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Utah Jazz post a costly victory over Bucks
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Time to put it in the next gear Paul Millsap. CJ Miles, keep playing like you are, earn that 4 million dollars.
If Okur can shake the dust off, and Williams can return healthy, we will be fine with out Boozer. We play better without Boozer than without any one or more of the big four.
There is a bright side to injury and adversity. You get to see Ronnie Price and C J step up to make some real contributions. The rest of the bench, like Kosta, get an opportunity to perform and get some experience.
Just keep plugging along and weather the storm. The Jazz are not the only team with injuries!
Jazzaholic
The experts on the subject have spoken, everyone else just needs to start listening!!!
Unfortunately, quite frequently exuberant offensive prowess means lack of effort on the defensive end. I guess, it's specialization at work: offensive folks spend more time on creativity (designing offensive plays), while defensive guys on analytics (how to control his defensive position or go for a steal/block).
Good luck at the Alamo! Lets steal one while pesky little Ginobili is out.
you can score 25 points every night, but if the other team scores 30 points you lose. you also have to play defense.
in this sport you need to play on both sides of the court.
Hey, I thought cloning of humans was illegal! But, we'll take it, what with having only one PG healthy.
Wonder if Jerry learned anything from the 2nd quarter. He put three slow defenders on the court at the same time during that Bucks run. Oddly, all three are known to be scorers, but none did during that stretch.
This game shows both how deep the Jazz are and how much a constant, energetic defense makes a difference at both ends of the court. Wonder if they picked up on that enough to help them in this next road swing?
Can Miles continue to have confidence in his shot enough to get double figures in San Antonio? He's always been talented, but it's been between his ears that needed straightening out. He seems to have done that in the past few games. Time will tell. We'll need him to continue to perform with all these injuries.
Looks like Millsap will have the opportunity to shine again, hopefully. He'll certainly get the minutes with Booz out.
Stop carping about our coaches and certain team members. These guys bust their chops every night and do a pretty good job, especially at home.
That being said, I predict that Koufas will send Fes baco to Russia in a year or two.
I have not been a CJ Fan and he has a long ways to go to be a complete player. Maybe Price adjusts when Sloan tells him to? Maybe CJ is slow to adjust?
If they put Almond in DLeague and force him to play point guard it will cure him of many of his problems.
And to the other guy who wants to see Fesenko play with Koufos -- dude, Fesenko doesn't deserve any playing time. Koufos has played well so far, but Fesenko just doesn't have it going for him.
On another note, Milsap and AK were fantastic! They are amazing on both ends of the floor. Their defense is what got us back in the game. Miles had another consistent game. Yeah, he didn't play very good defense, but it wasn't particularly bad either. He came through on the offensive end again. About Sloans critisism, that's just his style. Always expecting more out of his players. He has done it with everyone on the team. Like someone said above, they are grown men, I'm sure they didn't get their feelings hurt.
Statistics showed that the players that were cursed at and criticized consistently made an average of 1to2 more free throw/10--a 10-20%% better.
What was also interesting was the multiple player comments were similar in nature "I wanted to prove to the critical coach that I could make the freethrows". "The yelling and cursing made me focus more and there was PRESSURE to be sharp". "I could not be lacadaisical because I did not want to be yelled at for missing".
Now obviously that is not exact science but it is what it is.
Sloans coaching style works. He wants CJ to get better but in CJ's mind hes a scorer. Sloan knows that offense comes and goes but if you defend you can still play when your shot is not falling. Sloan knows CJ is a good enough athlete to play good D. Teaching moments.
I ask--do the Jazz need offense or defense?
Case closed!!!!
Now look at Sloans background, he is a farmer. I don't know one person who farms or works the earth that can stand one ounce of waste, whether it's a scrap of food or a couple minutes of their time (that includes talent and effort). sloan is doing nothing but trying to get through to these guys and help them reach the potential he sees in them. Most of his players would walk through fire for him.
And if there were a scrap, or something happened, Sloan would have everyone of their backs, (including Collins and Ostertag when he was here). I for one think that we are lucky to have Sloan.
I have to say this season though he has been the glue that has held this team together with all the lineup changes. His passing has generally been fabulous. In the absence of Deron he is getting alot of offense running through him and has delivered.
He has been one of the most consistent players. Other bench players have some big games and then disappear/fade but AK has been filling the stat sheet and more importantly he has made some big plays at some game-changing moments. Steals, assists, blocks, and even rebounds.
He has been simply awesome. Our record would be .500 or less right now if we had the AK that played last season. I think he gets alot of the credit for helping some of our new players (Brevin/Koufus) fit in as well as they have and also helping CJ and others improve their games with his tremendous passing.
With AK playing like this we are a pretty deep team.
I hope Booz is not injured bad. We can't afford to lose more consistent scorers.
Go Jazz.
Of course, the fans always know more then the coach or players.
Yes, he had blocks. Yes, he had steals. They happened at critical points in the game. They helped bring us back.
But,I think he kept us in this game, because he was able to get to the free throw line.
I believe he only missed one.
He is getting a lot of points from the free.
He's been the most consistent from the free this year.
Sixth man of the year award.
he needs to keep doing the little things that got him going, and only evaluate himself on those things; because those are the things the jazz need from him, on top of that, 25 isn't going to hurt, but it isn't going to be putting wind up sloans skirt either.
What AK brings to the game is not captured much of the time in a stat. He changes shots, makes offenses change what they do, stops little quick guards from driving the lane and creating (Which is something that has KILLED us in the past) because they have AK to deal with.
So stop being so stat loving and try to understand what a player is really out there doing to help the team win. You don't have to have 20 and 10 to be good.
I would also like to comment on those saying we won't miss Boozer as much as the others.
I think you are dead wrong. The Jazz will miss Boozer badly. They will miss his rebounding and most of all they will miss his ability to score with his back to the basket. I don't think any of the people saying we don't need Boozer understand how much pressure having a guy like Boozer puts on the defence.
Hopefully the 8-10 weeks rumors are just that and he can get back on the court soon.
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