"You Gotta Love It Baby" Official Jazz thread

[falafel]

The path the Finals is clearing for the Utah Jazz....

Kawhi out indefinitely with a knee injury late in game 4. Not playing tonight and national pundits are declaring the Clippers season over.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kawhi-leonard-acl-injury-update-clippers-star-to-miss-game-5-against-jazz-out-indefinitely/

Chris Paul tested positive for COVID and has entered the health and safety protocols. Out indefinitely, but could be back as soon as Sunday if he was vaccinated. Some reports are unclear on that, while another one said he got Pfizer in February. If he shows any symptoms, he'll have to be quarantined regardless of vaccination, I read.

https://arizonasports.com/story/2691223/suns-chris-paul-tests-positive-covid-19-health-safety-protocols/

[falafel]

The Athletic is reporting no Conley for game 4.

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Not surprised.

I know everyone wants Mike back as soon as possible, and the team would take him tonight if he were ready. But maybe there is a thought that we can get passed the Clippers without Conley, but we will need Mike to get passed the Suns.

[BigPiney]

Gonna wear my clippers shirt tonight!

[Pelado]

Conley presently listed as Questionable. No word on Mitchell.

The Athletic is reporting no Conley for game 4.

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[Commando]

Conley presently listed as Questionable. No word on Mitchell.

No mention of Mitchell because he's fine.

[Donuthole]

Any word yet on availability of Mitchell and Conley?

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Conley presently listed as Questionable. No word on Mitchell.

[Pelado]

Any word yet on availability of Mitchell and Conley?

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[Eddie]

Hope I’m wrong, but this feels like the game where the Clips blow the Jazz out and then the media narrative is about how Utah’s two wins were nail biters, and this was a blow out, so Clips are gonna roll the rest of the series.

Then Utah wins game 4.

I would've preferred a win last night, but as a second option - I'll take this.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Hope I’m wrong, but this feels like the game where the Clips blow the Jazz out and then the media narrative is about how Utah’s two wins were nail biters, and this was a blow out, so Clips are gonna roll the rest of the series.

Then Utah wins game 4.

We are coming back in the second half.

[Donuthole]

Hope I’m wrong, but this feels like the game where the Clips blow the Jazz out and then the media narrative is about how Utah’s two wins were nail biters, and this was a blow out, so Clips are gonna roll the rest of the series.

Then Utah wins game 4.

[YOhio]

Went to the game last night and it was incredible. So good to be back in a packed arena. Jazz fans are a unique breed, an endearing/annoying combination of the BYU fan (whiny persecution complex), Aggie fan (angry grudge holding), and Ute fan (aggressive boorishness). But we’re loud and fun!

[Donuthole]

Kennard might've been in there to give some scoring, but they sure didn't act like it. The one shot he takes all night is when one of the stars drives, defense collapses, and the driver throws it to Kennard in the corner for an open three - that he hits. So now I'm thinking "Great - now they're going to get him going too" - and that was the only time they went to him. Weird.

I'm glad the Jazz figured out how to pull out the win in spite of the sudden zone defense throwing them for a loop. Now that they've seen it, it gives them time to figure it out before the next game.

Utah missed a bunch of open shots early in the Zone D switch. If they hit a couple of those, LA comes right back out of it. But they also passed on a lot of good shots early in the offense when LA went to the zone. And that is where I suspect they’ll improve with some practice.

Re the Lue discussion above, he is not a good coach. But he has designed some pretty nifty plays out of timeouts in both games. I’ll give him credit for that.

I was not a fan of Utah’s offense in the last 3 minutes. Run the clock down and get a low % contested shot is not way to play not to lose (and often, lose). Hope we don’t see that again.

[Eddie]

Kennard might've been in there to give some scoring, but they sure didn't act like it. The one shot he takes all night is when one of the stars drives, defense collapses, and the driver throws it to Kennard in the corner for an open three - that he hits. So now I'm thinking "Great - now they're going to get him going too" - and that was the only time they went to him. Weird.

I'm glad the Jazz figured out how to pull out the win in spite of the sudden zone defense throwing them for a loop. Now that they've seen it, it gives them time to figure it out before the next game.

[Moliere]

They had to score points. Kennard gives you a better chance of doing that. You aren’t really shutting down Mitchell, so take that out of the equation.

I guess it’s a risk/reward scenario and it just seems to me that the evidence is that kennard isn’t scoring much late in games and he’s also giving up easy points on the other end. But there’s a reason I’m on my couch during the game and not on the clippers bench…

I do love seeing the clippers lose and seeing Balmer lose. They were supposed to be a super team and they are realizing the playoff P is a dud. I suspect playoff P will go off for 40+ in either game 3 or 4 but then he’ll be one of the reason the clippers lose this series.


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[smokymountainrain]

falafel has a point, but lue really is terrible.