Gobert has been pretty nasty this year

[durden_tyler]

Yeah, unfortunately for Utah this is the year when the Warriors are back so they'd have a tough time getting out of the West again.

Bad playoffs match-up vs. Golden State so they'd hope to draw Phoenix (better match-up) when postseason rolls and hope for the best when Warriors go small if and when they meet in the West Finals (where Gobert might struggle again)

[BoatsNZones]

Christian Wood is better.

Gobert has been a force and indeed the most important reason for their #2 SRS in the league.

He has been a force and indeed the most important reason for their playoffs eliminations in recent years

Your team might have a title if they had Gobert. As is, you have no title in site (I was actually high on Miami too. What an embarrassing season).

[MikeM]

4 out 1 in big getting spoon fed. Capela would put up the same offensive stats.

Doesn't ATL run 4 out with 1 big?

Not with the same players.

[Catchall]

If you look closely, you can see that he dribbles the ball a few times...

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Gobert has been a force and indeed the most important reason for their #2 SRS in the league.

He has been a force and indeed the most important reason for their playoffs eliminations in recent years

Your team might have a title if they had Gobert. As is, you have no title in site (I was actually high on Miami too. What an embarrassing season).

No one paying 40 for Gobert will have a title

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Brian Scalabrine has been holding forth all game tonight about how to attack Gobert. (As I type this, the Jazz/Celtics are tied 85-85 with 1/3 of the game left to go.)

His key point is that you should get Gobert involved in defending something in particular, then "play off" that. Coach Udoka has been playing Horford + Grant Williams when Gobert is on the floor, for obvious reasons of stretchiness. But Scal also praises guys who just challenge Gobert at the rim, especially Schroeder.

I'm not sure what well-supported Scal is making beyond "draw Gobert away from the basket with stretch bigs", but I thought I'd contribute it to this thread even so.

[NRSV]

He’s phenomenal

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Now Scal is drawing a distinction (using Terrance Mann in last year's playoffs as an example) between driving against Gobert and getting "into Gobert's body" along the way (which Gobert doesn't want) vs. letting Gobert wait and "meet you at the rim".

[Lockdown504090]

Now Scal is drawing a distinction (using Terrance Mann in last year's playoffs as an example) between driving against Gobert and getting "into Gobert's body" along the way (which Gobert doesn't want) vs. letting Gobert wait and "meet you at the rim".

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Still think rudys the best at what he does, but physicality does work against him.

[Karate Diop]

Gobert is nice. Until he's not.

[Lockdown504090]

Gobert is nice. Until he's not.

he is kinda like harden. he has a limited thing he does well on offense (switching defense in hardens case) and on the other end his team has a specific style because of him and they cant really do much else because they built an identity around that player being dominant. harden with the iso and gobert with the ability to cover ground.... but in a 2 week series its possible to plan around this style and counter it, to which their teams dont have the ability to do so because they went all in on optimizing a certain style.

[dautjazz]

People are going to be quick to just go by his playoff past, but Gobert has made HUGE strides this year.

[nzahir]

I feel like we do this every year and then a team like the clippers stretches out Utah and its game over

And then the even sadder part is Rudy can't even post up 6'6 guards

That LAC series was downright bad and embarrassing, especially w/o Kawhi

[Catchall]

Rudy's like--damn, my bum-ass teammates won't pick up the ball....

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