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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 3887103, member: 297"]
Agreed, he played poorly.

But that's actually super rare for him. He's gotten to the point where he almost never has a bad game. When he does, the Jazz fall apart. In this case, he had a really bad half at the absolute worst time possible. The thing is, if he plays better... the Clippers still may have come back.

I don't know. He's shouldering the blame for this. He's certainly responsible for some of it, visibly a lot of it. It's too lazy of a hot take though to pin it all on him. I know that's not what you're doing, it's part of the chatter today though.

I think the bigger issue is that the Jazz used both their draft pick and full MLE to solidify the 17 minutes a game that Gobert isn't on the court with other true centers instead of building into the roster the flexibility to shore up the perimeter defense/play small ball. The front office rolled the dice that those weaknesses wouldn't be an issue because they thought continuity was their best chance to compete. Maybe it was, but it didn't get them as far as they needed it to.

It's going to be ugly around here. There's a real sense among the fanbase here that the stars aligned as well as they ever have for the Jazz to win the title, and they couldn't even beat an undermanned Clippers squad to get to the conference finals. It's a bad choke. People are going to regret it forever.
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