team needs for Donovan Mitchell and Mike Conley to operate.


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He's not ideal but certainly would give more options defensively. Bojan needs to go though

J. Michael Falgoust: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Turner on matchup w/Gobert on Sun: “I wouldn’t necessarily (say) that I circle it. … We’re on a 2-game losing streak.[/URL] This is an important game tomorrow. If I’m looking at an individual accolade (like DPOY), I feel like I’m doing my team a disservice.” #PacersJazz
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/ThisIsJMichael"]Twitter ThisIsJMichael[/URL]

Andy Larsen: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Mike Conley is out for tomorrow morning’s game vs. the Pacers due to hamstring tightness[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/andyblarsen"]Twitter andyblarsen[/URL]



[IMG]https://*********.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2021/01/i_82_66_b9_trent-forrest.png?w=190[/IMG]Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Utah Jazz announce that two-way player Trent Forrest has been transferred from the SLC Stars to the Jazz.[/URL] Which creates questions about Mike Conley’s as-yet-unknown status.
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]

[url]https://www.deseret.com/sports/2021/2/6/22269211/mike-conley-dealing-with-hamstring-tightness-will-not-play-for-utah-jazz-against-indiana-pacers[/url]

[QUOTE]Though there has been no indication from the Jazz that Conley will miss significant time, the Jazz have gone through the trouble of bringing Forrest back from Orlando in light of the Conley’s injury.


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no indication other than all the games he missed a year ago

[QUOTE]Since daily COVID-19 testing has been ongoing within the G League, Forrest will not have to quarantine for any extra time before joining the Jazz and will be available to play on Sunday when the Jazz are in Indiana.


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never knew he'd been called down. He's way down the line for actually playing anyway

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2021/2/7/22270825/utah-jazz-road-trip-continues-to-indiana-pacers-for-a-sunday-morning-battle-game-preview[/url]

[QUOTE]The weight of Conley’s absence will fall primarily on the shoulders of Donovan Mitchell. The Jazz will rely on him to be able to control the offense as a point guard. Joe Ingles will also take a lot of the ball handling duty. If those two have strong floor games, Utah should be able to compensate for the loss of Mike Conley, but that won’t be an easy thing to do. The way the team handles the absence of Conley will be very telling, and will likely determine the outcome of this game.


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I'd be more worried about D as we saw last game

[QUOTE]Plus, I’m curious if Quin will play Rudy and DFavs together against the Pacers.

Posted by [URL="https://www.sbnation.com/users/CJ%20Livinghousen"]CJ Livinghousen[/URL] on [URL="https://www.slcdunk.com/2021/2/7/22270825/utah-jazz-road-trip-continues-to-indiana-pacers-for-a-sunday-morning-battle-game-preview#536279539"]Feb 7, 2021 | 1:57 AM[/URL]
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let's hope not. Morgan should relpace Conley in the rotation but I'm sure Oni will

David Locke: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Jordan Clarkson has hit 20 of his last 41 on off the bounce three point shots[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/DLocke09"]Twitter DLocke09[/URL]



Andy Larsen: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Jordan Clarkson shooting 40% on pullup threes this year… has hit a 3 in 50 consecutive games… legitimately one of the best shooters in the NBA right now[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/andyblarsen"]Twitter andyblarsen[/URL]

Eric Walden: Donovan Mitchell, on his triple-double watch: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]“By the time I realized it, we were up 7. Brought to my attention in a timeout, and I said, ‘We can’t worry about that, we can’t lose this.’ I told Brogdon to shoot it at the end, but that was really the only time I was hunting it.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]