6/18/2023 0 Comments Shaq donovan mitchell“I know there’s a lot of critics out there that try to devalue him with their words, but I don’t think anyone will ever understand how valuable he is to this team unless you’re in this locker room. “I can’t speak enough on Rudy Gobert and his value to our team, especially defensively,” Georges said. And by “bigger,” he meant roughly 7-foot-1 and 258 pounds. When it was pointed out that Utah had posted the best defensive rating in the league over the course of that winning streak, he explained that was mostly attributable to “attention to detail - making teams uncomfortable, following the scouting report, forcing guys on the other team to get to areas where they’re not as high a percentage of shooters or finishers.”īeyond even those factors, though, he said there was one even bigger reason for their defensive success. While he noted that the team’s focus on transition play was important, he also made it known that, “on the defensive end, we’re really taking it up a notch.” “At the beginning of the year, coach was just going over film with us of the bad habits that we had, whether it was defensively, or not running the floor, or not spacing for each other, and he was like, ‘We know what those bad habits get us - those bad habits get us out in the first round,’” Georges recalled. ![]() Still, he did say there were definitely some principles that had taken root - although they’d been planted by Quin Snyder a while ago now. ![]() Georges, displaying his typical candor, admitted he that while he knew the Jazz were playing well, he’d had no idea they were even on such a streak until someone told him following Tuesday’s win. Ben Detrick, a contributor to the New York Times, Vice, and The Ringer, among others, summed up the show’s present vibe pretty succinctly: “Shaq’s confrontational schtick aside, the bigger issue is the NBA cultivating an environment where every talking head’s persona is Toxic Boomer.” Georges Niang on Rudy Gobert: ‘I don’t think anyone will ever understand how valuable he is’įollowing Thursday’s pregame shootaround, Jazz forward Georges Niang was asked if there was anything different about the team that had precipitated the six-game winning streak they were on heading into their rematch against the Pelicans.good for donovan,” wrote ESPN’s Bomani Jones. “The last thing shaq expected was for mitchell to not give on single solitary damn about his opinion.Had 36 last night, takes time to chat and gets hit w/this? Weak.” “Dude dropped 57, 51 and 44 in playoffs last year. Mitchell deserves much better, publicly,” Tweeted CBS Sports Radio’s Brandon Tierney. “Love Shaq and old-school motivational tactics, but this misses the mark badly.He just dropped 36 PPG in a playoff series last year. “Also like, Donovan Mitchell isn’t one of these young dudes who has plateaued. “I have no idea what Shaq was trying to accomplish with this, but it certainly did not go the way he thought it would,” Sam Vecenie, national NBA writer for The Athletic, wrote on Twitter.And social media reaction to Shaq and Chuck’s weird excoriated them for more of the same: The “Inside the NBA” crew (which also includes Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith) has been increasingly criticized in recent years for their befuddling habit of randomly tearing down some of the NBA’s brightest young stars. ![]() It was weird, and Donovan has since been celebrated for his cold-blooded, awkwardness-inducing, one-word reply to Shaq (”Aight”).
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