Golanator wrote:Hate playing @ Utah. They’re always so good up there, feel like they never miss a 3 either.
That said, we definitely can do it. OKC almost knocked them off last night. They are gettable but we need Booker and CP3 to be better than they have been, at least when it comes to scoring the ball and not turning it over so much (Book)
Utah is always a tough team, but I think with our full roster finally playing, we have some serious advantages against them. This is a game where I feel like we can play Saric, Crowder and Kaminsky to pull Gobert out of the middle more, turn him into a perimeter defender. Yes, you're giving up something at the other end, but Gobert isn't exactly an incredibly offensive threat. We also are SO deep. The fact that E'Twuan Moore is currently our 13th man is pretty impressive. And the fact that we have a lot of different combinations we can play together just makes our bench a nightmare to play against. We saw that last night agains the Pelicans. I know some are going to say that the Pelicans had a terrible night from 3 (3-24), but even if they had gone a respectable 10-24 from deep, we'd still have won that game. They scored 28 bench points, we scored 47. If we can outscore another team's bench by 15-20 on the regular, winning is going to be pretty standard.