GTS Utah @ Phoenix 1/4/13

Which team has more assists?

Jazz are like Jackyl and Hyde... will go on the road and start sucking. Hope I am wrong but Phoenix by 9 and they as well will have more assists.
Tinsley did really great vs scrub PG like Ridnour. Dragic is going to be different storry and I am already dreading matchup vs Lawson next day.

Jazz by 10, Jazz with more assists.

Jazz by 2.
Jazz with more assists.

Jazz by 7.
Jazz more assists.

Jazz by 7, Phoenix with more assists.

By now, my guesses are almost totally random, because I apparently have NO IDEA what this team will do from game to game.

Jazz win by 8. Jazz have more assists.

Phx 2
Phx assists

gadamnit!

Jazz by 6

Jazz with more assists

jazz by 6

Jazz 10 jazz ast.

Calgary Jazz wrote:

Jazz are like Jackyl and Hyde... will go on the road and start sucking. Hope I am wrong but Phoenix by 9 and they as well will have more assists.
Tinsley did really great vs scrub PG like Ridnour. Dragic is going to be different storry and I am already dreading matchup vs Lawson next day.

More like Full Metal Jackyl, IMO. Sometimes they play with the jackyl weighing them down, sometimes light as a father without it.

Pho by 7
Jazz asst.

Calgary Jazz wrote:

Jazz are like Jackyl and Hyde... will go on the road and start sucking. Hope I am wrong but Phoenix by 9 and they as well will have more assists.
Tinsley did really great vs scrub PG like Ridnour. Dragic is going to be different storry and I am already dreading matchup vs Lawson next day.

More like Full Metal Jackyl, IMO. Sometimes they play with the jackyl weighing them down, sometimes light as a father without it.

Pho by 7
UTA asst.

IB4TStart

Needed CJ to slip and show chink in his armor.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGh0EMmMC8

Well that was a solid all around effort. Really liked seeing Millsap and Favors get some run together, haven't seen much of that this year. Be interesting to see if they can bring it against a quality team tomorrow.

TheMagnus wrote:

Well that was a solid all around effort. Really liked seeing Millsap and Favors get some run together, haven't seen much of that this year. Be interesting to see if they can bring it against a quality team tomorrow.

Quality, yeah. I'm no hater by any measure but the opposition gave Corbin the latitude.

On a side note, I've been reading tons of love for Sap around the webz. I think his value is much higher than jazznation credits.

Jazz won by 7. Jazz had more assists.

zero24gravity wrote:

Jazz won by 7. Jazz had more assists.

missed by one freakin point

TheMagnus wrote:

Well that was a solid all around effort. Really liked seeing Millsap and Favors get some run together, haven't seen much of that this year. Be interesting to see if they can bring it against a quality team tomorrow.

UGH!!!! I HATED that game. It was a win against a terrible team, but still.....It really only stems from the 1st quarter I guess, but it was so ugly, it was depressing. Even with the win. Thankfully Corbin just barely squeaked his head out of his ass long enough to see that our starting unit is pathetic. Going into Al time and time again, other guys standing around, not moving, all with that unit is an absolutely terrible starting unit. Al, Foye and really Tinsley who all are slow as sh*t and cant play any D, makes for 75% shooting like PHX did that first half. Once we got down by 12 or whatever, Corbin finally got Gordo in there who started making things happen.
Our starting unit has NO movement, there is no team game and if it stays as it is, we're going to go down hard the rest of the year. There are no offensive options, and the defense and hustle is non-existant.
Getting DC in there will make a big difference for that starting 5. His hustle will create extra possessions, and his defense help and team, is a difference maker that that particular unit has got to have.
The only reason we got back in that game was Gordo/Fav/DC/Burks. And once that unit got things moving, Paul game back and was able to come in and be the Millsap we know. And then, THEN there was finally defense, movement, good shots, rebounds, hustle and the Jazz took a lead they never lost. Was funny too, that once the rest of the starters/Jazz saw those hustle guys going, guys like Al came in and all of a sudden there was movement. Layups under the basket from Al after he actually got deep position, instead of just the camping out 7ft from the basket and calling for the ball.
There has GOT to be a change to the starting unit and rotations. That collection of guys for the starting 5 is TERRIBLE. Slow point, slow wing, slow rim protector.We will get down in the first quarter of every game. Also, that particular unit is one that doesn't utilize what Paul brings at all. Paul is the best all around player, but not one of those guys, aside from Tinsely a bit, is a guy that can play the team type of ball that Paul excels at. Hitting Paul on the move and when he gets open, and those guys also on the move because he's a great passer. And on D....ugh, there isn't even a point.

If there isn't at least DC put in the starting 5 for Foye soon, there is a losing streak coming fast and hard.

zero24gravity wrote:

Jazz won by 7. Jazz had more assists.

Nailed it!

Mutangclan wrote:

If there isn't at least DC put in the starting 5 for Foye soon, there is a losing streak coming fast and hard.

Couldn't agree more. The Jazz were just a hair away from being blown out by a crappy PHX team, despite the score, and it all centered on what you noted: the starting unit is slow and can't play D. I'd like to see Hayward start over Foye and DC over Marvin. Hayward over Foye is obvious in my book and DC over Marvin more subtle. DC is a tone setter that other players feed off of. Whether his shot is falling or not he is flat out contagiously hustling. The idea is that the starting unit is supposed to establish leads or stay close, not wait for the second unit to bail them out then to be subbed out for the starting unit to lose the game for them. Moving Marvin to the second rotation actually makes him closer to the 2nd or 3rd option on offense without giving up anything on D. With that starting unit Corbin would have more interesting options for tweaking who actually finishes games based on opposing line-ups.