Here's what really gets me sometimes. JVG will sit the younger players on bench for a teeny weeney mistake they make but the veterans like Rafer Alston, Juwan Howard, and Ryan Bowen will get extended minutes. Even if those veterans CONSISTENTLY screw up and play bad. Why not just put the young players in and let them learn from those mistakes? Hell I would rather feel the pain of Novak, Hayes, and Baklava making mistakes than see Rafer spit out another ball, and make a boneheaded play. Atleast those young players can grow and learn from their mistakes. Rafer and JVG's ex-veteran players are "have beens." They are not gonna improve no matter how much you play them, and even if they do, the returns are not gonna be anything close to what you will get from the young ones. Practice experience is NOTHING compared to the game expereince. Young players need game experience!! But apparently JVG likes to make decision based on his practices. Throw Vspan out to the wolves and let him learn his way around DAMMIT!
Trust? Novak wasn't doing anything on the court and the opponent's lead was only widening. They stopped the bleeding when he was out. Check out the +/- for the game, my guess is Novak was a negative.
Novak was -8 for the game. Padgett was -2. Luther Head, in only 12 minutes, was -14 (still in a funk, apparently). And Snyder, interestingly, was -16 (he played pretty much the whole game, except the second half of the second quarter and the first half of the third quarter). game flow
as i suspected hayes & yao = team negative padgett was only a team negative whenever deke or head were subbed in.
Well, they were on the court for about 3 minutes together. Rockets scored 5, Jazz scored 7. That's hardly conclusive of anything. In fact, last season in 105 minutes the Rockets were overwhelmingly ahead (+16.9 per 48 minutes) with both Hayes and Yao on the court together.
I don't know why JVG change his lineup every time. The lineup changed almost every game in preseason.
Well, the team lost by 10, so most players are in the negative territory, and notice ALL Jazz players are in the positive. Here's 82games.com's version, where guys were compared relative to team average, and on a per 100 posession basis: http://www.82games.com/0607/0607HOU.HTM Of course, a 1 game data has a lot of "noise", but it confirms what I said, the Jazz were generally widening their lead with Novak on the floor. They were not good with Padgett, but not as bad as Novak. Battier had a positive +/-. Having him in early foul trouble sapped the team of a lot of energy. Same goes with Yao. They need to figure out how to work with while happy refs. Snyder overall was a negative, but it seemed he disappeard to start the game and played better in the 2nd half. As much as people b**** about McGrady and Rafer's shooting, McGrady had the HIGHEST +/- on the team and Alston was the 3rd highest (crappy in the first, but instrumental in narrowing the gap later in the game). They were not the guys to blame.
JVG's substitution patterns last year seemed erratic and illogical most of the season. And it continued in this game. I actually believe in the preseason games, when he was "trying out" players off the bench he did a better job with substitution. I don't exactly understand why Padgett was given so many minutes, why Howard and Vspan didn't even make it into the game, or why Chuck and Novak weren't intersperse more into the game to give the starters more breathing space. Especially since for a good portion of the game we had foul issues inside. Wouldn't it be logical to rotate people in and out and cut down on those fouls. Players are more likely to foul on defense if they are tired so giving them breaks will cut down on that fatigue. Maybe JVG was too busy watching the game to think about who on his bench could give his guys a break.
I feel your pain, but believe me Novak will play more than Padgett in other games. He used Padgett because he is stronger and a better rebounder than Novak. Novak would have gotten killed by guarding Boozer on defense and rebounding. The Jazz have a rare frountcourt with good length and strength. They are probably one of the best frontcourts in the league when healthy. I also think this is why Mutombo played so much. I like both players but they don't bring enough offensively to merit playing more than 10 minutes. Padgett never shoots when he should. I just hope that we get more favorable matchups where Novak can come in and play 15 minutes and get in a rythym and drain some 3's. Also, I hope Hayes has more favorable matchups too so Mutombo doesn't have to miss wide open dunks again. Also, JUST PLAY BONZI!!!! He makes our team so much better and deeper just by standing on the court. Even if he hasn't played in 5 years and is in horrible shape, he is still the third most talented player on our team(maybe tied with Battier) and one of our best rebounders and competitors. Enough venting for now, I am just eager to see Bonzi play and how we utilize him. Wouldn't be surprised if he plays some PF from time to time because he is so strong.
I am not up with all of these ratings but do assists and low turnovers play a big part in their rating. For example, TMac had an amazing night passing the ball with 9 assists and 1 TO. I assume that is why he had the highest +/-? As for Rafer his overall game really was not that bad as other people seem to think. Some people just hate the guy and will never get over it. I can understand complaining about his defense as a reason for the loss but his offense was no reason to bring the guillotine out.
What's JVD's problem? He is a stereo-typed coach who doesn't know how to utilize what you have and what your players are good at. He only sees what he wants to. Look at Suns, whoever they acquire, he becomes a star.
from what i understand, these aren't "ratings." these are point differentials for when those players were on the court. for example, if padgett was -2, that means that, over the course of the total minutes he played, we were outscored by 2 by the Jazzholes. right?
We should all understand JVG is going to take a little while before he figures out his rotation. But really did anyone else notice how Padgett had open shots and wouldn't take them. Isn't this something JVG harped on in the preseason for people to take open shots if they have them.
I'm sure JVG got on him for that after the game. He passed up at least two wide open threes to my knowledge. Those were shots that could have gotten us back into the game.
