[Post Game Thread] The Utah Jazz (4-10, 2-2) get absolutely beat on by the LA Lakers (9-6, 4-0) 131-99. The Jazz are eliminated from In-Season Tourney play.
Well the Jazz are pretty much eliminated from the in-season tourney with this dreadful loss.
This was such an embarrassing game, and it sucks that it was on national TV. Nobody in our regular rotation was able to do anything offensively.
John Collins was the best starter tonight offensively, but was absolutely torn apart defensively. 15 points on 6-12, 2-5, 1-2 shooting with just 4 rebounds and a -29 in 25 minutes. Defensively, he couldn’t grab a board, he couldn’t box out, he couldn’t stop AD, or even communicate on switches. It was embarrassing.
Lauri Markkanen also didn’t play a perfect game. 4-10, 2-7, 8 rebouunds, 10 points in 22 minutes. He was able to get some boards, but he wasn’t able to stop AD down low, and the pick n roll with LeBron absolutely cooked Lauri & Collins.
Jordan Clarkson finally came back to earth, shooting 3-9, 0-3, 1-1 from the line for 7 points. 2 assists and 2 turnovers for him. -24 in 24 minutes from him tonight.
Keyonte George had his worst game since becoming a starter tonight. 3-11, 1-5, 2-2 for 9 points, 2 assists, 2 turnovers, 3 rebounds. He put up the third most shots on the team tonight, which was surprising, but none of them really fell. After missing his first few looks, he deferred and passed up on easy/open looks until he built his confidence back up, which is something that I would like to see addressed. If it is open or a good look, I don’t care if you are 0-60, you’ve gotta take that shot.
A lot of people aren’t too happy with my personal assessment of Ochai Agbaji, but I’m going to reiterate that it is purely my opinion in watching 90+% of his games in the league. He is not starting SG/SF quality, and I don’t think he should be cracking the top 9 for our rotation. For a 3/D guy, I don’t see him hitting the 3 or getting the defensive stops. I’m surprised that he is still getting minutes, albeit it was 17 minutes tonight. He wasn’t even guarding LeBron, or DLo, he was guarding Max Christie and Taurean Prince. Not a good look for somebody who is supposed to be the point of attack defender. He finished with 0 points, 0-5 shooting, 0-3 from deep, 3 rebounds.
Again, my thoughts with Agbaji are purely my own. I don’t think he is quite the defender that some people think he is. He didn’t make it hard for KD/Booker, he wasn’t disrupting anybody’s rhythm, and it’s frustrating when he isn’t even included in a lot of offensive sets. He is just taking up minutes and occupies the corner.
Kelly Olynyk had back to back terrible games. 1-6, 0-4, 2-4 for 4 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists. 2 turnovers, 3 fouls in 24 minutes. While I think he adds a lot of value and versatility into our lineup, it hurts when he has off nights. We depend on him a little too much, and I think it is because of poor guard rotation.
Sexton was a bright spot offensively, 14 points on 6-11, 2-3 shooting, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 turnover in 22 minutes. But defensively, much like everybody on the jazz, couldn’t do a thing. Was getting caught up on screens, not rotating, collapsing when he didn’t need to, and going for bad gambles which left the jazz shorthanded some possessions. A decent chunk of his minutes were in garbage time, so his night wasn’t as impressive as the boxscore says.
THT had a god awful shooting game. Passing was fairly good though. 1-10 shooting, 0-5 from 3, 4-4 from the line. 6 points, 7 assists, 1 turnover. He had 3 rebounds and 2 steals. He has absolutely no discipline right now and it is so frustrating. He was our best playmaker by a mile tonight (mainly getting fourth quarter minutes where it didn’t matter as much), but he was the worst shooter on the floor out of both teams. That didn’t stop him from jacking up (tied for) the third most shots on the team tonight. So frustrating seeing him get insane tunnel vision and hero-ball minded.
Simone Fontecchio looked good offensively, even before garbage time. But, most of his minutes were in garbage time. 4-6, 3-5, 11 points, 4 rebounds in 27 minutes tonight. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I would rather have Tech start instead of Agbaji. To me, the defensive impact Agbaji has is negatively outweighed by his lack of offensive play that I would rather have Tech out there.
Garbage time minutes for Dunn, Samanic, and Yurtseven. Yurtseven had 18 points, 6 rebounds on 8-11 shooting, but all 17 minutes of his were straight up garbage time, when we were already down 25+.
Defense was such a big issue tonight. TNT showed a stat in the third quarter that all of LA’s points either came from the free throw line, in the paint, or from 3. We were eaten alive inside, being outscored 76-54 in the paint. We were outrebounded by 10, despite getting the offensive rebound advantage. We hit the same amount of 3’s, but shot just 38.8% from the field compared to 57% from the Lakers. We actually had less turnovers than the Lakers, but the Lakers shared the ball and had 35 assists compared to our 24.
We tried that same blitzing technique against KD/Booker from Friday/Sunday, but LeBron is such an insane playmaker that he made us pay every single time. Pair that with us not able to hit a shot, scoring just 17 points the first quarter, it was impossible from the beginning to claw back when we had a deficit. Hardy threw the towel in early, giving our starters some rest like 3 minutes into the second half.
I miss Kessler.
Oh well. 4-10, 2-2 in tourney play. Essentially knocked out.
Elkbowy
I’m just happy the jazz preserved their winning culture last year!!!!
DrewfromtheOffice
That was, perhaps, the ugliest game I’ve ever watched. Sat through the whole thing tho, let’s go Jazz!
coolguysteve21
Man this team looks like they have no structure and are in the middle of a rebuild.
Oh wait….
brosephsmith21
That was a rough watch. I’m literally dead.
Time-Ad-3134
The jazz are honestly so much better when the offense is built around lauri instead of guards constantly playing hero ball and shooting bad contested shots. Why doesn’t lauri get any plays run for him anymore?
FERFreak731
Trade everyone besides the players drafted this, and last year. Get firsts, if not seconds. Trade Lauri if the Jazz can do a trade similar to the Sabonis for Haliburton trade, like if Jalen Williams, or Jaden Ivey are available for trade.
I expected the team to not contend, but wow they are way worse. The only wins is because Westbrick decided to let us win, since we bought out his contract last season, a win against the hospital Trailblazers, and 2 wins against the hospital Grizzlies
cyianite
I thought I’m watching a retirement game for Lebron like the Jazz gave a tribute game to Kobe’s last game
Elkbowy
I’m sorry I love Hardy but I just can’t understand for the life of me how we still rely on so many THT and sexton minutes, obviously we have a guard problem but these guys are FAR from solving it and instead are taking minutes away from players we SHOULD be developing more
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GAME NOTES:
Well the Jazz are pretty much eliminated from the in-season tourney with this dreadful loss.
This was such an embarrassing game, and it sucks that it was on national TV. Nobody in our regular rotation was able to do anything offensively.
John Collins was the best starter tonight offensively, but was absolutely torn apart defensively. 15 points on 6-12, 2-5, 1-2 shooting with just 4 rebounds and a -29 in 25 minutes. Defensively, he couldn’t grab a board, he couldn’t box out, he couldn’t stop AD, or even communicate on switches. It was embarrassing.
Lauri Markkanen also didn’t play a perfect game. 4-10, 2-7, 8 rebouunds, 10 points in 22 minutes. He was able to get some boards, but he wasn’t able to stop AD down low, and the pick n roll with LeBron absolutely cooked Lauri & Collins.
Jordan Clarkson finally came back to earth, shooting 3-9, 0-3, 1-1 from the line for 7 points. 2 assists and 2 turnovers for him. -24 in 24 minutes from him tonight.
Keyonte George had his worst game since becoming a starter tonight. 3-11, 1-5, 2-2 for 9 points, 2 assists, 2 turnovers, 3 rebounds. He put up the third most shots on the team tonight, which was surprising, but none of them really fell. After missing his first few looks, he deferred and passed up on easy/open looks until he built his confidence back up, which is something that I would like to see addressed. If it is open or a good look, I don’t care if you are 0-60, you’ve gotta take that shot.
A lot of people aren’t too happy with my personal assessment of Ochai Agbaji, but I’m going to reiterate that it is purely my opinion in watching 90+% of his games in the league. He is not starting SG/SF quality, and I don’t think he should be cracking the top 9 for our rotation. For a 3/D guy, I don’t see him hitting the 3 or getting the defensive stops. I’m surprised that he is still getting minutes, albeit it was 17 minutes tonight. He wasn’t even guarding LeBron, or DLo, he was guarding Max Christie and Taurean Prince. Not a good look for somebody who is supposed to be the point of attack defender. He finished with 0 points, 0-5 shooting, 0-3 from deep, 3 rebounds.
Again, my thoughts with Agbaji are purely my own. I don’t think he is quite the defender that some people think he is. He didn’t make it hard for KD/Booker, he wasn’t disrupting anybody’s rhythm, and it’s frustrating when he isn’t even included in a lot of offensive sets. He is just taking up minutes and occupies the corner.
Kelly Olynyk had back to back terrible games. 1-6, 0-4, 2-4 for 4 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists. 2 turnovers, 3 fouls in 24 minutes. While I think he adds a lot of value and versatility into our lineup, it hurts when he has off nights. We depend on him a little too much, and I think it is because of poor guard rotation.
Sexton was a bright spot offensively, 14 points on 6-11, 2-3 shooting, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 turnover in 22 minutes. But defensively, much like everybody on the jazz, couldn’t do a thing. Was getting caught up on screens, not rotating, collapsing when he didn’t need to, and going for bad gambles which left the jazz shorthanded some possessions. A decent chunk of his minutes were in garbage time, so his night wasn’t as impressive as the boxscore says.
THT had a god awful shooting game. Passing was fairly good though. 1-10 shooting, 0-5 from 3, 4-4 from the line. 6 points, 7 assists, 1 turnover. He had 3 rebounds and 2 steals. He has absolutely no discipline right now and it is so frustrating. He was our best playmaker by a mile tonight (mainly getting fourth quarter minutes where it didn’t matter as much), but he was the worst shooter on the floor out of both teams. That didn’t stop him from jacking up (tied for) the third most shots on the team tonight. So frustrating seeing him get insane tunnel vision and hero-ball minded.
Simone Fontecchio looked good offensively, even before garbage time. But, most of his minutes were in garbage time. 4-6, 3-5, 11 points, 4 rebounds in 27 minutes tonight. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I would rather have Tech start instead of Agbaji. To me, the defensive impact Agbaji has is negatively outweighed by his lack of offensive play that I would rather have Tech out there.
Garbage time minutes for Dunn, Samanic, and Yurtseven. Yurtseven had 18 points, 6 rebounds on 8-11 shooting, but all 17 minutes of his were straight up garbage time, when we were already down 25+.
Defense was such a big issue tonight. TNT showed a stat in the third quarter that all of LA’s points either came from the free throw line, in the paint, or from 3. We were eaten alive inside, being outscored 76-54 in the paint. We were outrebounded by 10, despite getting the offensive rebound advantage. We hit the same amount of 3’s, but shot just 38.8% from the field compared to 57% from the Lakers. We actually had less turnovers than the Lakers, but the Lakers shared the ball and had 35 assists compared to our 24.
We tried that same blitzing technique against KD/Booker from Friday/Sunday, but LeBron is such an insane playmaker that he made us pay every single time. Pair that with us not able to hit a shot, scoring just 17 points the first quarter, it was impossible from the beginning to claw back when we had a deficit. Hardy threw the towel in early, giving our starters some rest like 3 minutes into the second half.
I miss Kessler.
Oh well. 4-10, 2-2 in tourney play. Essentially knocked out.
I’m just happy the jazz preserved their winning culture last year!!!!
That was, perhaps, the ugliest game I’ve ever watched. Sat through the whole thing tho, let’s go Jazz!
Man this team looks like they have no structure and are in the middle of a rebuild.
Oh wait….
That was a rough watch. I’m literally dead.
The jazz are honestly so much better when the offense is built around lauri instead of guards constantly playing hero ball and shooting bad contested shots. Why doesn’t lauri get any plays run for him anymore?
Trade everyone besides the players drafted this, and last year. Get firsts, if not seconds. Trade Lauri if the Jazz can do a trade similar to the Sabonis for Haliburton trade, like if Jalen Williams, or Jaden Ivey are available for trade.
I expected the team to not contend, but wow they are way worse. The only wins is because Westbrick decided to let us win, since we bought out his contract last season, a win against the hospital Trailblazers, and 2 wins against the hospital Grizzlies
I thought I’m watching a retirement game for Lebron like the Jazz gave a tribute game to Kobe’s last game
I’m sorry I love Hardy but I just can’t understand for the life of me how we still rely on so many THT and sexton minutes, obviously we have a guard problem but these guys are FAR from solving it and instead are taking minutes away from players we SHOULD be developing more
This is such an awful Jazz team
