Quick Recap: Game 16 FINAL SCORE Toronto Raptors 111 – Utah Jazz 106

2011-2012 season
Hayward .398(fg) .265(3fg) .738(FT)
Howard .409(fg) .182(3fg) .889(FT)
C.J. .374(fg) .300(3fg) .755(FT)
Bell .459(fg) .355(3fg) 1.00!(FT)
Burks .410(fg) .250(3fg) .742(FT)

It’s a miracle that we’re 10-6

also…are you sure you can find five Jazz players for the quintet?…the Jazz played basketball tonight like a middle school band plays music. (besides Millsap)

At the end of last season, Hayward developed some confidence playing the SG position, because he had a length advantage. He doesn’t have that at the SF position.

The Jazz certainly did not have the team’s best five players out on the floor during overtime. Hayward looked completely lost. I thought that CJ played well enough in the third and fourth quarters to deserve some minutes in overtime over Hayward. Other than Millsap (and Harris on occasion), I thought the Jazz had noone in the game in the overtimes who wanted to try to score. Raja and Hayward looked like they were playing “hot potato” with the ball—trying to get rid of it before they might be forced to take a shot as the clock was winding down. Even Harris looked like he did not want to take responsibility for scoring, even though he was having his game of the season.

When the Jazz got the ball with about ten seconds left in the second overtime, I expected Harris to dribble down quickly and throw up a 3-point attempt, and yet he seemed reluctant to do so.

I thought Corbin did a poor job in this game with his substitutions in the late 1st quarter and early 2nd quarter. He allowed the Jazz to piss away an 18 point lead without taking a time out or substituting in players to try to stop the Raptors runs. He just let the second stringers fritter away the lead.

I also thought that Corbin should have pulled Hayward early in the first overtime to see if CJ had any offense left in him. The starters looked very scared in the overtime, except Millsap, especially on offense. I think CJ could have provided just enough offense to help the Jazz win. Hayward looked awful in both overtimes, and did everything in his power to help the Jazz lose.

In that stretch between the 1st and 2nd quarters and in the two overtimes, I thought Corbin looked like he was coaching a pre-season game—letting an arbitrary group of players stay in the game to see if they could pull it out and perhaps gain some confidence in the process, rather than playing the players that would give the Jazz the best chance to win.

I think a lot of the responsibility for this loss has to be given to Corbin for his failure to fix the bad lineups in the late 1st and early 2nd quarters and in the two overtimes. If Corbin would have fixed those bad lineups, even Toronto’s lucky shooting (and Harris’ awful free throw shooting) late in the game wouldn’t have mattered.

but man, what a disgusting loss. Looked like the team from the first 3 games out there. No hustle and seems like guys were just chucking shots after that first quarter.

I love G Time, but he shouldn’t be starting. At least not at the 3, but I doubt that Raja will be losing the starting 2 spot after all his recent play. Let him come off the bench as a 3, or as the 2, and maybe try and get Burks more minutes playing point. See how well he does as the primary ballhandler and distributor.

Tough loss, and I’ll see ya’ll friday.

first let me say that i don’t care for entire squad substitutions all at once anyway. clearly corbin should have seen what was happening in the 2nd quarter and used timeouts and reinsertion of starters to stem the toronto tide. why he didn’t give burks some burn guarding barbarosa puzzles me.

in particular, harris had an incredible first 8 min of the game. when he was replaced he would sit for 12 actual min of game time coming back in with 4 to play in the 2nd qtr. why in the hell was he sitting as toronto came all the way back from an 18 pt deficit?

al probly would have made a differance. but the reason they lost wasen’t because he wasen’t playing. we have known from day one they need a wing that can shoot still do. if harris could pick it up and they could get a wing they could make some noise .maby the commish would trade eric gordan for harris before eric walks at the end of the year.