Was Frank injured again or just in Thibs’ dog house? Pretty insane that neither he nor DSJ could get ANY burn in a bench emptying fourteen point loss.

Thibs plays a tight rotation and Frank is not in it. He likely felt it would be embarrassing to have Frank come in just for garbage time, so he used Pinson instead, who can’t be insulted by garbage minutes.

the numbers are decent over this stretch and i think the evidence is clear but there will be plenty of time to go over that… here’s some eyetest stuff…

there’s a moment in every player’s development where the game sort of slows down for them… we are looking at obi who’s absolutely on the other side of that now… IQ too despite the hot shooting… and rj was for awhile this season and last….. everything looked like he was a half a step slow… both in his play and reactions.. the sixer game if you get to watch it again it was very apparent there especially when he was matched up against simmons.. rj was seriously overwhelmed….

but once the magic game came around…. there was this sequence in the third qtr.. he was playing great and then he got the ball in the open court and at that moment he had like 4 or 5 defenders in the vicinity and it felt like no one was going to stop him… and then he got called for a bs offensive foul… that was from my view a turning point where he was now imposing his will onto the game…

and he’s been doing it ever since… the way he’s finishing is just a lot more stronger and SMARTER takes to the rim… and he’s doing it in a variety of ways… he’s making much quicker decisions.. and it’s usually the right ones…

and most importantly he isn’t forcing it… 11 shots in 40 minutes is probably the lowest he’s ever had in his entire life… that’s a far cry from the chucker we saw at duke…

his game is maturing.. and i hate to jinx it but i’m confident enough to now say that he’s doing exactly what he needs to do and progressing in the areas that are crucial to his development… and that could mean big things.. how big we’ll see next year but we have something now..

Jazz have SO many shooters, besides Gobert and Favors, is there anyone who can’t knock down 3’s?

There was a great article about how it all came about from Bogdanovic breaking his hand. Snyder realized that they had come to rely on Bogdanovic too much for the team’s three-point shooting, so he decided to use Bogdanovic’s absence to make everyone else on the team start shooting threes to make up for Bogdanovic’s absence and the result has turned them into an entire team of three-point shooters.

thenoblefacehumper:
The annoying this is I don’t know whether losses make the front office think “okay, maybe we shouldn’t be buyers after all” or “damn, we would’ve pulled this out if we had Derrick Rose”

I know we need guards who can break down a defense consistently and be a threat from outside, but yeah I’m a no on bringing him back.