2019-20 season - Been waiting two decades for this one!

[url]https://thejnotes.com/2019/11/13/projecting-utah-jazz-championship-window-part-ii/3/[/url]

[QUOTE]Royce O

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[QUOTE]Disappointment #2

[QUOTE]But the Grizzlies have yet to show interest in that deal and whether the Mavs would revisit the offer is a question. Sources indicate that the Mavs

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[QUOTE]Going back to March, the Jazz have won 13 straight regular season games at home, where they picked up wins over the Sixers and Bucks last week, holding the latter (and their fourth-ranked offense) to their worst offensive output (100 points on 107 possessions) in the last 52 regular season games in which Giannis Antetokounmpo has played, though still needing Bojan Bogdanovic

Looks like no Oni tonite. I saw Oni on the bench at GS.

Brantley listed on roster but not playing. Assume he is with Jazz too

[QUOTE]Rick Bonnell: Grayson Allen will miss tonight

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2019/11/13/20963925/this-is-the-jazz-people-were-expecting[/url]

[QUOTE]Well, that time is essentially now. Having orchestrated a four-game win streak and a run of seven wins in nine outings, the Jazz are rounding into form early in the season even against a tougher schedule.
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Not there yet

[QUOTE]i still don't think we're at 'very good' levels yet
our 3pt attempt rate has gone down from last year, despite improving drastically (conley over rubio, paper moon over favs/crowder). some of that has been growing pains with new players getting adjusted to the offence, but it definitely needs to improve given that we finally have the personnel to support it. still need to cut down on turnovers as well, but more importantly we need to get our assists up. we

[url]https://sircharlesincharge.com/2019/11/13/nba-dark-horse-mvp-candidates-doncic/3/[/url]

[QUOTE]Often being compared to Dwayne Wade with shooting ability, Donovan Mitchell has the chance to not only win MVP of the league this season but also Finals MVP.
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let's start with team MVP first :rant

Tommy Beer: This season, Andrew Wiggins is averaging: * more points than Karl-Anthony Towns and Devin Booker * while posting a higher True Shooting percentage than LeBron James and Bradley Beal * Wiggins also has a higher PER than Pascal Siakam and Rudy Gobert

Just caught up on the Nets game, was good to see it was Mudiay and Green who spearheaded the late comeback and Snyder stuck with them (especially Mudiay) while they were running hot.

[QUOTE=El Kabong]Just caught up on the Nets game, was good to see it was Mudiay and Green who spearheaded the late comeback and Snyder stuck with them (especially Mudiay) while they were running hot.[/QUOTE]

I thought he should have stuck with them longer. Why pull them when they are getting it done? Almost cost them

Tony Jones: Dante Exum is listed as probable for tomorrow night

No, Conley never reached the mountain top that is an NBA championship. It

[url]https://thejnotes.com/2019/11/15/dante-exum-likely-make-2019-20-utah-jazz-debut-friday/[/url]

[QUOTE]If Exum can provide an athletic scoring punch off the bench and elite wing defense like he showed in the 2018 NBA Playoffs against James Harden, he will be a supremely valuable piece of this Jazz team. He

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/the-downbeat-latest-jazz-news/2019/11/15/20967192/2019-utah-jazz-perfect-balance-donovan-mitchell-mike-conley-rudy-gobert[/url]

[QUOTE]To fix that, and find that balance they were looking for, the Jazz made some hard decisions. They traded for Mike Conley and signed Bojan Bogdanovic in free agency. This meant letting Ricky Rubio go in free agency and trading Derrick Favors.
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what was hard about getting better? :rant

[QUOTE]Now, it

[QUOTE]Eric Walden: Dante Exum is AVAILABLE tonight vs. the Grizzlies pic.twitter.com/2xTeFN0k8X

[url]https://saltcityhoops.com/culture-is-key-to-the-jazzs-success/[/url]

[QUOTE]The most important part is a good owner. Ownership sets the culture for the organization and everything else is built upon that. The Jazz

[QUOTE]Dante Exum
DNP - Injury / Illness[/QUOTE]

I thought he was available. Looked like he was. Hopefully this means Mudiay has taken his job and the ear of the golden boy is over :cheers:

Eric Walden: Mike Conley:

[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/46674768/donovan-mitchell-blasts-ridiculous-no-call-as-utah-jazz-fall-late-to-memphis-grizzlies[/url]

[QUOTE]Utah (8-4) especially struggled whenever Rudy Gobert wasn

[url]https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2019/11/16/jazz-grizzlies-analysis/[/url]

[QUOTE]Green and Mudiay are going to be pretty trick-or-treat. That

[url]https://www.lockedonjazz.net/jazz/emptying-the-noggin-morant-steals-the-show-on-conleys-night/[/url]

[QUOTE]Ja Morant is outstanding. He is the best rookie since Donovan. He is taking over games and the best player on the floor for extended periods the way Donovan was three years ago. He has amazing control of the dribble, he has a great wiggle and he can really elevate around the rim. Most impressive, was how smart he was with his choices and his attack
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Mitchell wasn't usually the best player on the floor because of his teammate

[QUOTE]The Jazz defensive rating with Rudy Gobert on the floor was a 96.1 and with him off the floor was a 117.9
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way to carry them Mitchell! :rolleyes:

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2019/11/15/20967658/memphis-grizzlies-upset-utah-jazz-mike-conley-return-spoiled-by-ja-morant-homecoming[/url]

[QUOTE]Joe Ingles only took 4 shots. He contributed 2 assists and 2 rebounds, but he was otherwise absent. His defense has been good and his +/- was a positive for this game, but he

[QUOTE]Warriors guard D’Angelo Russell, who suffered a sprained right thumb during last night’s game against the Boston Celtics at Chase Center, underwent an MRI last night. The MRI confirmed the sprain. Russell will be re-evaluated in two (2) weeks and will not travel with the team on its upcoming four-game road trip to New Orleans, Memphis, Dallas and Utah. – via NBA.com

Andy Larsen: Jazz just assigned PG Nigel Williams-Goss to the SLC Stars for the first time this season. Makes sense, given that Exum provides cover to those minutes for the Jazz now that he’s healthy. – via Twitter andyblarsen[/QUOTE]

Be good to see what he can do at that level. He showed he could play abroad. Looks like they play again tomorrow. Haven't had a chance to watch yesterday's game yet. Guessing he will be back with Jazz Monday to give them 13 on the roster

Andy Larsen: Interesting! Jazz/Grizzlies L2M report says that the Solomon Hill strip was a Correct No Call.

[QUOTE]The defense is carrying the team as always, the offense is worse this year than last 2 seasons and the bench is a disaster.
You infer small sample size for the team progressing just fine. I

[QUOTE]I wanted to put Robert Covington in here, but the T-Wolves are seeing success. That could change by the end of December

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[QUOTE]If Utah did not want to part with Ed Davis, this trade becomes extremely tricky. It could work if Utah sends out Dante Exum, Jeff Green, Nigel Williams-Goss, Georges Niang, Tony Bradley, AND Stanton Kidd. It would put Utah well under the limit for players which Utah could fix by signing Jarrell Brantley and Justin Wright-Foreman to contracts for the rest of the year. This trade can

[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2019/11/17/20968412/utah-jazz-tony-bradley-backup-big-free-agents-g-league-trade-rumors[/url]

[QUOTE]The other part to being patient with Tony is Ed Davis is scheduled to be reevaluated first week of December. That doesn

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[QUOTE]It

Christopher Hine: Andrew Wiggins is doubtful for tomorrow

Might be the best the Stars have ever played. Goss wasn't great. Oni, Brantley, Wright, Collinsworth, Morgan were though

No Wiggins at shootatound

Wiggins and Napier out

Bradley benched. Ridiculous to not go get a big man :rant

[url]https://saltcityhoops.com/salt-city-seven-goberts-domination-bench-struggles-conley-homecoming-more/[/url]

[QUOTE]Add all of that up and Gobert is already having the impact of an MVP candidate. FiveThirtyEight

[url]https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2019/11/19/jazz-timberwolves/[/url]

[QUOTE]Too many times, the Jazz drove into the midrange and took terrible shots tonight, and they were justly punished for it, going 5-32 from anywhere from four feet to the 3-point arc. That led to the 96 offensive rating, which led to the Jazz

[url]https://saltcityhoops.com/kat-goes-off-jazz-go-cold-as-minny-wins-in-utah-112-102/[/url]

[QUOTE]The Jazz jumped out to an early six-point lead, but surrendered it promptly when they went to a smallball reserve unit to close the first quarter. Dante Exum