Donovan Mitchell tonight: 26pts on 8/24 shooting, 1 assist, 7 turnovers, +/- of -16
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Posted Jan 8, 2019, 3:20 AM UTC
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Yeah, went very cold in second half but continues to be literally the only offensive option for the jazz, besides jae crowder and Kyle Korver, we need a second scorer bad
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I mean Ingles 'should' be scoring better. Gobert 'should' be a scoring option under the rim. Exum, Rubio, Crowder, Korver can all score. Seems to be they don't have anyone to step up in big moments and they leave that to Mitchell.
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jabari parker when
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He's a young guard who's the 1st option, he's gonna take a lot of shots. it's what the Jazz need
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No one is saying he shouldn't, theyre saying he should make more, not have a 50% TS on the season
He was a first option last season and Jazz lacked scorers, he had a 54% TS
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of course he gotta make more but who else taking them?
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No one is saying he shouldn't
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andrew wiggins with a good rookie season
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Oh cmon he fucking killed us three of the four quarters today, our defence was based in stopping Mitchell in the fourth, Donovan is a baller don’t disrespect
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Thank you. He was great until then. And then giannis turned it on
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i’m a mitchell fan but I love trashing players after a bad game regardless of who it is. it’s purely for comedic purposes
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wow that's a great attitude!
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Well shit, you better be shit talking Middleton next time he doesn't show up to a game.
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low blow
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At least Wiggie won ROTY
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lmao I love mitchell but whenever I see a post on this sub with a player’s poor stat line I can’t help but trash them
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I mean, his stats look ugly, but watching Mitchell play, he looks better than Wiggins. He does have to get better at creating easy shots and passing, though, he definitely is too reliant on difficult jumpers. Some of that is Utah’s offense, but some of that is also him.
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at least wiggins won the ROY
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Goddamn
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I'm not sure how many posts in here are just memeing, but Mitchell is for sure a significantly more skilled and intelligent player than McLemore.
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Andrew Wiggins with a handle 🤷🏾♂️
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andrew wiggins with an adidas hoodie??
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I had no idea that Wiggins was 23. Makes it even funnier that everyone on this sub thinks he's a bust
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At one point he was like 6-9 from 3. Dude was absolutely on fire the first half. Got shut down in the second half, but I don't think he played that bad. Bucks just made a good adjustment at half
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And nobody else on the jazz was an offensive threat. Painful to watch
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Could we not do this after every game?
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Tyreke without the ROY trophy
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Ah yes let's poll everyone and see who they would take
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He was shitting on us in the first half, but he totally lost it in the 4th. Feel like he’d be an amazing second option or maybe 1a/1b, but he absolutely can not carry an offence by himself, he tries to do too much and he ends up making bad decisions and taking bad shots.
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Your right about him not being able to carry an offense by himself. But the bad shots/ bad decisions really came from knowing that he was our only hope of scoring. Everybody else was terrible
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He had a terrible fourth quarter.
He made some nice passes todays with bad misses by the jazz.
A lot of those shots are just ugly contested shots in the paint he takes because no one else on the jazz are making and creating off the dribble.
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He made a ton of good passes in the first 30 minutes of the game
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Lmao no one gives a shit when he plays well and efficient like the last two games. Y’all need to chill out. If he chucks everyone trashes. If he plays passive and efficient everyone says he needs to be more aggressive. Chill the fuck out it’s his second year. He’s not Lebron James
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Is this mainly because defenses can strictly focus on him? I haven't watched mainly Utah Jazz games.
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lol.. this mitchell slander will come full circle one day.
just fucking watch.
numbers aside anyone with a basketball brain sees the greatness oozing out of him.. it's in his movements and timing.
wait till utah puts an actual competent offense together.
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Was brutal watching him in the 4th. He looks the same as last year except... his shots just don’t go in. Hope he turns it around
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He was great in the first half but he was shut down in the second when Bud changed his defensive tactic against ball handlers.
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This is dumb. Looking at the numbers doesn't tell the story. This is cherry picking just to stir up hate and controversy. Mitchell killed it for the first three quarters and kept the Jazz in it. In the fourth quarter he started to go cold and nobody wanted to step up so he had to keep shooting. People who post this without watching the game are pathetic
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So he choked when it counted
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Almost like scoring 1 point in a playoff game.
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Almost like slowly coming to the realization that Don is trash
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Haha you're delusional if you think averaging 20 in a sophomore season is trash. Speaking of sophomores, hows Fultz doing right now?
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So he was gassed after playing 40 minutes since we have lost two guards in the last 2 games.
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So he has an abundance of excuses for why he's trash. Got it.
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The jazz have no one else that can create their own shot. As funny as the Tyreke comparisons are a guy like that would work wonders for their team.
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People hating with no context. Donny slayed for 3 quarters but we're down Rubio and Exum. He was out of position and gassed.
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These threads lack context but alright hate if you will
I mean he’s having a bad season by every measure. He’s shooting 41%, 30% from 3 and has a 49 TS% which is not even close to being league average. He doesn’t do enough elsewhere to compensate for that like Russ does and that’s why he’s in the negative in almost every advanced stat
If you think literally posting stats is hating obviously you’re too biased to look at it rationally
Use all the stats you want but he is gonna be a killer
You think Russ is having a better season?
100% not even a debate
everyone think that russ better in both ends this season
Lol I’ve been defending Mitchell because I think there needs to be more context to his stats, but Russ is easily having a better season
Welcome to the club
Exactly. Dude normally carries the offensive load alongside Ricky while the starters are there. Over the past 2 weeks we've had Exum to carry the bench load. Within a quarter we had neither of them. On the 4th game of a road trip.
Lol well no wonder y'all suck offensively then because he's doing a terrible job of 'carrying' your offense.
How's Anthony Davis doing right now?
A hell of a lot better than any player on your team, thanks for asking :)
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He was the reason the Jazz had the lead in the third. Our defence locked him up in the fourth after catching fire in the third.
He was great in the first half and third quarter. and cooled off in the fourth quarter
And for more context he cooled off in the fourth because he was gassed since we lost Rubio 5 minutes in and were already without Exum so he played a ton of minutes.
I started watching this game after the Celtics one ended, and it honestly explained a lot about his his stats to me. He would be passed the ball at times in awkward places late in the shot clock and feel compelled to take a shot for instance and other types of scenarios similar to that. its pretty easy to see he’s taking shots he knows aren’t that great because he’s been told to do so. I don’t think he has bad shot selection per se, just too much on his plate too soon
Yes but if a Jazz fan says this it’s -37 rep because we’re blind homers.
Lots of his “bad shots” are just as you said. Get the ball to Don and hope he can do something with 4 seconds.
Haha well it looks like I might be on my way to that too, but whatever, this anti-Mitchell circle jerk is starting to really annoy me. He has some issues he has to work through, but neither the box score stats nor the more commonly used advanced stats on here tell the full story. He’s not playing hero ball because he wants to, he’s playing it because his coach and teammates seem to be telling him too. In another situation, he might not have the chance to be the guy on he team, but his efficiency would likely go way up, since it doesn’t seem to be a lack of bbiq