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Utah Jazz: Fall apart in opener
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No D....is possible with this team. Williams can not do it alone Jerry....Jerry......Jerry, are you out there????? Nice game Denver, you all had fun in this cat and mouse game, that is until the last quarter.
They showed they could play defense but for some reason at the end of the 3rd they just forgot how to play at all.
With them just behind a few points in the fourth, it didnt help that some people could not hit wide open shots on two or three consecutive posessions(Boozer) that lead to easy fast break points for Denver that gave them the bigger lead.
If Boozer came to play that could have easily been a win but it was like Utah only had 10 players for the day.
But i'd say Boozer wont have too many more days like this plus its the 1st game. Hey at least they didnt get mopped like Paul and the Hornets.
And no need for bickering Cleveland is 0-2 so I dont want any reporters or sports analyst downing Utah without downing Cavs or Hornets.
Lawson went thru and around Maynor and to some extent Brewer like knife thur butter.
Nobody stopped Nene in the first half. Melo did pretty much what he wanted to. Fez seemed to alter the inside game a lot. He held down his fouls and scored some.
Boozer and Millsap look a lot better in the box score than on the court. The Jazz would have been a lot better with Fez at C and Okur at PF. Sloan should try that. Koufos could have done better than Boozer and probably Millsap.
I am not a Price fan but he did okay.
Forget the continuity garbage. The Jazz had better get ready to make some moves. This team stinks for the money the Millers are paying.
Half of the team played hard and tried. The PFs sucked their thumbs or hacked.
The Jazz need a real PF who can play, defend and shoot. That is not Boozer nor Millsap. They also need a wing who can shoot. DWill kept them in it from outside to some extent.
I would hate to see what the Cavs fans are saying about their team right now.
Everybody besides Boozer played good so much for playing Maynor over Price though he needs to step up his D.
I mean look at Milsaps numbers for the minutes he played I'd say thats pretty good besides the posterize lol.
Utah had this game won but lost it in the 4th its not like Denver manhandled Utah the whole game like Spurs did to Hornets, or like the Magic did to whoever they played, or even like the Raptors did to Cleveland.
OO and @ J FROM PORKOPOLIS
for a second you seemed like you were going to have the best post.. but then I actually read past the first line..
you make absolutley no sense at all in about 60% of that un-funny supposed to be comic type post, which is more than enough for any person to make weird faces while reading it..
I can see what you were trying to do but that was a Big EPIC FAILURE on your part.
But hey, anyone who expects anything different from the Jazz this year need to open their eyes a little wider..
When you keep doing things the same as you always have, why would things turn out any different..
Come on, Boozer, at least make an attempt to get in front of him or at least challenge the shot from behind. How about making a statement you care by fouling him hard to send the message, "you don't want to come in here." Boozer, I'm calling you out. Step up and lead or get out of the way for good!
Williams, Okur, and Brewer showed a lot of heart, but several others were missing in action...
So tell me, why do we pay basketball players so much in the first place! Are they curing cancer, finding a solution to poverty, a rocket sientist? They play a game, which due to an owners greed or need to have a trophy, they often try to buy it, overpay the players. Lets face it a player making 2-3 million a year, will make more in one or two seasons than the majority of the fans make in a life time of work, for what, to play a game, to provide entertainment. If you had talent to get you there, you can play like Boozer or even Fes and sit on the bench and make more money than if they actually had to go out and get a job. Koufos, did he finish his freshman year, Fes, did he go to college in Europe, what do they have to fall back on?
Sigh...
And I stayed up very late (in the Eastern time zone) for that?
Very nice, Boozer.
Did Boozer work on any part of his game during the summer? Doesn't look like it. My guess is that he was too busy house hunting in Chicago/Miami. He continues to be one of the absolute worst help defenders in the league.
Therein lies a huge problem for the Jazz because Boozer absolutely hates contact on the defensive end of the floor. He almost seems to think it is "below him." I see this continuing to mushroom into a BIG problem this year.
Watch the body language of guys like Kirilenko, Millsap and D-Will when Boozer fails to slide over for "help" defense on their man time and time again throughout the game. This will come to a head - just watch.
Manangement has chosen to exceed the salary cap for this? Overpaying for medicore players and inconsistent efforts. They should be held accountable.
Sloan's strength is also his weakness. His no nonsense approach achieves consistent play but inspires no one to greatness.
AK began sulking and stopped playing 2 years ago - He and Jerry should be locked in a room for a while. 5mil for Jerry and 17m for AK. Come on guys. As fans, we deserve better.
Booz - self centered player who's primary interest is a paycheck.
Millsap - undersized, overachieving, hardworking player
Memo - one dimensional player
Brewer - Example of current crop of American players - Athletic guy who can dunk - where's the fundamentals and shooting?
CJ - Makes no one around him better.
D-Will - worth every penny - true grit!
I am passing this year on the Jazz and their groundhog day production. For $600 per game I expect more. High School and College games for me until some changes are made.
Sloan would be smart to reward the player's defesive efforts. Show you can shut your guy down? Get playing time. Show a willingness to rotate over and put your body on the line for help defense? Get playing time. Stop a layup with a hard foul? Get playing time.
If somebody (talking to you Boozer) gets lazy on the defensive end and only wants to put forth effort on the offensive side of the cout - you get yanked in a heartbeat.
Sloan needs to "reprogram" this team. His best weapon is the distribution of playing time, including who starts. That will send the correct message.
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