Comments about ‘Utah Jazz finally get the Memo’

1. Good job Jazz! The T-Wolves always seem to give the Jazz trouble, so I'm glad they didn't trip up our guys in our last "easy" game of the year before the six-game spanking machine coming up (San Antonio, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Houston, San Antonio) followed by the playoffs.

2. "...allowed Utah to become the fifth team with at least 50 victories along with San Antonio, New Orleans, Phoenix and the Los Lakers..." Los Lakers? Hee hee! But search Google for "the Lakers will be wearing" and click the first result. Maybe the News meant to say Los Lakers after all. :-)

We love the TURKISH DELITE! This man can play the game. His drives to the hoop and rebounds are where it all starts. Then he will desrtoy you when you pack it in. Memo is a monster and when he plays physical the Jazz can win. He has an extremely nice longball. Sinan's fellow countryman is one of our biggest keys. I can't wait to see him hav'n coffee and Dunkin' Donuts friday night (and then some juicy Turkey). Fess needs to saddle up for 5-7 minutes against the Spurs so he can pound on Oberto Gonzales and introduce him to the flavor of the ESA floor. Also Matt Boner needs a warm welcome to ESA (remember when he downed Williams in the WCF last year). Toughness counts now and the playoffs start Friday Night where Rebounds loose balls, bumps, bruises, elbows and floor burns will be in fashion. Let em bust butt and then "SEND SOME MORE OF EM IN" we can go 10 deep. Increase effort at all times and reduce minutes as needed. Go Memo, go Sinan, Go Jazz. It's TURKEY TIME. Um tastes like chicken.

My binocculars are ready for the playoofs.

Memet is looking good. We like him.

Gary S. is right, our 6 game remaining schedule will be tough as they are all fighting for playoff position out west and we are still 2 games away from clinching a playoff spot.

Jimmy thinks getting the top seed is completely out of the question and that we need to start rooting for certain teams to win in order to better our matchups.

Jimmy would be happy if Houston finished with the fifth seed (to the Jazz's 4th) so we need to root for them to pass Phoenix. Jimmy would also like to see New Orleans finish first so that we could see them in round 2. That would make it so that if we did advance we would only have to matchup against 1 of Phoenix/San Antonio/Los Angeles.

Cha Cha Cha Cha-ching!

Did you guys know Harpring was a football player?

it's sad that we have to start rooting for other teams to lose because the jazz didn't take care of business. At least the last few games will be against good teams....I'm tired of the T-wolves...spurs anyone??

Those last 6 games are killer.

I hope the Jazz can go at least 3-3. If not, playoffs might not happen.

Friday's game is huge with the Spurts coming in.

Next Saturday at home against the Denver Thuggs is the biggest game of the year.

you are correct.
also, am i the only worried that the jazz have beat these gutter teams only due to their 3 point shooting?

Anyone else tired of hearing "Booner" say absolutely to every other word? Speaking for myself I can definitively answer this, ABSOLUTELY!

Great job Jazz. Very well knocked-down shots by Memo on 3rd period. My countryman made me smiled and i send him my best regards. Korver did good job too. Korver and Memo are like howitzer. We need 2 or 3 more games to say we're at playoffs. Tomorrow morning i'll drive to Ankara and come back to Istanbul at night. About 600 miles. Then at 3 am of Saturday, i'll be in front of my TV to watch the game with SA. I hope we win otherwise i use my howitzer :-) By the way, thanks to "Memo to Memo".
GO MEMO TO MEMO, GO MEMO , GO JAZZZZZZZZZ.

I see them winning 4 of the final six. I think they will get the 3 home games and then also Dallas. Is Dirk back? I believe they have the potential to go 6-0 to finish off the season. They have proved they can pick up a few big wins on the road when they won at Boston. I hate the word potential because all it means to me is "could be" and not is. I think they can go 6-0 but to me 4-2 seems more probable

Bolder's new one was - this one is good for ma ma ma money - classic

Nothing beats the cha cha cha cha-ching

Again the Jazz showed they can lose to bad teams if they don't play tough D. And when they picked up their D in the second half, they quickly pulled ahead. If you're shooting 60% and the other team is shooting 50%, you're not going to be ahead by much, and if suddenly you miss a few shots, your lead vanishes. The way things are working out might be perfect because the Jazz players are realizing what is needed. Also, I think it did good for AK to sit the pine and watch the team in action. His numbers are down, but his value to the team is up because he is willing to hit the open man, he is not trying to make the impossible pass so often as he used to do, and he is working hard on rebounding and defense. I don't think he deserves to be a max money guy, but he is still valuable to the team. I love Ronnie Price, by the way. What a hustler and what a dangerous shooter. Too bad he missed SportsCenter last night by two inches. As for Bolerjack, I can't stand all the cliches and repetitive garbage.

Jazz will go 5-1, losing only to the Hornets in New Orleans.

The Jazz cannot win in San Antonio, but I think that they will be focused enough to go out there and get a big time win. However, I'm totally dreading the fact that they could get these guys in the playoffs! SA would probably have homecourt over them if they win a few more games!

These last 6 are very critical for the Jazz because I don't really think they will stand a chance winning a playoff series without homecourt.. UNLESS... EVERYBODY (INCLUDING MEMO AND KIRILENKO) steps up! Without them... on the road, we're in trouble.. you saw what happened with Minnesota.. Imagine how bad we'd lose to say the Suns!

I also think that the Jazz will go 3&3 the remaining 6 games. But even if they don't--they are in. Look at Dallas, Golden State, Houston and Phoenix's remaining schedule, and quite frankly if we lost 5 we are still in. Home court throughout would be nice but that was gone awhile back. FACT--when the playoffs come the only thing important to me is if we can win it all. Too win a round or two and not get to the finals is not good enough. I'm prepared to accept less than a TITLE this year however, but the future is bright fans, and the playoffs will be a hoot.

I have been thinking a lot about defense lately. It is logical to associate defense statistically to rebounds, turnovers, blocks, turnovers,and steals. I wanted to see the difference in statistics between a mediocre defensive team like the jazz and the best defensive team the Celtics.
Here is what I found:

Rpg differential. Both teams are very similar rank 4th and 6th
Boston +2.97
Utah + 2.80

Blkpg differential. Similar, teams are both bottom tier 19th and 26th
Boston -0.25
Utah -0.81

Stlpg differential. Very similar, rank 7th and 8th
Boston +1.33
Utah +1.21

Turnover differential. Very similar, rank 8th and 6tth (- good)
Boston -0.90
Utah -1.23

Fouls differential. Somewhat similar in rank, similar statistically rank 18th and 23rd (+bad)
Boston +0.44
Utah +0.88

So the Jazz and the Celtics are very similar in every way of defensive statistics. Yet the bottom line is this:

Opponents FG%
Boston rank 1st 41.2%
Utah rank 21st 46.2%

Opponents 3pt%
Boston rank 1st 31.4%
Utah rank 12th 35.7%

These results lead me to believe that these defensive stats play a small role in actual defensive. Otherwise both teams would not be so similar statistically. This leads us too 2 possibilities.

1.Good defense comes from great coaching and defensive strategy.
2.Great defense is something that can not be taught by coaching, but it is solely a function an athletes natural talent and abilities.

Some may argue a 3rd option that it is just hard work or intensity. I actually think that is part of number 2.

Anyway,there is a solution to figure this out but I am out of time for now. So if anyone is interested maybe you could look up the Celtics FG%, 3pt% from last year. Same Coach, different players-get my drift?

Atta boy Boozer! All the defensive stats don't mean nearly as much as Boozer committing to play defense and then actually moving his feet, challenging shots, and being physical in the paint all the time. If Boozer mixed it up as hard as Harpring does the Jazz would be much better.

The one constant difference between our wins and our losses is Boozer's defense (of course nobody on-air will ever say it, but it's obvious...even D-Will alluded to it yesterday and I'm sure he was talking about Boozer). The rest of the team feeds off of him. If he plays defense and physically all we need are 17 and 12 a night from him and we'll win. Jefferson was shocked a few times when Boozer d'd up yesterday.....look at the difference in his line from Sunday to yesterday, that will illustrate the point the best.

Can someone find the Jazz's record this year against the teams they are playing in the final 6 games?
For example they are 2-2 against the T-Wolves. I just want to see the series record for each opponent that remains this season