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Utah Jazz: Fisher knows there's no quit in Jazz
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Get ready for some fun with the Lakers. Despite the outrageous rebounding, the Lakers still beat the Jazz. When was the last time the Jazz ever won the championship? It looks like the Jazz's path to ultimate glory will end soon. Probably the Jazz's best chances to win in the West is to play against the aging Spurs, whom probably can beat the Jazz like the Lakers are.
Enjoy what is left of the Jazz. The formula for winning under Sloan has not translated to championship(s).
So, Jazz, be physical and all, but it is a wasted effort to be an obstacle in the Lakers way to glory.
Sounds like Fisher has been providing some locker room entertainment for Phil and the gang.
Doesn't matter what anyone in the media says: I will ALWAYS think D-Fish is a Benedict Arnold Traitor!!!
And I will ALWAYS boo Da-Fish whenever I see him.
Now, if he signed with the Nicks or the Nets, I'd truly respect him for "living closer to where his little girl could be treated."
Besides, Da-Fish never played that great of defense...
I hate the Lakers and I cannot say I love the Jazz. I hate to watch horrible basketball. The problem with the Jazz is that they are totally capable of beautiful basketball but lack the heart to maintain it. The only consistancy the Jazz have is Slown's predictability and the Jazz's inconsistancy. Hate to say it, but Lakers in 5. Go Celtics.
To all Jazz fans,
You utah people kill me, you keep having this on going internal assurance that miraculously the jazz are going to win an NBA championship. They never have... Just like how all of you think that the BYU football team will win a national championship... Listen.. IT"LL NEVER HAPPEN... The Jazz and the Cougars are the biggest chokes in the leagues... If the jazz couldn't get it done with Stockton and Malone, how will they ever get it done with Boozer and Williams?
Go Lakers...
"Good luck stopping the MVP"...KOBE...
Here's a warm and fuzzy: In 1988, we pushed the Lakers to 7, putting the Jazz on the NBA map for the first time ever. Then Utah beat LA in 5 in 97 (Kobe's rookie year)...and swept them in the 98 WCF.
So, even with Sunday's loss, our all time playoff record vs. the Lakers is 11-6.
Another tidbit -- Jazz have won at least one game IN Los Angeles in each prior series...as they will tonight.
Hey I don't care - glad to hear you still plan to boo Fisher. It's just that idiotic mentality that keeps players from wanting to come here and the national media depicting us as back water hillbillies. Spoze you were one of the geniuses throwing stuff on the floor after the Spurs game 4 last season. Well played.
Anyone here still give the Spurs a chance vs. NO? I'm not convinced that series is over.
Good luck Jazz -- make it 12-6 vs. the Lakers in the playoffs tonight.
On a positive note, it may not be this year, because I'm not sure Booz can recover his confidence soon enough, but this is one of the youngest teams in the NBA and they are just getting better. If they can keep the nucleus together for 3-4 years I think Sloan gets a Championship or 2. Especially if Booz put some offseason effort into getting better on the defensive side.
I'm not giving up on this year, obviously, but Booz needs to snap out of it for any chance of that to happen.
Oh well, as Charles and Kenny like to say, now they've "gone fishin"!!!
I guess the 2nd best defense was not quite as good as the "20-year-old, tired, predicable offense".
This series with the Flakers is not over--win or lose the Flakers will know they played the toughest team they will face all year.
I will stand and BOO Fisher, nice guy and all but he's a Laker and I hate the Lakers. At least the Jazz didn't do a video making fun of him like when Karl came back as a Laker.
Thanks for that, I appreciate you letting us know you are a Laker fan so we can totally disregaurd your opinions.
Tonights game is going to be a battle, I think the Jazz are going to have to shoot the ball resonably well to win.
So here's my prediction, IF the Jazz shoot over 30% from outside the arc and IF Boozer posts a 20/10 game, the Jazz win, if those two things don't happen...
THE JAZZ STILL WIN!
The Lakers are going down tonight, at home, and the series is going back to Utah all tied up. Kobe is going to score 30+ but he will shoot less than 45% from the feild, DWill is going to attack the center of the Laker D until it crumbles, and the Jazz will outrebound the Lakers again.
Jazz in 6!!!
1 and 1 entering our 2 games at home would be sweeeet!
GO JAZZ!!!
Boozer will continue to play like a girl.
Dwill can only do so much.
Memo and AK are awol.
The refs will not give our team any leeway on getting fouls called. They must protect the big market team and the mvp.
Wish it wasn't so, but it is.
PS. Everyone needs to get off Boozer's back. He is doing OK. He is getting double doubles every game, and if the Lakers concentrate on him, the others need to step up. The Jazz play team ball. We don't need someone trying to be a superstar.
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Utah led the league in fouls per game with 24 FPG. GM 1 they committed 33 fouls, 93 above average. Sloan said after the game that his team committed too many lazy fouls and probably had 5 jersey pulling fouls because they were a step too slow.
Take those lazy fouls away that Sloan called out and you're down to 28 fouls.
Now go back and watch the end of the game - just the last 3 minutes and you'll see 5 more fouls by the Jazz to stop the clock and send the Lakers to the FT line.
Take those clock management fouls away and you are down to 23 fouls.
Now, is it seriously hard to believe that the Jazz couldn't commit 23 fouls in one game when they average 24? The Lakers were called for 27 fouls - actual fouls - not shot clock fouls. So even then it's a 27 to 28 foul comparison. How exactly is that calling it loose on one end and tight on the other end?
Stop blaming the refs for poor defense. Sloan didn't.
What do YOU want? Another 20 years of big men failing us in the playoffs? Another 20 years of young talent leaving? Another 20 years of unathletic teams getting burned in transition?
I hope the Jazz get some answers on how to beat the Lakers. Do something different, throw fish off, be different than what he's reporting to the Jackson camp.
GO JAZZ!!!!
Hate to break it to you but so does everyone else. It's called high pick and roll with 2 or 3 side roll options for open shots or cutters. It's the same offense that Stockton and Malone ran for years. It's the offense that Fisher ran in HS and college.
Sloan isn't a great coach because he has a secret playbook. He's a great coach becauses he coaches his team to play the pick/roll to perfection.
So - as a Lakers fan I'm glad because Fish belongs in LA and adds stability and maturity to the team but I definitely don't think he's adding a great wealth of insight to the Jazz secret plays.
Jazz shoot 38% from 3-Point land
Jazz will make 80% of their free-throws
AK47 will get:
-10 points
-5 rebounds
-3 assists
-4 blocks
-2 steals
If these 3 things happen, we will win and come back to Utah with a lot of confidence. I believe we will win three straight starting tonight, lose game 5, and then win in SLC in game 6.
Being a loyal fan is not about championships. It's about sticking with a team during the high and the lows. I don't care that they haven't won a championship. So stop bringing it up as a focal arguement because it blows. I would rather have a team of players that I respect than a bunch of championships and guys who I morally can't stand...
It's funny that to a Jazz fan any time another team is winning they assume the fans of that team must be bandwagon fans. It's like a cycle of abuse - you are constantly abused by a false sense of hope each year so you assume others must be doing something immoral to have such happiness.
Isn't that better? Now watch Kobe dump 30 on you tonight. Our session here is done. Goodbye.
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Bring your gloves, it is going to be an all out war, of which...The Jazz are going to pound on you all night...So no more whining Mr. Phillip Jackson, no more flopping Kobe Bryant, and make sure all of your players are there, healthy and ready to go, as We are going to beat the best you have!
Enjoy the rest of the finals from your Hollywood bar, because you will be watching the Utah Jazz take home their first NBA Championship!!
Jazz will dig deep and win this series. Ohh....I almost forgot, thanks for the great series in case I forget to tell ya later!!!