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

[url]https://kslsports.com/476391/jazz-youngsters-show-promise-in-loss-to-raptors/[/url]

[QUOTE]Hughes had the best game of any Jazz player, and not just because of his scoring. Most players when given the opportunity can get baskets in the NBA, but it was Hughes’s quick release, rebounding, and playmaking that could make him a rotation player in the NBA.

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it could but hard to imagine

[QUOTE]As long as O’Neale is on the Jazz it might be difficult to find minutes on the floor, but this game was a strong testament to his development in the team’s system and a player who might have a future with the team.

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Hughes at PF? :roll:

[QUOTE]Having played three years at Baylor for a high-level program alongside several other pros, Butler’s decision-making is behind where it should be and didn’t inspire a ton of confidence if he had to get significant minutes at some point this season.

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where should it be? He's a 20 year old 2nd rounder who's played little with the Jazz or Stars

[QUOTE]With the Jazz playing a basic zone defense for most of the game it’s difficult to get a grasp on how his defense looked in the team’s scheme, but Quin Snyder can always use more shooters and the veteran should be able to fill that role.

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Always nice to see COTY try something different. Too bad he won't do it when he's not desperate

[QUOTE]It was only one game, but House Jr. showed exactly what the Jazz need from a deep bench veteran.

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what they need from a rotation player but like Ersan last year I doubt he'll play

[QUOTE]In a game like this so with few experienced players, Forrest needed to abandon his pass first, second, and third mentality and look to help his team by scoring. He was unwilling to do it and it hurt the offense.

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can't shoot

[QUOTE]Over the last two games, the second-year center has a combined seven points and four rebounds in 30 minutes. That’s difficult to do at nearly seven feet tall with elite size and leaping ability.

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only 3 less boards than Whiteside

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2022/1/7/22870929/analysis-missing-8-players-jazz-lose-but-put-up-strong-fight-against-raptors[/url]

[QUOTE]This was by far Whiteside’s worst game in a Jazz uniform. He looked disinterested on the defensive end early on and things didn’t get better. He looked like he was just going through the motions. There’s not really a great excuse for this. The Jazz would not have played Whiteside if he was still feeling the effects of his recent concussion. If he was recovered but still not feeling great he would have had to fight hard to play in this game and why would he fight to play in a game where he wasn’t going to try. If he was feeling fine and just not playing well, that’s just an indictment of his attitude. The Jazz would have had a lot more of a chance to win this game if he would have put in more effort.

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that's Whiteside. That's why he's on a minimum deal

Ryan Miller: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Royce O’Neale, Rudy Gay, Bojan Bogdanovic and Donovan Mitchell will all play tonight[/URL].
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James Boyd: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Malcolm Brogdon is OUT tonight due to a sore right Achilles. Chris Duarte and Jeremy Lamb are available,[/URL] per Rick Carlisle. #Pacers
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[url]https://kslsports.com/476453/career-highs-lead-pacers-over-gobert-less-jazz/[/url]

[QUOTE]The Jazz defense is designed to funnel players to the middle of the floor and into Gobert whose incredible length makes it extremely difficult to score in the paint.

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it's more than length. Whiteside and Udoka are almost as long as was Favors

[QUOTE]While the Jazz brought in Hassan Whiteside to mirror Gobert’s length when he’s off the floor, his lack of mobility and up and down effort don’t allow him to have the same impact as the three-time defensive player of the year.

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and now it's not just length

[QUOTE]MacMahon then explained the great lengths the Jazz have gone to keep their superstar guard happy.

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yeah and it cost them in the playoffs

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2022/1/8/22872735/instant-analysis-without-rudy-gobert-jazzs-defense-struggles-mightily-in-loss-to-pacers[/url]

[QUOTE]Center Pelle, with the Jazz on a 10-day hardship deal, gave so much effort on Saturday that it would have felt wrong not to mention it. He had some trouble finishing at the rim, but I think that feels natural for some nerves to be at play there. On the defensive end though he was tough and even when he wasn’t perfect and made mistakes, he didn’t give up.

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I liked him enough that I could see packaging Whiteside with Clarkson and Hughes for the starting 4 they need!

[QUOTE]Domantas Sabonis had a career-high 42 points on Saturday. Good for him, and he’s a great player who is often underrated in my opinion. But from the Jazz’s perspective, you can’t let a guy have a career night on you just because you’re missing someone. Yeah, Gobert is a Hall of Fame-level defender, but the Jazz should be able to put up a little more resistance, which brings me to the worst part of the evening.[/QUOTE]

they should but never have. I know you haven't been on the beat long but this is the same old story. Crappy team without Gobert despite the so called greatness of Mitchell, COTY, etc

[QUOTE]The Hassan Whiteside minutes on Saturday were really, really bad. That’s consecutive games of being disappointed in what Whiteside has brought to the table as he’s started in place of Gobert. I have a few thoughts on this. First, I know that no one, including Whiteside, is ever going to look great when compared with Gobert, who is just so impactful that it’s impossible to match his abilities. I’m not expecting Whiteside to be Gobert. With that in mind, here’s what I think is going on: I think that when Gobert is playing, it’s a lot easier for Whiteside to really try and care. It’s easy because he has the example ahead of him of what he needs to do from one matchup to the next, because he only has to do it in smaller stints and against usually lesser talent as the reserve center, because if he doesn’t put up a big effort when Gobert plays, then he’ll look really bad by comparison. When Gobert is not ahead of him, the opposite is true across the board. We were all warned that this is the Whiteside that could be waiting for the Jazz, and here it is. Whiteside let down Mitchell, Conley and everyone else who was giving a lot of effort. He let guys walk right past him, didn’t fight for position or rebounds and only looked as if he cared when he was dunking the ball. He ended up making Pelle look like the better center. If he strings together too many of these games, I wouldn’t blame the Jazz for looking elsewhere.

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as I've said all year even when he played well he gave little effort. He should be the best player on the floor and isn't like Jeff Green

[QUOTE] Shams Charania: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]The Utah Jazz plan to sign forward James Ennis to a 10-day contract,[/URL] sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium . Ennis has spent time with the Nets and Clippers on 10-days this season.

– via [URL="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania"]Twitter ShamsCharania[/URL]


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another good pickup. Get rid of Clarkson, Hughes and Whiteside!

[QUOTE] Adrian Wojnarowski: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]The Jazz plan to sign guard Denzel Valentine, pending his pass of Covid protocols, sources tell ESPN. Valentine played 22 games with the Cavaliers this season[/URL].

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Adrian Wojnarowski: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]The Utah Jazz are no longer planning to sign James Ennis on a 10-day contract and continue to scour the marketplace for a free agent wing player,[/URL] sources tell ESPN.
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getting some interesting names. Hopefully someone replaces Clarkson!

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50325029/with-covid-19-spreading-through-team-jazz-reportedly-sign-denzel-valentine[/url]

[QUOTE]On Sunday, Rudy Gay and Elijah Hughes both entered the league's health and safety protocols after testing positive for COVID-19, joining Rudy Gobert and Joe Ingles as Jazz players currently in the protocols. Ingles has been in the protocols since Tuesday; Gobert, meanwhile, tested positive on Thursday. The virus has fully hit the Jazz with three assistant coaches — Alex Jensen, Vince Legarza, and Sergi Oliva — also testing positive.

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3 rotation players. Time for best player in franchise history to prove himself

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2022/1/9/22875809/utah-jazz-sign-denzel-valentine[/url]

[QUOTE]The Jazz obviously then pivoted to another target and signed Denzel Valentine. What’s interesting is this isn’t a 10-day contract.

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maybe he would only sign if it was guaranteed for the year? House and Pelle both looked good and they obviously liked Ennis as well so I'm not sure I like them committing to anyone though I think he could be a good fit

[QUOTE]The terms of the deal haven’t been released but it will likely be for the remainder of the season. It’s not very likely that Valentine will get many minutes. Although he might in the next few days as the Jazz have a growing number of players in covid protocols.

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I'd say Forrest's minutes are up for grabs and Clarkson's should be

[QUOTE]Other sources say it's just a 10-day contract, nothing to worry about.


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[QUOTE]Well, his 6'10" wingspan is decent length


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yep

[url]https://thejnotes.com/2022/01/10/utah-jazz-rudy-gobert-injury/[/url]

[QUOTE]Regardless, he’s [URL="https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/basketball/news/jazzs-rudy-gobert-enters-health-and-safety-protocols/"]currently suffering from a shoulder injury[/URL] that may keep him out of the rotation for the foreseeable future.

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not sure the shoulder would have kept him out

[QUOTE]A lower back strain kept Gobert out of 13 contests in the 2019-20 season.

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he missed 4 games that year. Trump virus took the rest :facepalm

[QUOTE]During the 2017-18 season, Gobert suffered the most significant injury of his career to date. A knee contusion cost the 3x Defensive Player of the Year 26 games during that season.

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He tweeked knees 4 times. 3 kept him out about a month. The other was in the playoffs or else he probably would have missed a month but only missed a game. Wasn't himself though

If you're going to do an article like this at least get it right. :facepalm

[url]https://thejnotes.com/2022/01/09/utah-jazz-rudy-gobert-take/[/url]

[QUOTE]Hassan Whiteside is [URL="https://thejnotes.com/2021/11/20/utah-jazz-regrading-hassan-whiteside/"]one of the best backup bigs in the NBA,[/URL] but he appeared ill-equipped to handle Sabonis last night. The star big man had his way with the Jazz, scoring with an array of head fakes on the low block, and frequently in the pick-and-roll.

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is he though?

[url]https://sircharlesincharge.com/2022/01/10/nba-trade-rumors-jazz-joe-ingles-deadline/[/url]

Clarkson, Hughes and Whiteside

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50325757/jazz-surrender-22-point-lead-in-shocking-loss-to-detroit[/url]

[QUOTE]It shouldn't have mattered that the Utah Jazz were without Rudy Gobert, Rudy Gay and Joe Ingles. It shouldn't have mattered that it was the last game of a COVID-stricken five-game road trip. The Jazz were up by 22 points on one of the worst teams in the league — and they lost.

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the problem is that the Jazz have always been one of the worst teams in the league minus Gobert

[QUOTE]Mitchell then paused and with a new frustrated tone, finished: "We got to guard, man. We got to just guard the ball. They really aint much else to it."

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we or you?

[url]https://kslsports.com/476624/jazz-defense-exposed-in-collapse-to-pistons/[/url]

[QUOTE]O’Neale is a talented defender, but the Jazz are asking far too much of the undrafted forward if they want to be a championship contender.

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you forgot the part about asking him to be their starting 4 :facepalm

[QUOTE]While that remarkable stretch of health for Gobert has made the Jazz one of the best team’s during the regular season over the last three years, it may have hindered the ability of the team to truly diagnose the defensive flaws that exist on the team’s roster.

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it shouldn't have. They've always sucked without him on the floor

[QUOTE]“In the Indiana game, when you see a guy like Keifer Sykes picking up full court, you see players that are really enthusiastic and appreciate the opportunity,” Snyder said.

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and despite that you've refused to play guys at the end of your bench under any circumstances unless forced to

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2022/1/10/22876434/video-breakdown-utah-jazz-second-half-defense-against-detroit-pistons-wasnt-just-bad-it-was-baffling[/url]

[QUOTE]It’s not like the Jazz don’t have the ability to defend — they held the Pistons to 48 points in the first half. But then, on the opening possession of the second half, this happens. Donovan Mitchell is directing traffic, or warning about a drive by Cunningham, but he’s so concerned with what’s going on over on that side that he leaves his own man open in the corner and is too late on the close out.

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they held a bad team to 48. Doesn't mean they have the ability to defend

[QUOTE]In this last video, Whiteside gives so very little effort that I’m not even sure what to think. Whiteside’s lack of effort in finishing out the play leads to a super easy second-chance 3 for Cory Joseph.

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that's Whitesdie. Even when everyone was gaga over him earlier in the year I saw little effort