Re: 2017-2018 Utah Jazz season discussion... back to square one again
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[QUOTE]With 5:30 left in the game, the Jazz were missing their best offensive player (Donovan Mitchell), their point guard and floor general (Ricky Rubio), and their James Harden defensive specialist/best speed scorer (Dante Exum) due to injury.
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Burks. At least you won't have to not talk about Alec next year when he's on another team
[QUOTE]This was also probably the best game of Mitchell's career in terms of finding a balance between scoring and finding teammates. That's only the third time he's gotten at least nine assists, and in the first two instances, he scored under 20 points. On Tuesday night, Mitchell was able to do both.
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Need to build around pick and roll with him and Rudy and shooters. Rubio off the bench or ideally on another team.
[QUOTE]That's good because it appears Mitchell wants to get back to work. He'll undergo his exit interview Wednesday, then take a well-deserved break along with giving him a chance to heal up. Then, Mitchell will work with Johnnie Bryant in the offseason. Who knows what he's capable of.
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Him and Gobert need to spend as much time as they can together running pick and roll. Ideally with some tutelage from Stockton and Malone. No reason they can't do what Harden/Paul and Capela do with shooters around them
Re: 2017-2018 Utah Jazz season discussion... back to square one again
[url]https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865698248/Utah-Jazz-trail-Houston-Rockets-54-46-at-halftime-of-Game-5.html[/url]
[QUOTE]Starting floor general Ricky Rubio missed the entire Rockets series with a left hamstring strain. Key reserve Dante Exum couldn
Re: 2017-2018 Utah Jazz season discussion... back to square one again
[url]http://saltcityhoops.com/mitchell-goes-off-then-goes-down-as-jazz-lose-series-to-houston/[/url]
[QUOTE]In all likelihood, the franchise will boast: the league
Re: 2017-2018 Utah Jazz season discussion... back to square one again
[url]https://www.slcdunk.com/2018/5/8/17334218/2018-nba-playoffs-utah-jazz-houston-rockets-donovan-mitchell-offseason-2017-joe-ingles-rudy-gobert[/url]
[QUOTE]Many have anecdotally said that this Utah Jazz team has to be their favorite Utah Jazz team of All-Time. At first I skeptically listened because that just sounds like something you say when you