Sacramento Kings - Utah Jazz Game Thread.

[nuraman00]

6 PM PST
7 PM MST

 

[MHSL82]

Do you know if there’s a deadline for ruling a player out in basketball? Is it that if you mark someone out, you can bring somebody in but if you say questionable you can’t? I know it’s a bigger deal in football, but there are gametime decisions, and the argument for that is to the let betters and opponents to kind of know what’s going on so that they can prepare, though there is gamesmanship so you don’t tell until the last minute sometimes.

 

[nuraman00]

Do you know if there’s a deadline for ruling a player out in basketball? Is it that if you mark someone out, you can bring somebody in but if you say questionable you can’t? I know it’s a bigger deal in football, but there are gametime decisions, and the argument for that is to the let betters and opponents to kind of know what’s going on so that they can prepare, though there is gamesmanship so you don’t tell until the last minute sometimes.

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I think you can change it as often as you want, until that deadline.

 

[nuraman00]

Sabonis misses a dunk, Olynyk 3-pointer.

15 - 27.

A double digit lead is nice.

 

[nuraman00]

16 - 38, late 1st.

 

[nuraman00]

19 - 40, end of the first.

How many times this year have the Jazz had had 21+ point lead at the end of the first?

 

[nuraman00]

First Colony Mortgage Family shooting contest:

* The boy misses the layup, he had two chances. It was his birthday.
* The mom misses the free throw.
* The dad misses the halfcourt shot.

Kind of a cool game, to have the whole family participate.

 

[nuraman00]

52 - 68, halftime.

I think the Jazz FG% wasn't good in the 2nd, without looking at stats.

 

[nuraman00]

Kings game back, it was a back and forth game from the end of the 3rd onwards, but the Jazz won.

I don't know whether to be happy at the win, or upset that they blew the lead.

I guess considering it was facing a good team, maybe be happier with the win.

BUT, they could have had a wire to wire win.

I guess I'd have to know, how many games have they had a 15 point lead, and lost it? If it's hardly any, then this is a good win.

If it's happened too many times, then it's something they have to improve on.

 

[MHSL82]

Kings game back, it was a back and forth game from the end of the 3rd onwards, but the Jazz won.

I don't know whether to be happy at the win, or upset that they blew the lead.

I guess considering it was facing a good team, maybe be happier with the win.

BUT, they could have had a wire to wire win.

I guess I'd have to know, how many games have they had a 15 point lead, and lost it? If it's hardly any, then this is a good win.

If it's happened too many times, then it's something they have to improve on.

We are a young team and so this happens and if it’s going to happen, I want to happen this year instead of other years. The fact that we are able to lose the lead and not lose, might be actually a positive thing for a young team. Again, this is with expectations low and this being a learning year. One wouldn’t want this with Denver like they have now. It would be a concern with title contending teams. But I think you’re always happy with the win, but you could be happier.

 

[nuraman00]

Is this a young team?

Main rotation players after trade deadline:

Clarkson - 9th year
Kessler - Rookie
Olynyk - 10th year
Agbaji - Rookie
Horton-Tucker - 4th year
Markkanen - 6th year
Sexton - 5th year
Dunn - 7th year

Today's starting lineup:

Olynyk, Kessler, Horton-Tucker, Agbaji, Fontecchio

Fontecchio is a rookie.

So this starting lineup did have 3 rookies.

According to Popcorn Machine, the bad lineup (-14 in the 3rd) was:

PopcornMachine's GameFlows - Sacramento Kings @ Utah Jazz - Mar 20, 2023

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Horton-Tucker, Olynyk, Fontecchio, Kessler, Agbaji.

So, I guess the lineup with three rookies.

But, they were also +11 in the first.

 

[MHSL82]

Is this a young team?

Yes.

 

[nuraman00]

Yes.

I think if you took the age of each player, weighted by how many minutes they played this season (the more minutes, the stronger the weight), then this would not be considered a young team.

If this was done for every team, and compared.

A young team probably has at least 3 players on rookie contracts being in the top 8 rotation, possibly more.

 

[nuraman00]

Plus, it sucks that the jazz owner and Ainge are BYU people.

Text message @MHSL82 sent to Ainge: "Agbaji is better than your kids."

The Former Jazzmen Thread

How close to Okur were you? Was he the car right in front of you? Fattening up on McDonalds at the drive-thru in the car in front of me… from downtown.

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[MHSL82]

 

[nuraman00]

Text message @MHSL82 sent to Ainge: "Agbaji is better than your kids."

The Former Jazzmen Thread

How close to Okur were you? Was he the car right in front of you? Fattening up on McDonalds at the drive-thru in the car in front of me… from downtown.

sportshoop.la

@MHSL82, bump? I was saving that jokes for weeks, until there was a game that I watched, and Agbaji had a good game.