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Utah Jazz: Thunder beat Jazz for 7th win

I am a season ticket holder and I want to have faith in my team, but I am just tired of the same old same old. The jazz are great at home, and can't beat a mediocre catholic girl's school team on the road. In my biased opinion the Jazz struggles are 30% injuries and 70% lack of heart. They will probably make the playoffs only to be knocked out by the first tough team they face.

This season is over....focus on developing the younger players and call it good. Price, Fez, Kosta, Miles, and Almond should start.

sad

the Jazz can look so good for a while at home and then just fall apart so often on the road. Not very professional. If I had such up-and-down performances in my job, I'd be canned and they'd find someone who could get the job done consistently. At some point, because this keeps happening regardless of who's playing, ya gotta think the coaching staff has some accountability.

This is worse than humiliating. The Thunder stink. Tired of D-League basketball we kicked them out of Seattle and were happy to see them leave. This is embarrassing. Bring out the paper bags.

WOW. I guess Jerry not doing his job. He did not even tried to stop bleeding in 3d quarter. so same story ...

The Jazz are a mediocre team that has occasional flashes of brilliance. There's just not enough there to be much else. The will to bring it every minute of every game is what divides average teams like the Jazz from great teams like the Lakers.
I cheer for the Jazz but have gotten too aggravated with the sloppy turnovers, motionless defense, and clanked jumpers to watch more than a few minutes.

RE:AK FAN

How does a coach stop the bleeding when the players don't care?
The announcers alluded to it as well as Harpring.
Harpring stated that you can not go down by 10 to 20 points in the first quarter and expect to get back in a game on the road.
If you read between the lines then first quarter means the starting five players. This is the way the Jazz have started games on the road last year and this year. Starting five looked like they were highly unmotivated and there is a trickle down affect to the bench when that happens.
If they start with energy then the rest will follow but you cant start out down 15 to 20 points and expect the bench to come in and recover the game for the starting five.
I say bench the starting five on the road the next couple of games. Whats the worst that happens that the bench actually show the starters how to start a game.

Why Jazz fans expect some thing different is beyond understanding. Does anyone get the fact the Jazz will yield same results, regardless of the team composition? The mastermind behind the inconsistency is Jerry "blame-the-players-and not-me" Sloan.
The Jazz could have Jordan,Kobe,KG and Duncan... still lose on the road or when it counts the most.
Why people expect different result when the coaching methods have never changed.
What is more disturbing is the Jazz, regardless of who plays on it, constantly find a way of getting blown out by the NBA laughingstock teams on the road, after a modest success at home.
It is sad but championship is still miles and years out of Utah.

Very disappointing. Anyone want to buy my season tickets?

Are utah football, and byu basketball. Jazz are mediocre. Along with byu football and utah basketball and real salt lake and the blaze.

I agree with those who commented that the problem first and foremost is with coaching. The tone is always set at the top. That begins with Sloan. He is so pathetic to watch during and after the games. He never calls timeouts when he should, and then he calls one the other day when they had a three on one breakaway!

He constantly instills ridicule publicly about his players. He is the same old same old predictable coaching style that discourages players who have much more potential. Just look at his body language, he never smiles and looks unhappy all the time. If I had a boss like that, I would under-perform as well! It is time to get someone who can inspire young talent to develop. The only reason the Jazz wins at home is because the fans motivate the players. Without the fans, all you have is coaching, and Sloan is no motivator!

Even with complete lack of heart the Jazz should beat the Thunder!

When D-Will was a rookie, I could justify the team's struggles on the road. But this is a team that has made it to the Conf. Finals! Their horrific performances on the road are simply inexcusable.

Perhaps the Jazz somehow cheat at home...maybe that is how they are so good in the ESA.

Over a thousand career wins...yeah, Sloan is the problem.

I would love to be proved wrong, but I doubt outing Sloan for his shadow-puppet Phil Johnson will solve anything.

that was embarrassing!

I'm amazed to see there are people with enough time and money to burn to watch (or pay to go to) and follow the NBA. I'll believe the bad news on the economy when we don't have enough money to burn on this useless tripe.

The jazz were flat, pretty sad considering they're trying to get a playoff spot, but, they're still a good team, and they'll bounce back. You'd hope they would've handled the thunder, oh well, when you're hot you're hot, when you're not, you lay an egg; if they played intense defense the thunder wouldn't have shot over 50 percent and outrebounded them by twenty; the balls weren't bouncing the jazz way, but, that's not the jazz fault, they got to do something else to make things turn their way; this game is typical of the laissez faire charachter that plagues the jazz. They should've won this game, no matter what; no millsap and booz, the jazz probably would've won with millsap because he wouldn't stand for that mess.

To all you guys that say that it isn't Sloans fault that they can't win on the road, that it is the players who are not motivated enough or dont execute or whatever.. Isn't that what a coach is there for? Motivate and plan.

I am no longer a Jazz fan this season. I have decided I don't care anymore. I'm upset I payed money to watch and support these guys against Detroit. What an embarrassment. I'm taking a break this year and will wait until next year to start up hope again. This loss is inexcusable and in a season that the Jazz do this is a season where they will NOT make it to the top. Sorry but that's the truth. They may end up doing well but sorry I cannot and will not believe that anything comes of it this year. Man this is rough....first my Cougars and then this! Ugh, I may just quit being a fan altogether. Maybe if I'm up to it good luck in 2010 Jazz!

This was the most PATHETIC game i've seen them play all season, i am embarrased to call myself a jazz fan, their defense was ridiculous and their hustle was worse, on the other hand for all the AK fans: AK was the problem, his shooting percentage is fastly falling off a cliff, what a joke, what is he the last two games: two for what a HUNDRED? Ak has been nothing but a flop the last couple of games.