Monday night edition of the pod brings another nail in the coffin to my playoff predictions as the Utah jazz go up

3-1 off of two dominating victories over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Salt Lake City. This one was not even as close as the final

one 13-96 score indicated the jazz with really an offensive victory. I think that's been the first thing I'll point to in this

series that's been most disappointing for OKC is their total inability to stop what was an average jazz offense this year. I haven't cared for their strategy. I haven't cared for their execution. We knew that there was a chance they would struggle offensively. Why haven't they been able to stop Utah? It has been a strange mix of scheme failure and execution failure. So in this one there were a few times where you're sitting there going why does Joingles so open and a couple of those times it was later

later in the game especially in the second half because Russell Westberg picked up his fourth foul in the second quarter actually they put Russ on Ingalls and so he lost them a couple times. That's even the case that's a little bit different. The end of the second quarter when he hit the three three I believe that all three of those were when Westbrook was guarding him but that wasn't even necessarily the

Feltrable because like closing out on a shooter you should be able to do that as well right. Oh no I'm just saying because Russell Westberg is much like you know he loses

guys. No no to your people are shadows and he did he picked up Ricky Rubio like twice full court like what are you talking about he's great at defense. Yep and that one time he played good defense on James Harden for like 10 minutes but I mean it's hard because that is certainly a part of this story and you know

mellows limitations there were points when Utah was going after him as well that was not really the three point defense that was more Donovan Mitchell getting drives but overall just Oklahoma City

I mean it wasn't as egregious to me as in game three when they were just leaving that corner open and Rubio was getting the ball there or they were getting it to

to go bear whatever and they were getting it it wasn't that egregious but it's just producing too many and other than Donovan Mitchell and Donovan Mitchell was

was wonderful in this game we'll talk about some of the stuff that he did Utah's one-on-one creators are not so dangerous that you need to be

selling out to stop them a lot of the time you to Rubio is a is a nice passer I like a lot of what he does but you trust your own

players to not get beaten one-on-one and the jazz aren't going to do that much on that into the four they can be wonderful

defensively maybe they can get out and transition a little bit but I've been shocked at how scared O.K.C. has been

of penetration and of the great and Donovan Mitchell okay I get it he's maturing into an excellent

finisher right you play him two on two in the pick and roll he gets going down hill he can score over

you has Ricky Rubio made one layup in this entire series in the half court like I don't think he has

and yet you know they send him left every time and Stephen Adams is all the way out to the three point

line make him pick up his dribble and then in game three you mentioned they changed the scheme they

had the weak side corner man going all the way up to basically like plug the roll man at the free

throw line this time they weren't as aggressive with that but Ricky Rubio I mean you're playing

directly into his strengths with that coverage because he's got good size at the point and he's

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