Jazz vs Timberwolves Feb 25th minimalist game thread

[schneiderjazz]

Brewer having a great 4th so far. Miller picking up his 5th certainly won't hurt us.

[Pai Gow]

I love Deron's power layup, unstoppable

[The Sheik]

Eventually E23 has to give Ronnie some love

[xstockholmsyndromex]

Well, at least we finished the game strong.

[The Sheik]

You cant get made at a:

13 13 and 5 night from Deron. Low TOs and even got a block.

[Hikari]

Gj finishing the game.

[Pai Gow]

Nice, 69 points in the second half, offensively we're obviously seeing the positives of having Booz back (and he isn't really doing all he can which is gonna make us even more potent). But defensively, its gonna be ugly. If they could just stay in front of their guy and rotate, they'd actually be okay, I just don't understand why they cannot do the basics together..

However, I'd say the power of our bench cancels out the weakness of our defense when we're healthy.

[schneiderjazz]

It's so good to have everyone back. Even with Boozer rusty and Deron having a bad shooting night, we had a lot of other guys to pick up the slack. AK and Korver kept us in the game in the 1st half and Memo and Brewer were amazing in the 2nd half. Nice win.

[xstockholmsyndromex]

You cant get made at a:

13 13 and 5 night from Deron. Low TOs and even got a block.

I would have liked to see him score more....he needs some more 30 point games if he is going to get his average up over 20 ppg.

[HammerDunk]

OMG! Korver gave us +33 in that game! WOW!!! I have loved his effort lately, you can see that he feels much better shooting the ball and he hustles so hard! Love to see him playing hard. I hope we keep up shooting over 80% from FT, I think that is very key to our success.

Nice game, I thought for sure this was a trap game that we would have a hard time with. Glad to see them own the 4th quarter, something we didn't do last year on the road.

[Racer X]

Weird game. Korver lights out in the first half. 0fer in the 2nd half. Brewer 0fer in the first, 20 points in the 2nd half.

[carrottop12]

Didn't get to watch it, and it doesn't sounds like it was the prettiest game, but at least we won, far better then a loss.

[Reckless]

Didn't get to watch it, and it doesn't sounds like it was the prettiest game, but at least we won, far better then a loss.

It was back and forth. Boler called it a "ping pong match" through the majority of the game
At one point we were getting dominated in the points in the paint. But the 4th quarter we took control..our defensive effort could have been better, but a win is a win

[seejaydeja]

Whew, that was close, classic Jazz though. **** around until they realize that they might actually lose, then shut it down in the last 3 minutes of the game.

[erudite23]

I was very disappointed in Deron's approach to the game.

He needs to maintain his scoring mentality with Boozer back and only slowly dial it down once its obvious that getting others the ball is the better option. Instead it looked like he was just "Oh, Carlos is back, /defer." I hope it was just one game.

Aside from that....you have to be at least a little encouraged that we won. After all, every single win on the road is a precious thing. We've been beaten by every concievable quality of opponent in every conceivable manner on the road this year, so even if we beat Sacto on a buzzer beater from half court its a big win.

But the problem with that logic is this: all year long we've been taking that approach because the team isn't at full strength. The assumption is that we will get everyone back, get on a roll, and then our performance on the road will improve to the point where we can expect to win more than we lose, and that we will take care of business against the bad teams. Now that we have begun to hit our stride, if we continue to struggle on the road against bad teams, this season is just a dead man walking. It doesn't mean anything. To see us get beat down in the 1st quarter like that, and then struggle to maintain a lead all game long the way we did, I was just disappointed. I really was.

But we did win, and we did ultimately put the nail in the coffin. We didn't limp to the finish line like we usually do on the road. I hope that is a sign of improvement to come.

But we must be clear. If we don't start winning convincingly on the road, we are just a tough out in the 1st or 2nd round for a real contender. No more. And that would really hurt, were it the case.

[Lava Rock Kid]

I think if the wolves hadnt played the night before we would of lost this game

[jazzed77]

They have been tuff aganst a few teams ths year just dnt have the wns t shw t