Stephen A.: The Utah Jazz make me SICK 🤢 I can't stand this team! | First Take 

Yep! If Rudy doesn't switch, then it's an uncontested layup in the lane by quick, athletic guards blowing by every Jazz player.

Only good wing defender is Royce O’Neal and he can’t do it all

The problem is the Jazz General Manager he should have signed perimeter defenders.

@@benaiahknox7759 agreed neither star needs to go smarter decisions by the front office have to be made..

That's cuz they paid Rudy money like he Ben Wallace down there or sumn he good but not the money they gave him good could of used that money and spread it out to get better pieces Utah still feel a good role player or two away thats it I wouldn't blow it up like everybody saying tho just get a couple key pieces some heart that'll anchor the team and somebody like Rondo that'll run the team right and coach Mitch on floor and off it how to run a team and not just look to score

Espn bag hits different

I don’t feel bad for him because they act like he is an all around defender and automatically deserves DPOY bc of shot blocking. He is atrocious in the playoffs defensively.

Exactly, the only guys that have been even somewhat effective on the perimeter are Danuel House and Royce O'Neal, and they aren't even elite it's time to blow it up, Gobert is good and can be good in the playoffs but only on certain teams (Lakers?) Bojan was big on the offensive side but he isn't defending and he's getting old, same goes for Conley. I doubt Mitchell will want to stay if they lose in the 1st round. They don't want to become the next trail blazers, holding onto mediocrity and never going anywhere with a star

@Jim Brave you dropped this L

@Jim Brave You had me until you brought up politics lol

Look, if a NBA players decides he’s driving into the paint and has the defender on an island, 9x out of 10 he’s getting into the paint!!! These dudes can go left and right you can’t stop both.

I don’t know man,for me that duo don’t match at all.

I don`t like Gobert but come on, the guy defended better than most Jazz wings and was the only one crashing the board. Also is Gobert fault if in a 5 out they got beat and he got to collapse the paint ?

@@thar768 I mean the thing is that every year its the same with Gobert, he cant guard small Defender and teams are almost always playing small against the Jazz. And Gobert isnt good enough offensively to Punish smaller Defender. Dont know why they are paying this guy a MAX contract...

That was a duo ?!

@@thar768 Gobert perimeter defense is one of the funniest jokes in the world, did you not learn what happened with him from that curry crossover 😂

thats exactly what SA is saying, rudy gobert cannot be put out there when the other team is playing small ball, the two playoff exits against the houston rockets was confirmation, gobert cant do enough offensively to punish the other team for playing small either

They suck stop making excuses for a team that won’t get out of the second round and just accept the fact that they suck Rudy won’t help anybody in the playoffs

SAS has an agenda to push he aint tryna hear logic

@@The8310353 you take Gobert off the floor the Jazz lose. They literally can’t stop anyone. If they had perimeter defenders you can live without him. But since you don’t, you have no choice but to ply him

@@reverseenigma3969 in years past they've had perimeter defenders, why do you think the warriors take looney out of the lineup through out the game? gobert has been made obsolete, look up his stats in the postseason. doesnt have a go to offensive move to save his life and cant punish teams for going small

SAS was actually right though. If they don't try something new they are guaranteed to lose the series and in the last 2 years Gobert has "looked like" the liability on the perimeter. Now JJ knows the game inside out so maybe the responsibility doesn't purely reside with Gobert if you have an indepth understanding of the defence schemes and rotations and it just looks that way to us casuals. Regardless they will lose the series if they don't change something.

@@mitchrapp5214 they can’t change the team tomorrow

@@mitchrapp5214 do u realize how bad the perimeter defenders are on the Jazz? If you watch the game there is no one on that team that can stay in front of their man. Gobert’s job in this defense is to protect the rim, he makes up for A LOT of their mistakes but he always gets called out because he can’t guard perimeter players which no one on that team can. Watch a Jazz game and count how many times their perimeter players get beat 1 on 1 and then Rudy has to rotate over to help defend the paint.

Yep, i mean Stephen A is trying to create a scapegoat because he does not want to criticize his crush Donovan Mitchell and the other guards. It´s kinda obvious. What should Gobert do? Utahs backcourt is playing atrocious defense. Mike Conley isn´t the youngest anymore and Donovan Mitchell is a liability. Whoever attacked Utahs Guards got a free pass, not just JB or SD, even Bullock or Finney-Smith. They did what they wanted to do. Penetrate - Kick. They even ran the same play 3 times after another in the fourth and still got what they wanted. If i was Utahs GM i would definitely send Mitchell away. For whatever reason you get more for ineffective volume-scorers with nearly no D than a strict defensive Center. Anyway. If they send Gobert away, i´d love to see him pair up with Doncic. Doncic even makes Dwight Powell look like a reasonable starter which he should not be. Gobert would probably score 24 ppg on lobs alone AND Dallas has the personal to cover small ball teams as well.

@@ummhello They don't realize that. People who say SAS is right are the same people that watching him on RU-vid all day and then claim they understand basketball by making a comment. Lol it's laughable.

And aggressively wrong😂😂

Fr 😭

Because he´s an ignorant racist

Who cares

@@lin_6x579 i care As a slovenian I care

Meanwhile he shots on Westbrook for the same thing

Exactly. 29 shots to score 32 game 1 and yesterday 30 shots to score 34. That’s dreadful and he’s out here blaming everyone else.

100%!!! I laughed when he singled out Mitchell as being a brotha that can ball... Stfu! He's making awful decisions on the court and he never makes a smart pass. Rather shoot 9 times out of 10 no matter what. Good or bad shot. It's annoying to watch.

But Rudy Gobert is not a "brother" and this seems to matter for SAS.

It's cos he wants Mitchell to go to the Knicks

Yeah but Rudy is gonna be 30 soon. I feel like you can make a case for either guy to be traded over the other.

Then what they need is a facilitator. Like a Chris Paul or Westbrook 😭. Someone that likes to pass and let Mitchell score his heart away

You gotta trade Gobert. You don't trade a potentially elite scorer to keep a big who is good at couple things on defense but sucks at everything else basketball related

@@edwincollins5847 CP3 would never leave Book for Mitchell lol.

@@christianrodgers-smith3184 why not? I think there are so many elite scorers nowadays, very few defensive powerhouse

Fr 😂

He's doing it on purpose

@@russellwestbrookyellingatw9381 Yea because its almost like people never mess up names

@@FaceFamous are you ill? He heard his name literally hundreds of times. He's doing it on purpose to disrespect him. It's Stephen A Smith we're talking about here after all...

For real lol. What's Gobert meant to do when all 3 of his perimeter guards get blown by every possession?

@@bonkling Be smarter imho ?

@@grostoss4259 Please explain what you mean by "be smarter". Because I don't understand, should Gobert not rotate to protect the paint and just let them get uncontested layups? What am I missing here?

They need to bench coleny and start house

True but Gobert is french so he is read differently than others.

Get ready for Gobert to be a Laker. That is what the media wants and maybe sore loser Lebron.

3x dpoy hes the anchor. He need to be like draymond orchestrating the defense

utah got bench players playing as starters bad roster

Mf just casually forgot bout Stockton and Malone 🤣🤣

Stockton and Malone never played basketball 🏀 i guess. 🤷‍♂️😱 Don't know why SAS keeps saying that

donovan mitchell is becoming overrated in my opinion. hes sacrificing defense and hustle to keep up with his ppg avg. trade him and conley for wing defense and a faciliator. they'll eventually find a player that can create their own shot just as well if not better

Boy it’s Stockton, Malone how bout Deron Williams to say that is stretching it he hasn’t been there long

Has no offensive game. All these years and he cant learn to do a hook shot or drop step deep in the paint? He has guys 6’8-6’9 on him and he cant do anything but clog the paint up he’s a liability and a waste of size on offense

@@splashbros-yc9lk lol they just don't give him the ball. Plus, we're talking defense here.

Fun fact gobert shoots 18% on hook shots

He is the problem he’s a 1 dimensional player who can only protect inside

@@deonleopard8199 yes but he is one of the best ever in the paint he has one other starter who can play defence the rest are useless without him the jazz have the 30tj ranked defence in the league how is that possible for it to be that bad if he has a klay Thompson on him the coach literally is a perimeter guy and it doesn’t work Rudy isn’t the problem

They are too great to break it up. Just add some key players

If it was the lakers blow it up but the jazz can’t get stars so stick with the good ones we have

If anything this team needs to blow it up. They can’t get past the second round and haven’t learned anything from the clippers series last year 🤣🤣🤣

No defender in the league can be in two places at once.

Nah. You can't choke when not much is expected. Jazz were never contenders this yr after week 1.

@@realpro8817 they blow games every year

If they move to STL they will be world championship 🏆.

Yes but it is easier for SAS to ignore this as Rudy is not a "brother"

@@vianouche1 your comment is underrated because that may very well be the case, since he's always bringing in race, even when it has nothing to do within the context of the topic they may have.

@@NoNameGamingCrew exactly. SAS has a sentence that often comes back and it is "I hate to say this about a brother but..." and then process with a comment. Rudy never get that. I am french and I can tell you that from our perspective, we see a biaised treatment from american journalist for Rudy. I hope to be wrong but some even say here that it could be qualifies as racism. Just some food for thought..:

@@vianouche1 it's really dumb to blame Rudy when he's the only one playing defense, as good as he is, he's only one guy, he can't guard 5 people. Meanwhile he doesn't mention the fact that Mitchell is struggling. Might be racist, might not be, but he's definitely not being objective...

@@NoNameGamingCrew agree!

Right? Can't nobody see it? The Mavs are freakin good defensively and people think that they are just Luka + shooters

Completely agree as a Jazz fan. Great defense from the Mavs. There will be close games when Doncic comes back because Dallas’ defense will get worse because the Jazz will hunt him. This team without Doncic is great defensively against the Jazz.

umm basic math says give up a two instead of a 3 but I get it same time, I'm with stephen A though some someone because it just makes rudy look like a NPC or a bot in a video game out there so typical what he does because how slow he is.

Stephen isn’t “wrong” but the issue starts with the fact the people can skip to the paint, it’s not like they are switching gobert on them, playing help defense is what gobert job is so when he rotates to the paint someone has to rotate to the corner. The fact that it’s not happening is the biggest problem. If you want them to jus rim run whole game and keep gobert in the corner that’s fine corner won’t go off like it’s been, but they gonna have 80+ points in the paint

Stephen a not right tho. Cuz he's saying that Gobert needs to be taken right because he can't guard the perimeter. The problem is nobody on the Jazz is good guarding the perimeter.

@@christianrodgers-smith3184 He’s not wrong at all in that. But it’s sticky with Utah. The clippers beat Dallas last year yes by their heroics of Kawhi but benched Zubac who was getting mauled on switches and Pick and roles on the perimeter. Golden state will go small because of Kevon looney. There’s other problems. But if teams decided to go small vs Utah they’ll lose.

@@jgalvan09 not it the 2 goes in 75 percent of the time and 3 goes in 40 percent of the time the math says give up the 3, and it’s Rudy’s job in Quin’s scheme

Yeah well Mitchell isn't that much better than RJ Barrett so have fun with that.

Dam!! Thats good insight

mitchell is top 5 in all time in playoffs what you on about selections who cares utah dont have plan b when teams go small thats not on Rudy or Mitchell

@@ramzy-1096 Mitchell was 13/30 yesterday. It's easy to average 30PPG when you all you do is chuck 3's and take 30 shots every game.

It’s not Mitchell it’s Rudy fault every year their iso on him and exposing him Mitchell always shows up it’s everyone else’s if you watch the game you would see that and Rudy their so call dpoy always getting scored on dreymond has been talking about this since 3years ago a blind person could see that

@@josephbryant1666 that's because the other can't guard the perimeter and they leave gobert on an island, since he's the only one who can guard the paint as well. If the perimeter defenders did their jobs there wouldn't be an issue with Gobert.

Possibly out the entire series.. calf strain ain't no joke

@@pinbarbecue1100 I would personally bring Luka back in Game 5. Think we can get one in Utah without him

@@pinbarbecue1100 i dont know how people still think luka will return ...he wont return ....

If he’s back by game 4 the series is over jazz have no chance

I´d give him my calf

Sas said this a couple months ago right

It's almost like Karl Malone and John Stockton never existed.

@@bluelivesmurder5696 LOL

As a Jazz fan I would love to watch Rudy stay in the corner for a game and not help defensively. Then they would see the layup line happening.

Yes, he actually understands the game. The fact that he played against Gobert in the playoffs also probably helps him have good insight here.

How his averaging 30 points

@@hotboiibash916 if u watched the games you would see, he doesnt pass the ball, he's shooting a hig volume of shots so ofc he'd average high pts, and is bricking everything in the clutch

@@Chris.41 mitchell iso ball is embarrassing ...30 points on 30 shots is terrible

@@digontozahid thats one game well done

@@Chris.41 he isnt passing the ball to Rudy... his iso ball is why they cant ever close out games

I’m actually glad he’s at ESPN because he makes it watchable

Lol

Maybe is he too young to remember 90s

Forgot all about Malone and Stockton

He got just as many rings as them 🤷🏾‍♂️

@@blxghtc.5404 Don't be dumb.

Kirilenko better than Mitchell

@@blxghtc.5404 bad take🤷🏾‍♂️

Having grown up in utah and been a jazz fan my whole life I hate that you are right.

If Dallas would of shot anywhere near their averages in game one they'd definitely be up 2-0

Legit gave him the ball for the game yesterday he was just god awful with it

yea because he shoots 17 percent on any shot that requires at least 1 dribble

I kinda felt sorry for Gobert. He was literally on an island trying to play defense

It's not Gobert's fault, Gobert is still an all-time great defensive player but he's not built to guard the perimeter. If Utah had a Marcus Smart, this would be a non-issue

@@haydennyagah706 all time great is a stretch

@@SSJRome he's one of 4 players ever to have 3 or more dpoy

@@ignorantpost6051 sympathy award

@@SSJRome only if you're an idiot and don't know anything about basketball.

Dude you’re watching the “drama show” now so what are you talking about?

He's a scorer and he isn't bad. He just doesn't know how to win. Mavs in 5

Correct sadly.

You got to realize that a couple of the thirty shots he took were forced due to the shot clock

@@lilsiribiglil1953 and why was the shot clock that low? Because he won’t move the ball and get something going. It’s just him dribbling down the clock

Last year Stephen A said Donovan was the greatest player in Utah Jazz franchise history. That should tell you what he thinks about him.

He is though he is a 4x allstar

He is a star

He definitely is a star, but he's not being held accountable for what he's at fault for, he's been blowing games all season

They were the #1 seed last year and he is their best player… just because he hasn’t taken them to the finals doesn’t mean he isn’t a star.

The nets need him😂

You're entire defense be gone. Him alone can make a team a number 1 defense trading gobert be stupid

@@justaction LOL, like a team want a max Player that cant score the basket in PO every single year

@@Jasoncj099 you right😂🤣😂🤣

@@justaction the nets got enough problems 😭

Ofc the mavs played amazing but the reason why they’re talking about how the jazz lost is because they just played that much worse given the fact that they are at 100% or near it

Instead of giving up uncontested threes, uncontested layups will be given if Gobert is removed. No one on the Jazz can defend on the ball. Uncontested layups have a far higher percentage than uncontested three's.

I didn't watch a ton of Knicks games but I feel like RJ is no where near his ceiling yet. With Donovan I think he's already peaked. that would be interesting to see who is the winner of that type of trade though

100% agree. I don't know the exact number of teams but I bet most of the top 10 defenses in the league switch everything. It's just the way the game is played now, Utah's defense is ancient in comparison.

You need a new coach and a new team

Golden State as well