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Jazz blowout Paul's Hornets

MILLSAPS #1 FAN | 9:33 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

MILLSAP WITH ANOTHER DOUBLE DOUBLE!! WE DONT NEED BOOZ!!!!!

GoodGuyGary | 9:44 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

I am so glad I picked up Millsap on my fantasy league, and he was free agent, hahaha!

Millsap was a Monster | 9:42 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

I noticed P. Millsap was particularly dominant against the Hornets second-stringers--he was just too powerful for them to handle close to the basket. Congrats to Paul on his 19th consecutive double-double (a Jazz record?), and to the Jazz for their impressive win!

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fanman | 9:43 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

Carlos Who?

lennie | 9:48 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

Good job guy's. everything clicked tonight. keep up the good works. when the booz comes back we will run the league right into the ground. nothing will stop us. we are the world. you go jazz!

Anonymous | 10:04 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

cp3 ate dwill lunch tonight! thanks to paul millsap(all-star!!!) for the win!

wootwoot | 10:12 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

Nice Game Kyle Korver...he was on fire!

A good W | 10:20 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

I thought this would be a tough win for the jazz, and they cruised to an easy victory. Memo wasn't playing any defense early on, but he got into the flow later. There wasn't anything NO could do tonight. It was really the first dominant win of the year. I don't know what changed the game.
I was watched it on tv. They panned the shot on Booz. I've really been bad about talking about booz, screaming for his trade. I wish i could take that stuff back. He didn't look happy, which was sad. The jazz can dominate like they did tonight, every night; hopefully it will be with booz. I just hope booz gets well and comes back. Even though he makes me want to pull my hair out, like memo's slack d early, i like watching booz play. I just hope booz gets well, he takes care of himself. The jazz aren't as good without him, but i'd be mistaken if i thought the jazz were more important than any one person. Let the chips fall where they may for the jazz, I'm going to support our individuals.
Go JAZZ

Chris Paul Keeler | 10:30 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

Chris Paul got the points for himself, but could not get his team mates involved. D-Will did and his team won. D-will still owns Chris Paul. Milsap Dominates. Check out Koufos, 5 boards in 8 minutes. Go Koufos! Go D-Will! Go Paul Milsap! Go Jazz!

sunny south | 10:35 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

Who's the better player; the one who scores 30 points or the one who makes sure the ball goes where it needs so the other players have good shots and his team wins? Sure Millsap had a great game, as did Memo and Korver and Harpring and ak. Was that by chance or did dwill have a hand in the victory? To discount dwil's part in a team win is like saying Utah doesn't deserve being number one.

re:anonymous | 11:13 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

Paul ate Williams' lunch? What game did you watch? The Jazz blew out the Hornets, Williams shot the ball but 7 times, played with a bad cold on top of that too. Stats are not everything. This is the first time paul has put up "good numbers" agains the Jazz. As for me, I will take the win.

magnus | 11:39 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009

..."I don't know what we are goingt to do with him."

-Jerry Sloan referring to Paul Millsap

Memo

To: Coach Sloan

To answer your question coach, you will pay him whatever it takes to keep him and play him 30+ minutes a night.

Question answered. Problem Solved.

Sincerely

magnus

magnus | 12:08 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009

I think this game demonstrated some of the BIG weaknesses of the Hornets more than anything else. They lack depth, especiallly in the frontcourt, and they rely too much on Chris Paul and David West for their offensive production. When one of them is off, they simply can't beat a good team. If they don't make a major move I think Paul may be able to will them past the first round, but they don't look like a title contender to me.

The Jazz, on the other hand, I am still exited about. I think if they can get Boozer back and playing 100% by March and Williams consistently playing at his pre-ankle-injury level then this team is a force to be reckoned with.

I guess I would have to add one other caviat, the Jazz need better effort from the starting Small Forward.

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magnus | 12:29 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009

Bored tonight so here's one more.

I know I said that I wouldn't talk Boozer trades but I just have to throw this out there... IF Boozer gets healthy before the trade deadline, and IF JAzz managment decides moving him is the right thing to do (I'm still not sure) I think an interesting trade would be Boozer for Gerald Wallace. It would work out money wise and rumors have been going around that the Bobcats are looking to deal him if the offer is right. Boozer would be a no lose situation for them, if he opts out they get cap space and are a major player on the free agent market, if he doesn't they have a PF who can adress their biggest weakness, scoring.

I'm not sure how Wallace would do in Sloans system, but if it worked what you could do is start him in place of CJ and continue to bring AK off the bench, playing more at Power Forward where he seems to be most effective.

With the emergence of Kosta and the fact that the frontcourt rotation of Memo, Milsap and AK is playing very well I think the idea has merit.

Shat | 8:05 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009

Magnus, brilliant. I was thinking through the game how bad Hornets are if they lose Paul or West. It's great they can score well on some teams, but having all your eggs in one basket (so to speak) is dangerous. I would rather have a team that is deep, where we can get points across the board on any given night. Credit the Jazz for adjusting on help D early and shutting down their only two scoring threats.

Williams played well, but looked awful in the post game interview. He was sweating and pale, but just played through it. He gave one quarter away to Paul, the first. Nearly all his points came in the first, then he just got beat by help D.

Wallace trade, I like it. Wallace is a good defender and can score at will. CJ could play at the 2 or 3 off the bench.

My wife and Boozer | 9:11 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009

She's 60 years old, and had arthroscopic surgery on a hyper-extended knee with a "bone bruise" similar to what I keep reading about with Boozer. She was back to doing her normal activities in a week. She doesn't play in the NBA, granted, but she had four bone fragments in her knee. Wanna bet you'll not see Boozer before playoff time? She's got more heart than he does. The minute he's healthy (which won't be before the trade deadline) ship this loozer off to a team that is willing to take a chance on his malingering non-productive career. Shoot, Sloan could make an All-Star out of my wife, as he soon will make an All-Star out of Millsap. This time I hope my comment isn't so abusive of Mr. Boozer that it will get posted (I admit to my critical nature of Mr. Boozer in past posts).

v | 10:45 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009

Boozer has been an excellent Power Forward for the Jazz. To have both Millsap and Boozer for the playoffs will be a great benefit. The Jazz have not dropoff when going from 1st to 2nd team.

Boozer made an unwise comment about future money as the economy was tanking. Give the man a break. How many stupid things are said on this blog daily?

Millsap's development will certainly light a fire under Boozer to compete when he returns.

Dapper2k | 11:29 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009

NO played the night before and didn't get into Utah until early in the morning. I don't think this was a good evaluation of how good they really are.

I think the NBA should do away with back to back games. Just look at how bad teams struggle on the back ends of these games. Look at how poorly the Jazz play on the back end of games. So let's not start jumping up and down over this win.

The NBA is about entertainment and putting the best product on the floor. Eliminating back to back games would go along way in impoving the product. NO played back to back on tues and wednesday and the Jazz don't play again until saturday. I'm sure they could figure out a way to spread it out better. Tues and Wednesday back to back can't be all that good of a tv draw.

King-Black at Dapper | 2:19 p.m. Jan. 8, 2009

You know what Dapper2k I would consider your point, but if it were the jazz coming off an back to back and played NO and have gotten smashed like this, all sports writers would have been glorifying NO and saying the Jazz are no match for them despite still playing without Boozer and D-will being sick, ya Sap is doing good but were still not at 100% rotation which i add to you would just be sickening if we were.

But once again D-will was sick, no Boozer and still beat em by more than 20, come on if it wasnt a back to back maybe they would have just gotten beat by 17 or so.

But on top of that NO got beat by more than 20 points i believe twice by Jazz last year so face it NO is just no match for Utah. Besides there 2 lone wins to the Dwill-CP3 era to 9.

magnus | 3:08 p.m. Jan. 8, 2009

@ Dapper2k

I actually think the things I listed don't depend on how tired the Hornets are. I think last year the Jazz relied too much on Boozers production, he struggled against the Lakers, the Jazz lost. I think the same will be true this year for the Hornets.

I only partially agree with you on the back to back games. I think most NBA players should be able to play back to back games once in a while. What I think they need to change is playing back to back games during long road trips. Playing 4 games in 6 days, on the road, is just too much, especially when they have to jump on a plane or bus after every game and travel for several hours.

They do it for economic reasons, but I think the rule should be that there should be at least 36 hours off after every road game.

Thats one of the things that makes the 72 win season so freaking impressive. Every season when the schedule is released there are probabaly 5 or so games every team can just go ahead and mark down as losses because the schedule is so brutal.

Anonymous | 9:54 a.m. Jan. 9, 2009

If the Jazz traded Boozer for Wallace that would put the Jazz's salary at 68.5 million next year. The Jazz could not resign Millsap. Even is we buy out Harprings Contract - Resign Millsap at 9 million a year - the Jazz would not have money to fill an entire roster.

Next year salaries
AK - 16.5 Mill
Dwill - 14 mill
Memo - 9 mill or more if he opts out
Millsap - 6 to 14 million (my guess it will be around 9 million)
Wallace - 9 million

That 57.5 million for 5 players. Add Brewer, Miles, Korver, Koufas and Fess 13.6 million

The Jazz would have 1 million for 2 back up point guards

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