Triple Team: Jazz open advance shooting from 3-point range; Mie Oni Attracts (Rick Egan | Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz Guard Mie Oni (81) takes the ball inside, as does Phoenix Suns center Damien Jones (30) defending the U.N. . , Saturday, December 12, 2020. | December 13, 2020, 5:47 am | Updated: 5:54 am Three thoughts on Utah Jazz’s 119-105 victory over Phoenix Suns from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larson.1. Jazz picked up a bundle, and of course it would be foolish to make big decisions from a pre-season game that would fit this season just like the rest. It’s a game – in fact, only half of the opening players played – in one half, anything can happen. In particular, players ask Queen Snyder shortly after a three-hour workout that if they want to keep him happy, be sure to attack those key features. In particular, the Jazz took 31 triples in the first half of tonight’s game, compared to only 18 doubles. They averaged 38.7% on 12 of those 31 triples or 1.16 points to hold those shots. Jazz takes it! Jazz used various techniques to obtain these trinities. One thing is simple: push the ball to the ground. Once, after a missed Phoenix free throw, Donovan Mitchell caught the ball and immediately went fast in the change and drew the defense. Joe Inks pointed to Jordan Clarkson to go around the corner, and he knocked only a few seconds from the wide open three-shot clock. You can see the leadership in that play to change the direction of Snyder on the ground. : Fourth-year defender Mitchell uses immediate pressure and senior Inks leave the ball. Bojan Boktanovic explained the strategy: “We had two players who finished over 40% in the catch-shoot and transition threes. I think Joe led the league in the first five seconds of the attack, ”Boktanovic said. “It’s good for our team, we have to rely on ourselves to take those early shots. Sometimes it’s not going to be a ‘good’ shot, but it’s a big part of what we’re trying to do this season.” Snyder is clear that Bogdanovic wants to take any fair look out of the three, he did it tonight, he made two of six, Clarkson surpassed him, took 10 of his 15 shots beyond the curve, Clarkson made five of them, and He was the game’s leading scorer, a step up for a guy who had already made a big improvement in the number of triples he could take. 47% of his appearance. I would not be shocked to see Clarkson getting more than 50% of the curves in his shots this year. That’s a good thing: it opens up space for others, keeps Clarkson efficient, and minimizes some of the nonsense of his other midrange efforts. Without a summer league, there is a precious little chance to evaluate some players on the list. In particular, the inability to provide time and training opportunities for the likes of Utoka Asuyubuyk, Elijah Hughes, Mie Oni, Jarrell Brandley, Juan Morgan, Trent Forrest, and Nigel Williams-Kose is a shame. do.Miye Oni had the opportunity to go into the first half cycle tonight, thanks to Royce O’Neill sitting in the game. Snyder threw him into the fire to see what he could do, defending Devin Booker. At first, it went bad. Oni was defeated by Booker in two good moves, like this one – Oni focused a little on hand tricks, threw, and then Lucky Booker got the layout not done.But beyond that in the second quarter, it really improved. It was a good possession, in my opinion: maintaining contact with the booker, but keeping his hands well out of the cookie jar, giving no reason to make a false call to the referees, and forcing a tough look. I thought he did a good job. Sometimes when you are an athlete like Mie, you can be very aggressive. Someone who has a hard time defending Booker because he is so good at drawing mistakes. I thought Mie was decent in how he defended him, and that’s what we asked him to do, and he’s trying to do that, ”Snyder said. “There are opportunities like this where he has that opportunity. He took advantage of it. We want him to continue to do that.” Oni is ready to take the place of a spin that goes into the regular season, but the signed Shock Harrison cuts it short – Harrison is the longest-serving NBA of NBA defensive success. But there will be plenty of nights like this this NBA season as well, where for one reason a wing can’t play in the cycle. Joe Ings, Mike Conley and Bojan Boktanovic are over 30 years old, sometimes someone gets a Govt-19, and so on. Oni will be asked to contribute and he did not see the place in that situation. While we’re here, let’s talk about how some more marginal players looked in their first public action in a little while. • Utoga Asupoyke is what you expect. He’s great, very excited to block everything, and has won once or twice in amazing style. I mean, this is a Jeremy Evans volume. But there were also times when enthusiasm drove him out of office, which led to Phoenix’s easy withdrawal or dismissal. He struggled a little bit around the perimeter. Like Mitchell Robinson in New York, he’s got a good shot to lead the league once a minute, but it takes a while to be a real attacking player on defense. Elijah Hughes was soft and very defensive in attack. You never wanted to say that you were put through the ringer by Langston Galloway, but when Galloway earned one and one for the 3-pointer, that’s what happened. But I liked Hughes’ offense, in particular, he wanted to get three people out of the catch immediately and get two feet behind. I continue to love Juan Morgan because the guy makes good decisions all the time. He is not a good athlete, but he plays within himself, regenerates, and passes the ball very well. Tonight, 3 balls went down – he scored 11 points in a 3-4 3-point shootout. If it was a weapon, he would have stayed in the league. N Intel, who was out of the Nigel Williams-Cosil camp, could not have been worse – I have heard disappointing things about his early contributions this year. In the first few minutes he worked tonight, it was tough: missed cycles, bad attack mistakes and general ac. He then turned it around, made his triples and came back to the free-throw line, finishing with 15 points in 15 minutes. It’s a quiet 15 points, but 15 points is 15 points! I still hope he faces an uphill battle to create a regular season list, but we’ll see.
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