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

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[QUOTE]But what

Eric Walden: FINAL: Raptors 130, Jazz 108. Turns out giving up 70+ in a half and trailing by 40 is hard to come back from. Raptors shot 52.2% overall and 52.8% from 3. Utah is now 12-8 on the season, and at Philly tomorrow.

Tim Reynolds: Raptors 77, Jazz 37 at the half.

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[QUOTE]Let

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[QUOTE]Exum played 11 minutes in Sunday

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[QUOTE]Sure the Jazz were tired, playing the fourth game of a five-game road trip. However, Snyder had basically given his players two days off, not holding a Saturday practice or the usual shootaround on Sunday morning.
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maybe they needed them? Tired when you play every other day? Today sure. :rant

[QUOTE]Utah actually pulled within 16 late in the quarter, but the hole was too deep, and both teams cleared their benches for the final five minutes.
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He'd brought the starters back in briefly when the bench was playing well. Why? :wtf:

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[QUOTE]19: Siakam

[QUOTE]As far as teams that could pop up as potential Aldridge suitors, ********* asked various NBA executives for their thoughts on the matter, and one of the first landing spots that was mentioned was a familiar team for the big man:

[QUOTE]He currently ranks 10th with 8,879 assists, but he will soon surpass Gary Payton (8,966), Isiah Thomas (9,061) and perhaps even Chris Paul (9,290) this season. Assuming he maintains his season average of 11 per game, James should top Payton and Thomas at some point in the middle of this season. Paul, who is currently with the Oklahoma City Thunder in his 15th season, has stayed healthy and productive thus far. Considering Paul

Keith Pompey: #Sixers SG Josh Richardson is OUT tonight vs. the #UtahJazz with right hamstring tightness. pic.twitter.com/b9wXh8NJh9

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[QUOTE]3. Does the rotation need tweaking? After the six players named above, it gets dicier for the 2019-20 Jazz. Frankly put, the rotation has been a problem, and Snyder has experimented with staggering different starters into the second unit to try to stabilize groups that have bled points on the scoreboard. But lineups with two or fewer from that core group continue to struggle. Snyder has a tough call to make: does he stagger his starters more liberaly across the second unit, even if that means fewer minutes for his best players to play together? Or does he prioritize the strength of that core group and continue to sweat those bench stretches?
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got to change things coty and the Wizard needs to get some help

[QUOTE]Dante Exum appears to be making a case for more minute as he works his way back from knee rehab, but even his advanced numbers look wobbly since he

Kyle Neubeck: Trey Burke is out tonight with an upper respiratory illness.

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[QUOTE]It looked like the Jazz were headed for a complete blowout loss but when Jazz coach Quin Snyder pulled the starters with 6:55 remaining in the game and down 18 points, the bench showed a lot of energy. The defense was better (five straight empty possessions for the Sixers) and the ball started moving. Suddenly, the Jazz were down only 10 and the starters began to trickle back into the lineup with three to four minutes to play.
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Why can't he just stick with the guys that are playing well? :rant

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[QUOTE]The Utah Jazz were involved in a trade rumor years ago that would

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[QUOTE]In just a one week span, the Jazz

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[QUOTE]On paper, the Jazz look to be among the elite teams in the league. They have a dynamic player in Donovan Mitchell, they have one of the league

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[QUOTE]Utah

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[QUOTE]Since the season is now more than a quarter over, you can

[QUOTE]Harden

Derek Bodner: Mitchell said he wouldn

Anthony Slater: League beginning its shift away from the Warriors

Andy Larsen: Mike Conley is out for the Jazz

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[QUOTE]There

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[QUOTE]Snyder and the Jazz have Donovan Mitchell to thank for that offense. His stardom was obvious, as was the fact that he needed help. Utah

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[QUOTE]Donovan Mitchell was the number 1 option for the Utah Jazz last year.

Mike Conley was the number 1 option for the Memphis Grizzlies last year.

Bojan Bogdanovic was the number 1 option for the Indiana Pacers for a significant portion of last year.[/QUOTE]

and for some reason Mitchell thinks he should be even more selfish. He seems to have believed the hype. Maybe having his own shoe went to his head? :rant

[QUOTE]But yeah, they need a better power forward. They need somebody who can rebound, so that all the rebounding is not on Rudy Gobert. They need somebody a little bigger than Royce O

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[QUOTE]Utah will continually work Dante Exum and Ed Davis back into the rotation, as they are back from their injuries. I

Eric Walden: Rudy Gobert said the level of criticism the Jazz faced after their poor road trip was a bit overboard:

Andy Larsen: Juwan Morgan is also listed as out for tonight

Mike Trudell: For tonight

Eric Walden: Lakers coach Frank Vogel said he expects both Anthony Davis and Kyle Kuzma to play tonight. He said they

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[QUOTE]Well, most of the failures of the bench fall on the shoulders of Utah

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[QUOTE]Personally, I think I

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[QUOTE]Bojan and Gobert are fine, Royce is super low usage player ( 5,9 ppg). But you can

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[QUOTE]Having said that, let

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[QUOTE]SALT LAKE CITY

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[QUOTE]The Jazz know that their struggles have come mostly on the defensive end, allowing 119.4 points per a game for their opponent during those four losses. Utah Coach Quin Snyder highlighted these struggles in an interview after the game.
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hardly all defensively. A lot of their defensive problems are from turnovers

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[QUOTE]So, where do the Jazz go from here? Looking at a few different factors, the most probable answer is definitely up. Starting Saturday night at home vs. Memphis, the Jazz will play 18 of their next 22 games against teams that currently have a losing record. The four games against teams with winning records are Minnesota, Miami, Clippers and Pacers, which you would think are games the Jazz would have a shot to win as well. Here

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[QUOTE]The Jazz have got to feed the hot hand when it is there. Last night Bogdanovic had a great first half, but only got up 15 shot attempts to finish with 23 points. Had he gotten more touches he could

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[QUOTE]What makes this sting even more is that Brogdon is making just $20 million this year, while Conley is at $32.5 million. I know I

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[QUOTE]Unfortunately, while coming into the year we believed this Jazz team to be deep, thus far their second unit has instead appeared exposed as incompetent. Guys like Ed Davis, Georges Niang and Tony Bradley just aren