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Decent debut for Utah Jazz's first-round pick

Nice to hear. Man, I'm gonna miss the Rocky Mtn Revue this year!

Boozer should also be playing in this summer league, to improve his defensive skills, if he has?

Anonymous, or should I say Guest), you are as transparent here as anywhere else. Try to stay on-topic, and check your hate at the door. lol

The Jazz can use an inside-out man like Maynor. Solid debut, young fella! Love the atttude, too...it's conducive to winning.

CJ3 I did'nt know that you are a Boozer fan, oh you are pathetic..sorry though

I didn't watch the game but it sounds like my man is off to a good start. After watching Maynor in college I was hoping the jazz would be able to pick him, he's very competitive, he wants to win, and he plays basketball because he likes the game. Way to go.

the talent for the Jazz team? Loss by 30 points!! Maybe that is the problem with the Jazz, poor scouts not knowing what talent looks like. Lets see what happens tonight.

I see Hansbrough played 25 min and scored 17.

Sorry to say, but this isn't preseason it is a summer league. The Jazz's roster looks like a bunch of no bodys'. THe worst summer league roster I have ever seen. I hope that have some big moves in the near future if not they will be in trouble. I thought Corbin might be a replacement for Slown, but he sounds just like SLown. Need to find a replacement outside of the Slown system.

Maynor looked pretty good most of the time. As far as there being an organized Jazz offense to run that was a laugh. It looked a lot more like a pick up game with refs and coaches.

Even if Maynor understood what he was supposed to run most of the other players were not in position or running what they were supposed to run.

Most of the Boston group were experience and they played more like a team with some set plays. They were organized.

The "Jazz" were not organize. Which is to be expected since there are too many players on the roster and most of them do not know the offense and most of them have not played with each other or in summer league before. Lyde and Augustine (played before) looked better.

Anyway Maynor looks promising and should get a lot better as the team gels. It is hard to get a good bead on Suton. He occasionally had a good move or two. Give Suton a year of playing time at the faster pace and it will be easier to see how good he is.

Honestly people the Jazz have no opening on the team this year. Boozer, Okur, Williams, Brewer, Miles, Harpring, AK, Koufus, Fes, Maynor. Who would want to play for the Jazz knowing that you have no chance of playing? Jerry has already written up his rotations for the entire year on his chaulk board (we know he doesn't use a computer). If you make the team now, the only playing time you will receive is due to Boozer, AK and Memo being injured most of the time.

Hansbrough was long gone before the Jazz drafted. Maynor looks like he will have a chance to be a good backup to D-Will. Other than that nobody on the summer roster should make the team so it's not worth getting all worked up about. As long as Maynor progresses Summer League is a success.

Wow people...this is just summer league. It is not Pre-season and it has no indication on how the jazz will do. There is only Maynor, Suton and Brown (who charlotte sent over to play on the jazz, because they didn't want a team in the summer-leauge) who have a shot of playing in the nba...the rest of the guys on our team are nobody's. Guys like Lyde who make the summer league an anual thing. Trust me the jazz will lose all the summer league games. I hope maynor and suton do well though.

And as for hansborough goes, trust me a few years from now you'll be happy we chose a solid-back up point guard apposed to him...and the fact that he was gone way before we had a chance...I think the jazz would have stuck with Maynor even if Hansborough was on the board at 20.

Hopefully the jazz can pull off the trade with Detroit for Hamilton and the jazz will be just fine this year.

Who cares. We all know Sloan won't play him, but rather will play some "veteran" at the back-up point. Obviously, the Jazz may re-sign Price and if so he would play. For once, I wish the Jazz would just committ to giving the rookie the back-up position, so long as he doesn't stink it up. Why draft a guy and not play him? Seems like that is what they did with Almond and what may happen here. Doubt Fezz plays any either, and Rocky probably will only get a few mins. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, Sloan. Most over-rated coach ever.

Gee Golly Batman, maybe if the Rookies worked hard and understood the game of basketball as the likes of Shandon Anderson, Anrei Kirelenko, Paul Milsap and Deron Williams that Coach Sloan would and will play them.

Slown played Milt Palacio and Keith Mccleod over DWILL. THere was a stretch dwill didn't even play. Larry Miller had to tell SLown to play him. Slown doesn't play youngsters very often. Your list is short compared to the number of rookies that have played with Slown.

Robin, Cowboy Joe is right, D-WILL did come off the bench, but Cowboy Joe D-WILL did come off the bench and played, so Robin was right on that. Later in the season he started. If you looked at other coaches in the league, such as Phil Jackson, it would be interesting to see if he played any rookies in his coaching career. I don't think he played to many of them. It might be a small list that Robin has, but it shows that Sloan will play Rookies, if the heads are on straight.

Robin perhaps you should go play dolls. Sloan hates rookies. The four you named would have started as rookies on any other team in the league. I hope Almond sticks somewhere and averages 15 points a game with 2 steals and 4 assists and if named to the all defensive team. That would be complete justice!!

Hey Micheal the Jazz had a tuff nosed big player he knocked Tim Duncan and Marvin Williams around. His name was Rafa Araujo. I don't think that he is the best player, but the dude was tuff and would give some hard fouls. They need him or somebody like him. I rember Araujo pushing around Duncan and Kmart neither wanted to mess with him. THat must tell you something. Bring back Araujo. He won't be pushed around and will be an enforcer for DWILL other wise you will have a hurt DWILL because nobody will protect him. Micheal just "beat it"

I think Sloan will play Maynor over Price. The reason Price got stuck behing Knight is because Knight was a true point and Price is a combo. Maynor is more of a true point. I expect to see Price get the backup job at first but by the half way point I can see Price leaving in a trade and Maynor being the back up. I think the Jazz are ok and could get to a 4th or 5th seed with no major injuries. I don't see them getting past LA or SA and maybe Denver but I don't think they lose a 7 game series to Houston or Portland. I think 6 or 7 close games with those 2 but Utah wins. They have a solid core. Not a great or championship contender core but a solid one. After this season they need to really push on the trades and FA to get to a contender status. I think they need to start with a better center and go from there.

Maynor will turn in to a really good pick for us- I hope DWill is pulling some strings for Augustine, I think he would be a fine backup center... I don't know what to think about Suton yet, I wasn't real excited about the pick to begin with, and I'm still not.

Oh good lord. Sloan has forgotten more about basketball than you basketball coach wannabes have ever learned combined. He has more knowledge in his left pinky than all of your petty little basketball brains could ever imagine. Come back when any of you have actually done any NBA coaching, or ANY coaching for that matter. What a bunch of pathetic losers. Is that your mommy calling up the stairs? Why yes, yes it is.