Like taking candy from a baby...
A bit tough to grade actually since it really felt like 48min of garbagetime
Peja ( B+ ) -- very very easy outing for Peja. In the first half ran around hitting open shots from all over the court. If he does that against the Spurs, its a flat out A. But at some point there has to be some recognition that this was just all too easy. Shot disappeared in the second half, and Utah took him out of the game somewhat with extra attention. But Peja responded solidly passing out of the doubles with Utah too disorganized to recover to the open men. Strong solid game doing what he had to against a vastly overmatched opponent, but hard to say any more than that against Devin Williams, Andre Owens, Kris Humprhies et. al.
Reef ( B- ) -- didn't do much at all, but still outperformed Memo, and may even have had something to do with Okur's awful game (although the 4 games in 5 nights might be the more likely culprit). Again a grade caught up in the scrimmage-like nature of this game. Give us 3 rebs against the Spurs, and the grade goes plummeting. But against this group of Jazz, or at least guys off the street wearing Jazz uniforms, you can just say that Reef did enough and let it go at that.
Miller ( B ) -- solid all around game against his fellow Hick and all kinds of total garbage off the bench. Robert Whaley? Are you kidding me? Hit his jumper, which was seldom covered, and helped us get off to a good start by running the offense from the traditional (for us) high post area. Rebounding = still not impressive. But again this falls under the "good enough" rubric.
Bonzi ( A ) -- finally back to the tough Bonzi around the basket we saw for the first few games, and it seemed to key a resurgence of his entire game. Easily our best rebounder again (almost doing the big embarrassing by threatening to outrebound our ENTIRE soft, softer, and softest frontline . Passed well and set up people out of the post. Started to crank up the defense in the second half as well. Even hit a three. In a game like this I really hate to give out a solid A and kept on trying to add a minus, but Bonzi really did dominate for stretches, and in every facet of the game.
Bibby ( A- ) -- offensively shot was on, although as with Peja he wasn't exactly having to work very hard to get it off. This wasn't much of a game, but maybe it can still help us just by letting Mike rediscover his stroke, which all of a sudden wasn't effected by muscle or whatnot as soon as you just left him totally unguarded. Defensively not as good as Milt Palacio and Deron Williams -- the two PGs -- were the only two Jazz who kept them from scoring less than 50pts.
A bit tough to grade actually since it really felt like 48min of garbagetime
Peja ( B+ ) -- very very easy outing for Peja. In the first half ran around hitting open shots from all over the court. If he does that against the Spurs, its a flat out A. But at some point there has to be some recognition that this was just all too easy. Shot disappeared in the second half, and Utah took him out of the game somewhat with extra attention. But Peja responded solidly passing out of the doubles with Utah too disorganized to recover to the open men. Strong solid game doing what he had to against a vastly overmatched opponent, but hard to say any more than that against Devin Williams, Andre Owens, Kris Humprhies et. al.
Reef ( B- ) -- didn't do much at all, but still outperformed Memo, and may even have had something to do with Okur's awful game (although the 4 games in 5 nights might be the more likely culprit). Again a grade caught up in the scrimmage-like nature of this game. Give us 3 rebs against the Spurs, and the grade goes plummeting. But against this group of Jazz, or at least guys off the street wearing Jazz uniforms, you can just say that Reef did enough and let it go at that.
Miller ( B ) -- solid all around game against his fellow Hick and all kinds of total garbage off the bench. Robert Whaley? Are you kidding me? Hit his jumper, which was seldom covered, and helped us get off to a good start by running the offense from the traditional (for us) high post area. Rebounding = still not impressive. But again this falls under the "good enough" rubric.
Bonzi ( A ) -- finally back to the tough Bonzi around the basket we saw for the first few games, and it seemed to key a resurgence of his entire game. Easily our best rebounder again (almost doing the big embarrassing by threatening to outrebound our ENTIRE soft, softer, and softest frontline . Passed well and set up people out of the post. Started to crank up the defense in the second half as well. Even hit a three. In a game like this I really hate to give out a solid A and kept on trying to add a minus, but Bonzi really did dominate for stretches, and in every facet of the game.
Bibby ( A- ) -- offensively shot was on, although as with Peja he wasn't exactly having to work very hard to get it off. This wasn't much of a game, but maybe it can still help us just by letting Mike rediscover his stroke, which all of a sudden wasn't effected by muscle or whatnot as soon as you just left him totally unguarded. Defensively not as good as Milt Palacio and Deron Williams -- the two PGs -- were the only two Jazz who kept them from scoring less than 50pts.
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