Tbh I don't think Rudy's going to be back in this series. Heard that the time table for a hyperextension & bone bruise is minimum 2 weeks. Game 7 would officially be two weeks. We'll see though.
Regardless, when we've played Utah even with Rudy, DJ does really well against him. They virtually cancel each other out, which leads me to my point.
Rewatched both games 1 and 2 today on campus (I know lol bball nerd ****) and As long as Luc Mbah Amoute can keep Gordon Hayward struggling, I think we win this series even if JJ redick and Jamal keep giving us zilch. Will be harder to do so, but I think we still win.
Reason being, is because a lot of fluky **** has been happening for Utah at the 3pt line. Regardless, even with their exceptional 3 pt shooting they're only averaging 94pts a game through the first two which tells me that we're defending. We scored 99 points on their defense in an 89 possession game. Basically the jazz play at a slow pace so the points for us are going to be lower but offensively we were still really good and shot over 52% from the field against their defense w/o even getting to the line. There was a lot to like in games 1 and 2 and a lot to take away in LAC's favor moving forward.
All of that was just a long winded way of saying the jazz already struggle with scoring the ball. They were 28th in the league in that department this year. So a team that already can't score, is going to be asked to keep up with CP, Blake, and DJ (Because so far that's essentially what the clips have become, which is a topic by itself) w/o gobert, and a struggling gordon hayward? In theory, that should be too tall of a task for Utah as long as Luc's defense keeps up. But they are at home, and are still a really good defensive team, so i'm not flat out predicting the clips runaway with this (I know better than that, we're the clippers lol) but as long as blake, DJ, and CP, play downhill with the level of force they've played at in games 1 and 2, we should be fine.
