Round 2!

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22451214/mike-conley-left-mark-with-memphis-grizzies-revitalized-career-with-utah-jazz[/url]

[QUOTE]The Jazz dealt Grayson Allen, Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver, the draft rights to Darius Bazley and a protected first-round pick to the Grizzlies in exchange for Conley.

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Still got to wonder what the team would look like if the Wizard hadn't refused to trade Exum for Conley months earlier. Might have kept Favors, Crowder, Allen and Korver

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22526548/utah-jazz-donovan-mitchell-isnt-only-jazzman-who-can-take-over-a-game-joe-ingles-bojan-bogdanovic[/url]

[QUOTE]“I don’t feel like I have to go out there and do everything,” Mitchell said. “That’s a credit to the guys we have on this team because they can go out to make plays. Everybody’s elevating their game.”

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you sure play like it

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22522657/utah-jazz-donovan-mitchells-37-points-power-jazz-past-la-clippers-nba-playoffs-western-conference[/url]

[QUOTE]Mitchell scored a game-high 37 points and wasn’t even at his best in Utah’s 117-111 win over LA

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What's his best? He rarely shows up for 4 quarters

[QUOTE]Donovan Mitchell scored a game-high 37 points and it wasn’t even like he had a great game. That’s what is so impressive about Mitchell and what Jazz fans should be looking forward to. This isn’t Mitchell at his best. He had a lackluster first half in Game 1, made a lot of offensive mistakes in Game 2 and has still led this series in scoring. His best is yet to come.

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a lot more to the game than scoring

[QUOTE]Mitchell had two plays where it looked like he got hurt. By the end of the game, after a collision with Paul George, Mitchell was limping and looked uncomfortable. After the game he said he was fine, even offered to sprint to prove it. He’s tough, but it wasn’t great to watch him limping around.

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we've yet to hear how Bojan feels

[QUOTE]The Jazz were completely upended when the Clippers started playing zone. The thing that beats a zone is good ball movement and instead the Jazz kept letting the ball stick, didn’t utilize screens and played a ton of iso-ball. This is where the Jazz desperately missed Mike Conley.

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they miss him not guarding Jackson

[url]https://thejnotes.com/2021/06/11/utah-jazz-offense-lethal-playoffs/[/url]

[QUOTE]Even without Conley in the lineup, the team has four players (Mitchell, Ingles, Bogdanovic, Clarkson) who can all create their own shot, play in the pick and roll, and consistently draw attention when they have the ball. Most teams have a couple of guys who can do that, but few have four who are all reliable playmaking threats.

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Conley and Ingles are the playmakers. Two gunners and a shooter

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50184705/from-the-comments-the-jazz-were-crushed-by-the-zone--is-there-any-answer[/url]

[QUOTE]As effective as the zone was on some possessions, there were just as many where the Jazz just missed (or didn't take) open shots. The key for Utah, and really any other team, to break any defense is to get into the paint, make the defense collapse and swing the ball.

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but Mitchell and Clarkson would have to pass

[QUOTE]Joe Ingles gets into the paint, the defense collapses and the Jazz swing the ball to Royce O'Neale, who side dribbles into a wide-open look — that he doesn't take. Sure, Mitchell at this point was a walking inferno, but still, O'Neale has to take that shot.

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yep Royce has to take it

[QUOTE]Mitchell gets into the paint and draws a huge crowd before forcing up a layup attempt. Look at him after the play, jumping and pointing at Bojan Bogdanovic. Mitchell knew he missed the kick out for the open 3.

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O'Neale was open too. Typical gunning by Mitchell

[QUOTE]The zone changed some of Utah's reads here and there, but looking at the success they already had against it coupled with a couple days of film, it doesn't appears like the Jazz should have much trouble with the zone going forward.

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what happens with the next thing Lue throws at them? Snyder doesn't like to change anything

[QUOTE]But even before getting tripped up, Mitchell looked gassed. Dealing with switches, Kawhi Leonard, Patrick Beverly and everything else adds up. For the most part, he handled everything the Clippers threw at him, but with Mike Conley not being available in the first two games of the series, fatigue has started to set in. Conley has not yet been ruled out of Game 3.

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pretty simple. Play with your teammates for a change

[url]https://kslsports.com/461342/jazz-look-to-take-commanding-lead-over-clippers-in-game-three/[/url]

[QUOTE]After halftime, the guard managed just 10 points on 4-13 shooting including 1-4 from the three-point line. Despite his dip in play, Mitchell insisted he was fine outside of a few bumps and bruises.

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that's the thing with the statues and Gobert. They always bring/brought it at both ends. Mitchell shows up at one end at times

[QUOTE]Time is running out for coach Tyronn Lue to solve the Jazz dangerous attack as the Clippers look to avoid falling into a 3-0 hole against Utah.

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home team hasn't lost yet

[url]https://kslsports.com/461323/stephen-a-smith-donovan-mitchell-best-player-in-jazz-history/[/url]

[QUOTE]But does Mitchell have a case to one day become the greatest payer in Jazz history? As of today, he doesn’t have the resume that either Stockton or Malone built over nearly two decades with the team.

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anything is possible but right now he's not even one of the top two on the current team

[QUOTE]However, neither Stockton nor Malone had reached Mitchell’s great heights so soon in their careers. Mitchell’s two playoff series wins are more than Malone had in his first four seasons in the NBA, and the guard did it while leading the team in scoring each of his first four seasons with the team.

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Dantley led the team Malone's rookie year

[QUOTE]Additionally, Mitchell’s four career 40-point playoff games is tied with Malone, despite playing 164 fewer postseason games than “The Mailman.” Furthermore, Mitchell has the sixth-highest scoring average in NBA postseason history, trailing only Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, Kevin Durant, Jerry West, and LeBron James all time.

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different era

[QUOTE]So while Mitchell may not have the career accolades, nor two NBA Finals appearances like Stockton and Malone, he may well be on his path to becoming the greatest player in Jazz history as Smith proclaimed.

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He's not close to either

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22528221/bojan-bogdanovic-has-been-a-revelation-for-utah-jazz-on-defense-against-la-clippers-in-nba-playoffs[/url]

[QUOTE]“He is [I]so[/I] good offensively that you think of Bojan and that’s what you think,” Ingles said.

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because it's all he's shown

[QUOTE]“I think that our defense is the key in this series,” Bogdanovic said.

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nice that someone realizes it

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22527252/utah-jazz-have-contained-kawhi-leonard-bojan-bogdanovic-defense-nba-playoffs-takeaways-la-clippers[/url]

[QUOTE]In this clip, Clarkson is guarding Leonard and Bogdanovic leaves Reggie Jackson to double-team Leonard. It forces the ball out of Leonard’s hands.

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Reggie is hurting them. Need Mike

[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22526548/utah-jazz-donovan-mitchell-isnt-only-jazzman-who-can-take-over-a-game-joe-ingles-bojan-bogdanovic[/url]

[QUOTE]What’s special about this Jazz team is that even with a player like Mitchell, there is so much trust, and each player on the roster is so unselfish that he doesn’t have to carry the pressure of being [I]the[/I] guy. And, Mitchell’s willingness to not always be in the spotlight actually makes him better and even more impressive.

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Clarkson and Mitchell unselfish? :lol

[url]https://kslsports.com/461342/jazz-look-to-take-commanding-lead-over-clippers-in-game-three/[/url]

[QUOTE]Michell did however shows signs that he was human in the second half of game two, either dealing with injuries to right leg or due to fatigue.

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nothing to do with adjustments the other team made or the fact that he is streaky?

Mirjam Swanson: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Quin Snyder on Conley missing Game 3 with the hammy: “It has nothing to do with us feeling any form of accomplishment having won a couple games — Mike’s not ready to go yet.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/MirjamSwanson"]Twitter MirjamSwanson[/URL]





Mirjam Swanson: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Quin Snyder on Ty Lue’s insistence that the Clippers up their physicality: “I know they were really, really aggressive — did a great job, frankly, of blocking us out. I thought they were really physical .. with Rudy on the boards, with switches[/URL]. “We have to be physical.”
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/MirjamSwanson"]Twitter MirjamSwanson[/URL]






Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Quin Snyder, on Ty Lue promising more physicality from the Clippers: “We’ve got to be physical [too]. That’s what the playoffs are about. … The biggest thing is to not look for outside help with that. If the game is being played a certain way, you have to respond.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]






Law Murray: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Quin Snyder says that his team’s spacing in particular against the Clippers zone in Game 2 was subpar[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/LawMurrayTheNU"]Twitter LawMurrayTheNU[/URL]








Mirjam Swanson: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Ty Lue on Donovan vs. Luka: “He’s faster, and it’s hard to try to blitz him, so we just gotta do a better job … one on one.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/MirjamSwanson"]Twitter MirjamSwanson[/URL]







Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Ty Lue said he’ll be making some minor adjustments for Game 2, specifically to address increasing physicality and improving 1-on-1 defense. Added he expects the Clippers to shoot better at Staples Center[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]

Andrew Greif: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]“Our confidence has not wavered. We’re not shaken,” Ty Lue says of being down 0-2 again[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/AndrewGreif"]Twitter AndrewGreif[/URL]




Mark Medina: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Clippers coach Ty Lue noted that Kawhi Leonard and PauL George could play more aggressively, but he praised them for often making the right basketball play and that everyone simply needs to make open shots[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina"]Twitter MarkG_Medina[/URL]






Melissa Rohlin: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Ty Lue on if he talks to Marcus Morris Jr. when he’s in a shooting slump: “I talk to him, tell him to make a damn shot.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/melissarohlin"]Twitter melissarohlin[/URL]







Law Murray: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Tyronn Lue says that the team went to the NBA about the illegal screens called against his team in Game 2, and the league said that the fouls against Ivica Zubac should not have been called[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/LawMurrayTheNU"]Twitter LawMurrayTheNU[/URL]







Mirjam Swanson: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Ty Lue on Serge’s season-ending surgery: “It’s tough, I talked to him, just saying, ‘Prayers, get healthy.'”[/URL]

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









Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Ty Lue said the biggest issue in Games 1 and 2 has been the Clippers’ poor 1-on-1 defense. Said they haven’t done a good enough job containing Donovan Mitchell and Jordan Clarkson, or in closing out on the Jazz’s shooters[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]

Jared Weiss: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Donovan Mitchell: “I’m good. That’s all I got for you. I’m good.[/URL] The situation happened. I felt like I was good to come back, but no need to risk it down 18. Time to rest up and get ready for the next game.”

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




With the game slipping away from the Jazz, Mitchell had a conversation with coach Quin Snyder. He did not return to the game, although the Utah medical staff had cleared him to return. [URL="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31622165/utah-jazz-donovan-mitchell-exits-ankle-pain-says-ready-game-4"]“He’s in good shape,” Snyder said. “He could have gone back in the game, but at that point, the lead had stretched.[/URL] In fact, while we were talking, I think Kawhi hit a 3. That was my decision not to put him back in at that point. The game had gotten away from us at that point, but he’s fine.”
– via [URL="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31622165/utah-jazz-donovan-mitchell-exits-ankle-pain-says-ready-game-4"]Tim MacMahon @ ESPN[/URL]






[URL="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31622610/paul-george-sets-tone-bounce-back-effort-la-clippers-rout-utah-jazz-needed-game-3-win"]When asked what his relationship is with Ingles, George said, “I don’t care about him. Next question.” For the Clippers, there is no question how good they can be when George and Leonard shift their games to another level like they did on Saturday.[/URL] Not only did they combine to make 26 of 48 shots but they also took the challenge of slowing down Donovan Mitchell. While Mitchell finished with 30 points before tweaking his sore right ankle, he was held scoreless for the first 16 minutes and 26 seconds of the game. After contesting 71% of his field goal attempts in the first two Jazz wins, the Clippers contested all but one of Mitchell’s 24 shots in Game 3, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.
– via [URL="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31622610/paul-george-sets-tone-bounce-back-effort-la-clippers-rout-utah-jazz-needed-game-3-win"]Ohm Youngmisuk @ ESPN[/URL]

[url]https://kslsports.com/461405/clippers-beat-jazz-in-must-win-game-three/[/url]

[QUOTE]The Clippers showed the same resolve against the Jazz in game three, avoiding an 0-3 hole, and shifting the pressure back onto Utah to steal a game in LA, or otherwise return home with the series evened up at two games apiece.

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pressure is on LA. Jazz have home court. Best home team in league

[QUOTE]Though Mitchell said he could have returned had the game been closer, the Jazz face a stark reality that they won’t have a healthy lead ball-handler for the rest of the playoffs. Mitchell has labored with his injury at least one point in every game since returning against the Memphis Grizzlies in the opening round.

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good thing he forced his way back on to the court :facepalm

[QUOTE]The Jazz have built their identity around the three-point shot this season, but it was from inside the arc where the Jazz lost game three to the Clippers.

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defense lost it :facepalm

[QUOTE]Bogdanovic had his worst game of the series, scoring just nine points on 2-10 shooting despite getting several open looks inside the three-point line.

Jordan Clarkson also had his worst outing of the series, connecting on just 1-7 field-goal from two-point range.

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and coty stuck with them