Game 78: Utah Jazz (43-33) @ Minnesota Timberwolves (44-33) - 7:00 PM ET

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

Rubio just looks more aggressive offensively

its a night where his line drive shots are going in. nothing we can do

That's why I keep saying Tyus has to be a threat offensively. Nothing wrong with him moving the ball but he's not really looking to shoot.

I agree with you about Rubio shots going in. Just think Tyus needs to be a little more aggressive

Do you really think a non scorer like Tyus establishing his mark on the game offensively by scoring is something we want to do?

[Domejandro]

Ricky has twice the threes that the entire Minnesota team has.

Maybe the problem wasn’t Ricky specifically, but rather the byproduct of an inefficient offense that values isolation basketball over the featuring of your efficient players?

Yes because Ricky hits 3s like this with any regularity.

If you think I am praising Ricky’s shooting with that statement, you are completely misreading it. If anything, I’m using his poor shooting to explain to people how bad our offense is.

[FargoWolf]

Missing Teague's quickness against Ricky, he would put him to work on defense.

[Mattya]

Ricky has twice the threes that the entire Minnesota team has.

Maybe the problem wasn’t Ricky specifically, but rather the byproduct of an inefficient offense that values isolation basketball over the featuring of your efficient players?

Yes because Ricky hits 3s like this with any regularity.

If you think I am praising Ricky’s shooting with that statement, you are completely misreading it. If anything, I’m using his poor shooting to explain to people how bad our offense is.

So our offense has been bad every year Rubio has been in the league?

[theGreatRC]

Belly needs more minutes & needs to be on Ingles full time. Why Thibs kept Jamal on Joe for so long..we'll never know

[CP1981]

its a night where his line drive shots are going in. nothing we can do

That's why I keep saying Tyus has to be a threat offensively. Nothing wrong with him moving the ball but he's not really looking to shoot.

I agree with you about Rubio shots going in. Just think Tyus needs to be a little more aggressive

Do you really think a non scorer like Tyus establishing his mark on the game offensively by scoring is something we want to do?

Considering the lack of offense outside of Wiggins, I don't see how it would hurt. Even Jim Pete has mentioned that Tyus has to be a threat to shoot/score. I'm not saying he has to start chucking but he isn't even looking at the rim

[PharmD]

Ricky has twice the threes that the entire Minnesota team has.

Maybe the problem wasn’t Ricky specifically, but rather the byproduct of an inefficient offense that values isolation basketball over the featuring of your efficient players?

Yes because Ricky hits 3s like this with any regularity.

He's not THAT bad of a three point shooter. He's better than Wiggins or Tyus (or Crawford now) for example.

[Mattya]

Ricky has twice the threes that the entire Minnesota team has.

Maybe the problem wasn’t Ricky specifically, but rather the byproduct of an inefficient offense that values isolation basketball over the featuring of your efficient players?

Yes because Ricky hits 3s like this with any regularity.

He's not THAT bad of a three point shooter. He's better than Wiggins or Tyus (or Crawford now) for example.

You think those guys haven’t been bad from 3 this season? Yes Rubio is still a bad shooter.

[CP1981]

Thunder winning right now too

[PharmD]

The problem was the bench getting killed. Not sure how to remedy that as our bench is just terrible. Bench is basically:

Is Crawford on fire?
Yes-things will be kind of okay
No-yer gonna get killed

[Calinks]

Bjelly badly needs to get involved. Got to start using him like a vital offensive piece as oppsed to some spot up Fred Hoiberg esque guy.

[Murphs56]

There's no way Mitchell and Ingles don't play much better than they did in the first half.

[TheDominator273]

The problem was the bench getting killed. Not sure how to remedy that as our bench is just terrible. Bench is basically:

Is Crawford on fire?
Yes-things will be kind of okay
No-yer gonna get killed

Remedy it by not giving Crawford a Curryesque green light and implementing and actual system on offense other than watch Jamal throw up bad shot after bad shot.

Yes I know sometimes he gets hot and those drop, but they are still bad shots and I cringe every time he throws one up.

[CP1981]

Still don't understand how Brown has not been giving a chance. If he just keeps his man in front of him, it's better than what Jamal is giving. His inability to keep his man in front of him just collapses the defense and forces guys to help and the Wolves don't do a good job of rotating so guys get open looks.

[Calinks]

Holy crap Jazz have a effective FG of 60 percent!

[Mattya]

Need to play smarter defense, and someone other than Kat or Wiggins to bring offense.

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

There's no way Mitchell and Ingles don't play much better than they did in the first half.

Mitchell didnt play good at all IMO...and we're still down 11

[CP1981]

See, take that shot Tyus

[CP1981]

Rubio killing you guys

[Mattya]

Lol what is kat doing?