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[QUOTE]These fouls also took away some of Favors’ aggressiveness on both ends of the court, as evidenced by his six-point, three-rebound outing.[/QUOTE]
He shouldn't be in the game than. I missed most of the first 3 quarters but Kanter was having a big night. Why wasn't he playing more?
[QUOTE]What it means: Despite the loss, there was a bevy of positives. After the Clippers jumped out ahead, leading by as many as 15 points in the third quarter, the Jazz could have easily laid down. Instead they dug deep, battled back and even briefly took the lead. For the third-youngest team in the NBA, that is character-building. There is still a long ways to go defensively, but the offense was humming in the second half. There were certainly some Utah gaffes down the stretch that proved costly, but this squad is showing it is capable of sticking with its opponents.[/QUOTE]
We'll see. They might just match up well with the Clipps? Played them well in the pre-season too.
[QUOTE]Grading the performance: The first half defense was certainly concerning, but Utah showed tremendously scrappiness and heart in its comeback effort. While it was another case of too little, too late, the fortitude head coach Quin Snyder and company showed was an encouraging sign of progression.[/QUOTE]
Same as last year. Can they put together 4 quarters?
[QUOTE]Utah Jazz grade: B
The Clippers had the chance to blow things open in the third quarter, but allowed the Jazz back in the game, costing their core players some welcome rest. Their wily and entertaining play allowed them to escape with a victory. Look for this talented team to be one of the teams fighting for Western Conference supremacy come March and April.
Los Angeles Clippers grade: B
Three telling stats:
-- Paced by Paul’s 12, the Clippers tallied 28 assists as a team with only 10 turnovers. Along with his 13 points and 10 rebounds, the Clipper point guard recorded his first triple-double in five years.
-- Utah’s starting back court of Alec Burks and Trey Burke shot a combined 5 of 18 from the floor, finishing with 22 points, with the former accounting for most of the total — 16 points.[/QUOTE]
That's what makes Burks so good though. He was still able to put points up by getting to the line. Tre y did have 4 himself for a change.
[QUOTE]-- The two teams joined forces to hit 20-of-50 3-pointers. On Saturday, Utah and Phoenix managed to connect on just 14-of-57 shots from downtown.
Rematch: After their run-in during the preseason, Griffin and Trevor Booker spent plenty of time pitted against each other Monday. There was some chippy play between the pair, but nothing out of the ordinary. It is safe to say, however, that the two will not likely be exchanging holiday cards next month.
Up next: Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers are coming to EnergySolutions Arena Wednesday evening to face the Jazz. Oh, and LeBron Jams and Kevin Love will be with them, too. The revamped Cavs will make their lone appearance in Salt Lake City.
David Smith provides instant analysis for Deseret News' Utah Jazz coverage. He works for LDS Philanthropies and also writes for Salt City Hoops (ESPN's Jazz affiliate). He can be reached at [email]mechakucha1@gmail.com[/email] or on Twitter at davidjsmith1232.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]Retired Hall of Fame coach Jerry Sloan is attending Jazz practices under new coach Quin Snyder. "We try not to bug him, but he's there to support us and help me personally and our whole staff," said Snyder, adding that he wants to maintain the tradition within the franchise.[/QUOTE]
I imagine Jerry likes the passing anyway.
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Jazz: F Joe Ingles of Australia, who got cut at the end of the preseason by the Clippers, had no points in 10 minutes.[/QUOTE]
Looking like Luke Walton. High IQ passer.
[QUOTE]Clippers: F Glen Davis is likely to return Wednesday after missing the four games with a strained right groin.
UP NEXT
Jazz: Host LeBron James and the Cavaliers on Wednesday.
Clippers: Visit Golden State on Wednesday.
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[QUOTE]Utah is first in the league in total passes thrown per game so far, moving the ball over 20 more times nightly than any other team. [/QUOTE]
20 more times a night is a lot!
[QUOTE]Trey Burke and Gordon Hayward have appeared to be the team’s best at setting up dangerous shot opportunities, with their teammates converting at 48.0 and 52.8 percent respectively on attempts following passes from them (63.6 percent on 3-point attempts off passes from Hayward)2.[/QUOTE]
Might be because those two aren't shooting the ball when they pass it. :D
[QUOTE]Verdict: Mostly unsustainable, likely to change. The Jazz are clearly embracing ball movement overall, but still need to become better at converting raw volume into more effective and threatening passing. As the team becomes more comfortable with Snyder and the system, as well as with each other, expect improvements.[/QUOTE]
Don't have the shooters, scorers or finishers.
[QUOTE]Shooting:
Raw metrics paint the Jazz somewhat reasonably here. The team is 12th in field-goal percentage at 46.0 percent, and 10th for effective field-goal percentage3. They’ve shot just 30.4 percent from beyond the arc so far, but my readers likely don’t even need me to explain how 79 attempts is far too few to truly judge long-term.
New data released by SportVU on NBA.com this year gives us unprecedented levels of information to work with, and they’re especially useful here. In particular, we can now split up all Jazz shots by precise defender distance, among other filters. This can give us a great snapshot of several factors, from how well the team is spacing the floor (a higher percentage of field-goals with defenders far away is positive) to how “good” Utah’s shooters are in a vacuum (using uncontested shots as a barometer given their similar nature for all players).
The results here are mixed. The Jazz are generating a slightly higher percentage of “wide open” shots (no defender within six feet) this year, but their percentage of simply “open” shots (defender within 4-6 feet) has plummeted thus far, indicating spacing might not yet be at an optimal point. Their actual results from these distances are mixed also, as they’re shooting a worse percentage on “wide open” shots than last year’s group4 while connecting on a higher portion of their “open” shots5. Their combined figure on all 3’s taken with no defender closer than four feet is in line with last year’s, though roughly 35-percent marks here could certainly stand to improve – team data isn’t tabulated in a rank-able format on NBA.com just yet, but considering percentages here from elite shooting teams like the Spurs (40.4) or Mavericks (39.7) last year puts things in perspective somewhat.
Verdict: Almost completely unsustainable. There are simply too few total shots thus far in the year to draw any meaningful conclusions. How they’re spacing the floor through the lens of attempt percentages with defenders at various distances may be slightly more robust, but this area will also require far more data to be sure of anything.
Early Offense and Playing with Pace:
I forecasted a major leap for the Jazz in pace from last year as my first of 10 season predictions last week, and am fully on board with Snyder’s stated mission to push the tempo and look to attack early and through transition chances. I’m glad the season isn’t three games long, though, because at least as far as the raw pace stat goes, I’m off so far – the Jazz are just the 22nd-fastest team in the league.
This, however, is a great example of a metric that requires more context, especially so early on. The Jazz are certainly making an effort to get out in transition – only the Warriors are scoring a higher percentage of their points on the fast break so far in the young season. Pace is far more than just transition opportunities as well, and Utah is also clearly making an effort to initiate early offense even in halfcourt sets; they’ve taken 33.5 percent of their total shots with 15 or more seconds left on the shot clock, compared with 25.4 percent last year. Unfortunately, they’ve also upped their percentage of shots taken with under four seconds left on the shot clock, likely a key factor in keeping their overall pace figure down.[/QUOTE]
Improved d should help with transition.
[QUOTE]Verdict: Mostly sustainable, but still ripe for change. The team is clearly embracing early offense as a mantra, but so early on in a new system and still with so much youth on the court, they’ve predictably had their share of issues getting the pace moving. But Quin isn’t changing his tune anytime soon, and I remain confident in my preseason forecasting here.
Rebounding:
Another prediction I made was the Jazz rebounding over 51 percent of all available boards for the year, which would vault them up the charts compared with last season. And wouldn’t you know it, they’re making me look smart for a change! Utah has recovered 52.7 percent of all possible rebounds thus far, good for ninth in the NBA. Not surprisingly at all, Rudy Gobert (6th) and Derrick Favors (29th) are both among the league’s elite for rebounding percentage, while Gordon Hayward is fifth of all guards in the same category.
SportVU can add a little more specificity here once again. The Jazz are recovering 62.6 percent of all missed shots where one or more of their players is within 3.5 feet of the resulting rebound, up from 59.1 percent last year6 – the difference here may seem small, but their figure through three games this year would have led the entire league over 82 last season instead of the Jazz finishing 13th.
Verdict: Fairly sustainable, very likely to continue. Gobert’s increasing court time coupled with Favors’ continued development, along with far fewer small-ball lineups than last season[/QUOTE]
Booker is getting plenty of time and he's had G and Ingles at the 4 as well.
[QUOTE], should keep this group among the league’s better rebounding teams over the entire year. It’s a tad early still as far as sample sizes go (though not to the same degree as shooting), but all the underlying themes point in the same direction and there’s no pressing reason to think they won’t continue.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Jazz went on a 13-0 run in the 4th quarter to come all the way back from a 15 point deficit in the 2nd quarter to tie the game at 62. The group on the floor was Burke, Burks, Hawyard, Booker and Favors and when Favors picked up his 3rd foul he was replaced by Kanter and Hood came in for Burks in the midst of the run. Good sign when a run continues even in the midst of substitutions.[/QUOTE]
Not surprising when the guy getting replaced isn't doing anything.
[QUOTE]The game was tied at 62, 70 and 75. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin came back in the game with 7:33 left in the 4th with the Clippers up 85-82. They Clippers promptly stretched the lead to 7 at 91-84 with 6:19 left and to 9 with 2:52 left.
The Jazz bench had a nice night for a road game. Booker was strong again. 12points, 5 rebounds and he two three pointers. Rodney Hood hit two threes and had 6 points. Dante Exum wowed the crowd with a quick left hand drive on the left angle with an incredible burst of speed for a layup. Exum finished with 7 points, 2 assists and a awesome blocked shot. Rudy had another solid 15 minutes.. He ended up on a Jordan poster but you have to love that he trys to make those plays.
Consider that Dante Exum had 8 turnovers the first time he played the Clippers in pre-season and tonight he was fine and really was more than fine is remarkable. He has incredible ability to take instruction and integrate it into his game. He made three or four plays with his length. All signs with Dante are pointing upward it is just going to take some time. The goal this year is to build the foundation for him to build off in the future. This is as much off the floor as on the floor. There will be times when he is overwhelmed and times when he finds a rhythm. We will all want it accelerated but it is a process and it will be slow.
Enes Kanter had a nice offensive night with with 17 points and 9 rebounds.[/QUOTE]
In 26 minutes! Favors played the same amount and did nothing.
[QUOTE]Trey is shooting 33% with just 2 three pointers. He will get it going. He was trying very hard tonight to make plays.
Solid night tonight. Looking forward to the next two at home
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He might get it going. Based on last year that's still a question mark. What a pre-season he had though! :rolleyes:
[QUOTE]The Utah Jazz had 19 (+1) in for training camp and parsed that down to 13, and then signed two new guys. They have a roster right now that a) is 15 players strong, and b) shows that flexibility isn't important, but development is. The sad c) part of this three part breakdown of the Jazz roster is that there's no space for a call up right now.[/QUOTE]
They have even more flexibility after surprisingly eating Felix's contract. Murray's guarantee is only through next month and Hamilton and Ingles are non-guaranteed I imagine. Ingles looks like he'll be sticking around and I'd guess Hamilton as well. Murray will be headed to the D-league shortly to prove if he's worth keeping around. Evans has to be on the trade block I'd think. I see Hamilton replacing him on the active roster eventually.
[QUOTE]The Stamps have started their training camp with 17 players, and need to parse that down to 10 in a little over a week. If you look at the roster as it stands right now, there isn't a whole lot of information. What we do know is that the players who have shown up come from a number of places: NBA-DL draft picks, returning players, try outs / walk ons, and affiliate designations.
Another issue is that so many of them have come from all over, and have various experience levels, it's not an even playing field. There are guys pushing 30 going up against baby faced kids right out of college. What the Stamps will do is figure out who can play. And that's all that matters.
Here's the roster right now -- and their experience levels.
Player Pos Ht Wt Age College Acquired NCAA PRO (NBA) NBA Summer NBA Preseason PRO (INTL) PRO (NBADL) Total
1 Nick Covington 1 6 2 200 29 Weber St Draft 4 2 1 3 10
2 Jermelle Fraser 1 6 1 186 27 SUNY Maritime Tryout 6 6
3 Shane Gibson 1 6 2 180 24 Sacred Heart Draft 5 5
4 Tre Bussey 1 6 3 170 22 Georgia souther Draft 4 4
5 Dominique Kirk 1 6 3 185 28 Texas A&M Tryout 4 4
6 Dexter Strickland 2 6 3 181 24 North Carolina Returning 4 1 1 1 7
7 Ryan Sypkens 2 6 4 195 22 UC Davis Draft 5 5
8 Aaron Dotson 2 6 4 202 23 Utah Tryout 4 4
9 Reggie Hearn 2 6 4 210 23 Northwestern Returning 3 1 4
10 Kevin Murphy 3 2 6 6 185 24 Tennessee Tech Returning 4 1 3 2 1 2 13
11 B.J. Shearry 3 6 7 220 24 UC Irvine Tryout 4 4
12 Tyrrel Tate 3 6 5 215 22 Fayetteville St Draft 4 4
13 Joel Wright 3 6 7 225 24 Texas St Draft 4 4
14 Jack Cooley 4 5 6 9 244 23 Notre Dame Affiliate 4 2 1 1 8
15 Kodi Augustus 4 3 6 8 224 27 Mississippi St Draft 4 2 6
16 Quinton Doggett 4 3 6 8 220 24 Southern Draft 4 4
17 Brian Barkdoll 5 4 6 10 250 25 Northwest Nazarene Tryout 4 1 1 6
Covington played for the Jazz in Vegas. So I put him as the starter here. Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to figuring out the wings . . . but I have a soft spot for Kevin Murphy. The bigs are a mess . . . but that's the one part of the Jazz roster that is strongest.
Personally, I don't know who out of this crew will make the team. But I am excited to read more about them and how they progress over the next week. Watching the D league is going to be fun again now that we have our own team to root for and hope for.
This is going to be a fun season, with more NBADL coverage than previous years here at the Dunk. And I hope that you will enjoy it![/QUOTE]
Haven't heard of any of them other than the two Jazz cuts, Covington and Bussey.
[QUOTE]Just as that night in 2010, Gaines
[QUOTE]Coach Quin Snyder had seen Ingles
[QUOTE]As much as Burke idolized Allen Iverson, he should be looking to CP3 to emulate, not a shoot-first shooting point guard. His key to having a successful career will be passing, craftiness (because of his lack of size), and ability to hit key shots, just like Chris Paul.[/QUOTE]
You can't just change guys like that though. He's improved a lot as far as facilitating the offense but he's never going to be a pass first guy. The biggest problem is that he has had no one competing for his job the past two years. Exum will eventually but not having Neto around is a joke! I'd guess the've 2nd guessed their decision and he'll be with them next year if his buyout makes it doable. He was a free agent this year so if that's the case I'll be really pissed off! :facepalm
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[QUOTE]Chris Haynes: Cavs G Matthew Dellavedova will miss tonight's game against Jazz with left knee injury he sustained last night against #Blazers. Twitter @ChrisBHaynes [/QUOTE]
Good. He always killed BYU.
Nice buzzer beater. Cost me $80 (I had a 6 fold bet going, got 5 of 6 right), but I was pleased to see it.
Yes probably the shot of his life. Their defense still isn't very good though nor Trey Burke. Exum might be starting before long.
[QUOTE]in the first half, the Jazz did practically nothing wrong. They shot 59 percent, outrebounded the Cavs by nine, minimized turnovers, and played nothing like a team searching for its identity, taking a 59-48 lead.[/QUOTE]
Gave up 48 points. Lots of work still to do at that end for sure.
[QUOTE]They even let the Cavaliers take a brief second-half lead. But instead of folding, they looked a lot like the team management has been advertising since Hayward showed up. Speaking of which, he did show up on Wednesday, racking up 21 points, same as Favors. That included the play of the game. James had made three free throws to tie with three seconds remaining. The Jazz went in bounds and Hayward took it from there, sinking a 20-footer.
The EnergySolutions Arena crowd went all 1998.
Speaking of which, the Jazz didn