Even though Gay is stgglg, team productivy is high when he’s the urt. Pl ach Will Hardy may have another reason why he’s givg the former San Anton Spur time on the floor
Contents:
- RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED
- ONE-ON-ONE ... TO FIVE: RUDY GAY
- WHY IS RUDY GAY GETTG MUT FOR THE JAZZ?
- RUDY GAY MAK A BIG FIRST IMPRSN ON THE UTAH JAZZ: ‘HE’S A HELL OF A PLAYER 26 SEASONS ’
RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED
Rudy Gay told reporters about his offseason surgery on Friday after Jazz practice. * rudy gay one on one *
(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rudy Gay is terviewed durg Utah Jazz media day at Vivt Arena, Monday, Sept.
27, 2021 Salt Lake ’s both a glass-half-empty way and a glass-half-full way to look at Rudy Gay’s Friday, the Utah Jazz forward mented publicly for the first time on his offseason surgery to repair his right heel, the same surgery that has kept him out of the Jazz’s preason actn so far and will ntue to keep him out through the early part of the regular said that the heel had ed him pa that he’d been “playg wh for a while” — five years, fact. And fally, he cid last season that the pa had gotten to be too much, and he’d unrgo the surgery to rrect both Gay and the team are beg extremely ut about his return, too.
So I unrstand people expect me to go out there and play, ” Gay said. ”So there’s the glass-half-empty news: Gay don’t know when he’ll return, nor do there seem to be particular urgency the eback.
ONE-ON-ONE ... TO FIVE: RUDY GAY
Five qutns wh Sacramento's Rudy Gay, who plays host to his old Toronto teammat Wednday night. The Raptors are 18-10 sce Gay was trad away, but Gay is averagg 20. * rudy gay one on one *
The prry is the playoffs, and the team will sacrifice regular-season mut the the glass-half-full aspect is this: Gay was a pretty solid NBA ntributor over the last five seasons, playg through pa. And will some rt the regular season mean Gay plays at a higher level April, May, and June? Optimists out there uld also take some joy Gay’s practice workouts.
Even though he hasn’t been any gam so far, Gay has been part of the team’s shootg ntts, fdg himself groups wh all liber of marksmen, om Rudy Gobert to Joe Friday, his practice also nsisted of some work the post: both srg wh an assistant ach fendg, and learng how the Jazz might move players around him to fd open cutters and short, ’s not that Gay don’t want to be around, or that he’s takg easy. “Oh man, he’s been a great lear for , ” said Mike Conley — who also played wh Gay Memphis. ”The return may not be soon, but Gay isn’t worried how the Jazz will fare his absence.
“The fact that this team was the number one team the league last year whout me, that giv me a chn, ” Gay said. • Also vered soccer, tennis and the OlympicsFive qutns wh Sacramento's Rudy Gay, who plays host to his old Toronto teammat Wednday night.
WHY IS RUDY GAY GETTG MUT FOR THE JAZZ?
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The Raptors are 18-10 sce Gay was trad away, but Gay is averagg 20. At season's end, Gay mt ci whether to play out the last year of his ntract at $19.
The Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gay dribbl agast New Orleans Salt Lake Cy on Thursday, Dec. I get this qutn om opposg team beat reporters, om suts and om quirg mds on every is Rudy Gay gettg playg time? So, I thk ’s time that we exame what’s gog on wh is clear to most people watchg the game that he is not playg like the Rudy Gay of years gone by.
Even sual fans n see he’s slow fensively, he mak bad cisns on offense and that spe all, he is still gettg mut ahead of Simone Fontecch or Ochai you dig to some of Gay’s dividual stats, don’t help his se much. I thk the explanatn is nuanced and there are many factors that are playg to — and this certaly won’t help you unrstand why Gay is gettg playg time — I’d like to dispel any belief that the Jazz are playg Gay so that they n crease his tra value.
RUDY GAY MAK A BIG FIRST IMPRSN ON THE UTAH JAZZ: ‘HE’S A HELL OF A PLAYER 26 SEASONS ’
Gay is 36 years old and on a $6 ln al wh a player optn for next season. He do not have posive value and the Jazz are well we’re gog to look at thgs purely om a numbers perspective has to be noted that the Jazz explibly play better wh Gay on the urt than they do whout Cleang The Glass, the Jazz have an efficiency differential of +12. 9 wh Gay on the urt.
5 pots per 100 posssns better than when Gay is on the bench, which is exceptnal.
I n’t expla why or how the Jazz are puttg up those numbers when Gay is on the urt, nsirg his low productn and some of his qutnable cisn-makg on both ends, but is you pair that wh the fact that the Gay is only playg about 15 mut per game, the Jazz are gog to happily live wh the rults, even if don’t look great when ’s there are reasons I believe Gay is playg that go beyond the numbers and beyond the season, Qu Snyr benched Gay and the veteran player was not pleased. On media day this season he likened to the reporters g to the terview room and not beg able to ask qutns, not beg allowed to do their realy would be more like a reporter dog a bad job and then beg moted for someone who was dog a better job, but that’s not how Gay saw thgs. Multiple sourc wh knowledge of the tone and tenor of the Jazz locker room last season have said that Gay’s displeasure wh the suatn add to the tensn that was already stewg.