[Game] Kings @ Jazz, 11/02/21 6pm Pacific 9pm Eastern

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Conley faked Harkless out of his jockstrap; good job for the Kings, that he missed it.

 

[SacTownKid]

He’s missing those shots, because he’s still trying to out fast everyone instead of changing speeds and using his new muscles. Donovan Mitchell is out there doing pivots, spins and shooting clean as shots while operating at 2/3rds Fox’s speed. It’s not angles, it’s Fox. Dude is one speed.

Watch their offensive sets and where their pick and roll attack comes from.

 

[Tetsujin]

Moe spin move lol

 

[Tetsujin]

Davion's defensive awareness is crazy man.

 

[Tetsujin]

LOLUKE wasting a challenge here?!

 

[kb02]

Watch their offensive sets and where their pick and roll attack comes from.

He’s ran the offense for the last 4 mins. Still one speed. This isn’t on Walton.

 

[SacTownKid]

Yeah, that was an iffy play there. I like Luke calling this to basically get the refs to stop being idiots, haha.

 

[Tetsujin]

Quin Snyder trying to fight Bill Kennedy even though Luke's the one challenging that

 

[Capt. Factorial]

LOLUKE wasting a challenge here?!

So basically it's "don't use the challenge at all" or "waste it in the first on a call that won't be overturned". OK.

 

[LoungeLizard]

We get called for at least 4 moving screen fouls a game (unofficial/official stat)

 

[Tetsujin]

Yeah, that was an iffy play there. I like Luke calling this to basically get the refs to stop being idiots, haha.

I mean, the Jazz announcers are saying that it's a screen but it looks like Conley just ran into a dude after he handed the ball off like a quarterback for some reason.

 

[SacTownKid]

He’s ran the offense for the last 4 mins. Still one speed. This isn’t on Walton.

You compared him to Mitchell. They never if rarely ever keep Mitchells left hand away from him going to the rim on their pick and roll game.

 

[Entity]

Kayte and mark see the same thing I see and I know Luke wanted review for the points not the foul.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Surprise surprise

 

[Tetsujin]

Feels like Holly Rowe is too good to be doing sideline reports for normal Utah-Sac games but I don't make these decisions.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

LOLUKE wasting a challenge here?!

Thurl Bailey and Holly Rowe are roasting Luke Walton for wasting his challenge.

 

[Tetsujin]

If I'm the Jazz I'm not feeling great about only being up four when it feels like the entire Kings lineup has played like hot garbage.

 

[Tetsujin]

Thurl Bailey and Holly Rowe are roasting Luke Walton for wasting his challenge.

I get that he wanted the points but it's the first quarter and it was clearly a foul AND the game's close enough that he doesn't have to be in desperation mode quite yet.

 

[SacTownKid]

Thurl Bailey and Holly Rowe are roasting Luke Walton for wasting his challenge.

He's playing 4D chess bro. Seriously though, I think he probably used it so the refs can see that the Jazz are doing a lot of cheap things to pick up quick fouls. In the end, he chose, he lost. What's new. The bigger concern is this offense. Holy crap this dude has no idea how to run a guard lineup like this one. No way. Can this team call up Bobby Jackson from the G-league or is that not in the rules?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Kayte and mark see the same thing I see and I know Luke wanted review for the points not the foul.

Yeah, but they had to overturn the foul call, in order for him to get the points. That wasn't one of those situations where Fox could have gotten a loose ball foul call, but the three still counts.

 

[Tetsujin]

Holmes blocks Gobert lol

 

[Entity]

Hali is starting to get more consistent and Barnes stays that way. Buddy is buddy Holmes is Holmes. Fox is atrocious

 

[Woot!]

Likely not a popular opinion here, but I would like to see Bagley get some minutes.

TD has been quite bad, Moe not very useful, and Barnes, while great, is playing very heavy minutes. There is of course the issue of how you replace the minutes of TD/Moe with Bagley, since they don't play the same position, and some imbalance that might cause. While true, I do hope we can figure something out to buy him some time.

The team has been struggling offensively, and Bagley can help there. Moreover, his trade value is pretty much zero now. If he plays okay, we can hopefully get at least something for him.

I can hear the complaints about defense, ball stopping, cluttered middle, etc. However, we need to get more offense from somewhere, reduce minutes for Barnes, likely eliminate minutes for TD, and hopefully increase Bagley's value around the league. All these boxes can get checked by giving him some time.

I'm agnostic on Bags, in particular, but would definitely like to see Luke extend his rotation. He's basically been playing 8, with heavy loads on HB and Fox. Depth was supposed to be a strength.

 

[EIM86]

D’Antoni is still available…..

 

[Tetsujin]

BUDDY FROM BRYCE CANYON!

 

[Tetsujin]

Davion out here looking like the max contract player right now

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Yes, Thurl, we could all see that coming. I respect Holmes' onions, though.

 

[Tetsujin]

Jazz running the offense through Gobert like they accidentally got Luke's playbook

 

[Capt. Factorial]

BUDDY FROM BRYCE CANYON!

All the while Killdeering it with the ankle

 

[Woot!]

They are running ZERO offense right now.