(5) With the exception of a few. We don't move without the ball. We don't spread the floor, or spot up very much. It looks like our team has not played with each other very much as they have no clue what their teammate is going to do. We throw ball right out of bounds or off one of our own players because they cannot anticipate each other.

(6) We run plays by script. This is stifling all creativity of very talented players. We run one good play to open up a wing shot. But this shot was usually open earlier in the 24-second clock. We just passed it up.

(7) We need to pick a starting lineup and stick to it. Playing one player constantly against another makes for some conflict on the team. Put the players to work that came here to win, not to play. They will start to anticipate each other. We need to build around Kirilenko, don't ask him to be a star, make him a star. Give him the rope, not to mention the ball.

I have several other thoughts but I know its too much reading.

Good luck,

Jack Ferguson

American Fork

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Jazz need Malone, Stockton and Eaton back

The Jazz have a deep bench and plenty of very good role players, what they don't have are go-to guys who can play defense, so the solution is very simple: pick up Malone, plead with Stockton to come back, and get big Mark out of the broadcasting booth and back on the floor.

Christian Edwards

Centerville

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Trade should only exclude core players

It's time to get realistic. Just to finish .500 the Jazz would have to go 26-10 the rest of the way. That's a .72 winning percentage. Only two teams in the NBA — the Spurs and Suns — have a winning percentage that high. Even if the Jazz did somehow finish .500 that would probably still leave them just shy of the 8th playoff seed and a first-round match up with the Spurs. Of course, we all know what the Spurs do to the Jazz.

The Jazz have a great core of young players in Kirilenko, Boozer, Okur,

Lopez, Snyder, and Humphries. Boozer and Okur were expensive, but statistically the Jazz could not have realistically asked for any more then what they are producing. The areas Boozer and Okur lack in, toughness and defense, do not show up on the stat sheet. However, another year under Sloan and they will begin to exhibit those qualities.