25 November, 2008

Disheartening Buzzer Beater, Hughes Silenced Jazz (9-6) at Home

Jazz Game,

- Hughes got lucky rebound, nice pump-fake thought...

- Our D on Pick-and-Roll needs to be a bit tougher, Derrick Rose often got plenty of spaces after the pick

- To sum up, nothing wrong in the offense in Q4, but the D should be better

- Okur is back!

- Watch what Coach Sloan, CJ and Knight said after the game - link.

Teams struggling with injury will benefit in Season End?

- Look at Spurs, without two killing weapons - Parker and Ginobili, they are initially struggling, and then they do better than most would have expected (including me) in recent games. The recent "surge" of Spurs could be explained by the more playing mins of Roger Mason, a very capable perimeter shooter (and Sixth Man if Spurs is healthy), and rookie George Hill, no one pays much attention on him when Spurs is healthy. Now, the playing opportunity has already sharpened these two players. They can well replace the roles of Finley, Udoka, etc...

- Same applies on Jazz. Our injury situation couldn't be worse at the beginning of the season. D Will, Boozer, AK, Korver, Harpring, Brevin Knight, and Okur has been back to Turkey for a week. This gives opportunity for CJ, Koufos, Price, Millsap and Brewer more playing time, and getting more seasoned. Now, Jazz simply has the deepest bench in the league.

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