Isaiah Collier

Again, Mr. Shepard, Reid popping up for Houston, Colin Gillespie, Jamal Sheep.

Isaiah Collier in Utah, Drew Holiday, Dennis Shreddick, Kingston Flemings in Atlanta, Quentin Grimes in LA, and of all people, Jordan Poole.

Now, I hesitate to put the Poole party in, but the seven assists the other day did balance out and show more of a willingness of playmaking, which they have been encouraging.

If that does keep up for a couple more games, here's a fine ad and available on lots of waiver wires with a lot of the evidence being put on Jeremiah Fears, who's underperformed to start the season.

Ace Bailey was awesome early.

Isaiah Collier was awesome early.

Keontae George was awesome all game long.

And they ended up facing a pretty massive deficit.

When I think of a great backup that would really kind of check those boxes, I think of like a De'Ron Sharp that can bring some strength, some physicality, and give you a little bit of that that you can mix in now and then.

Not to turn this all into a Looney thing, but like when Isaiah Collier drove into the paint last night and bodied Looney off of him and then finished and got an and one.

I get it when it's Jaron Jackson Jr. Isaiah Collier is roughly four foot seven, I believe.

And so that guy scoring on Looney in that way concerned me to the point where I thought, okay this this is really not not working looney's getting one five minute shift a game right now and that's it and jj's not going back to him in the i call this

the dalton special because remember after the rescinded trade dalton would play the first five minutes of the second quarter and then never play again like it was basically testing can you make a couple shots wouldn't make them and then that was his one shift so They just got to retire it at this point.

It is now, scouting reports have, if Kevon Looney's in the game, you hunt the rim.

Isaiah Collier yesterday saw Looney on him and decided this is my time to go, which is not a great matchup.

But again, Looney I think is just completely – and it's not his fault.

He's 30 years old with a bajillion miles on him.

Ace Bailey was awesome early.

Isaiah Collier was awesome early.

Keontae George was awesome all game long.

And they ended up facing a pretty massive deficit.

They have to be honest.

And so a player like Isaiah Collier, who's been a little frustrating this season, can get better shots, right? Collier had some moments tonight, but there's also moments with Collier that are just like, ugh, so hard.

But yeah, I liked... everything about what marketing was doing this game there's times where i want him to be tougher there's times where like there's like two or three plays where he just either didn't catch the ball or lost the ball to a defender he had one where he was in isolation at the free throw line and they came and just took it word is out that if if marketing has the ball you just take it from him right so there's just going to be more tweaking to the jazz offense Where I just don't think you need to worry about doing that.

Unless it's complete isolation.

but can we play depth when we're playing bad teams or teams that were blowing out Utah went there? They just are not staggering their guys in this second quarter.

And, and it's killing them.

You know, they run this lineup where it's like Isaiah Collier tonight, they ran a Kogi more.

And I was actually pretty happy with the Kogi minutes.

Ace Bailey had two turnovers in that second quarter.

And Isaiah Collier finishes with only one turnover, but I want to point out that he had a play that was basically like a turnover, but didn't get credited as a turnover.

Instead, it got credited as a missed three-point attempt.

And you're probably already thinking, hey, Isaiah Collier, he's not a good three-point shooter, but I don't, you know, I'd rather he didn't take three-point shots.

But sometimes he makes them.

And you don't want to completely hamper your players too much.

And it was a two-on-one-and-a-half fast break.

The Lakers had some guys back.

The Jazz did it again in the third quarter, and this, I think, was the most problematic stretch of the game, even more so than seven turnovers in the second.

Isaiah Collier was awful in the third quarter, awful.

He had horrible shot after horrible shot, multiple turnovers, and Luka Doncic was off the court, and the Jazz weren't winning those stretches.

So the bench was not a particularly adept lineup for scoring.

Rye Sensible was the only offensive weapon, but Isaiah Collier, Sfi, Mikhailuk, and guys like that turned the ball over, and you need shots.

And then when Luka's out of the game, you can't play even.

You've got to win those minutes.