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Posted by: Mitch Edmonds on December 27th, 2011
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.Bullet points from tonight’s game.
1) Man I hate LA.
2) Kanter is going to be a defensive presence. I love how much he rebounds and takes up space already. He’s a more athletic Ostertag, much more athletic. Needs to get more aggressive on the offensive side of the ball.
3) Earl Watson and Jeremy Evans should be mutually inclusive. If one goes in the game, so should the other.
4) We don’t have an identity. Stockton and Malone had the pick and roll. Phil Jackson (hate him too) had the triangle offense. The current Jazz have…is “4 guys stand, 1 guy lets the defense collapse on him” an offensive strategy? Finishing the game shooting 32% means you did not run any kind of offense, no matter how bad you’re shooting.
5) When the ball is within one foot of the rim, our bigs need to go up strong. If you get 437 O-Reb’s on one sequence and get zero points, guess what? You’re going to lose.
6) How is it that EVERYTIME we play the Lakers we outscore them on points in the paint and still shoot less than half the free throws they do? It’s a rhetorical question…
7) Big Al was outscored by Jason Kapono, Josh McRoberts, and Devin Ebanks…ugh.
IT’S ALL GOOD! It was ugly, but this is a rebuilding process folks, no need to abandon ship. We expected this. We’re a young team, we will get better. Rome wasn’t built in a day, nor will this team be. The best thing we can do, is no matter the score, go to the games and cheer your heart out for your team no matter what. If you see someone booing us, get your Malone elbows out and Isiah Thomas them out!
65-1! GO JAZZ
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1. Jefferson was terrible
2. Harris stunk it up
3. Bell was awful
4. CJ was beyond awful
5. Good old Staples Center officiating
My one shred of optimism is that last year, the first two games were about as bad as this one, and they ended up going on a good run with lots of wins. Hopefully something like that happens again. Which means we’re going to lose big tomorrow night in Denver
1. if we shoot the ball well from the line, find a way to draw fouls
2. quit giving up and 1’s! If you are going to foul someone, make sure the ball gets nowhere near the basket
3. run a freaking play
4. control the pace of the game
5. play with some swagger instead of playing scared
6. call a timeout when the game goes from tied to down 8 in less than one minute, especially against a team that has historically had our number
1. There was absolutely no order to our offense.
2. Devin Harris is looking absolutely terrible. Trade him while he still has some value? Start Watson?
3. Nearly everyone on the team looked like this was their first time playing basketball.
4. Why didn’t Corbin play Burks or Evans but for a couple minutes even when we were down by like 30 and the guys he had out there obviously weren’t getting it done?
5. CJ will never be consistent. That’s a fact.
6. I found myself screaming at the refs on my tv quite frequently. Same old NBA.
@Zach, I agree with bullet point number 4. I was frustrated with the same thing! We start the second half down by 10 points and it takes Corbin until 3:00 left in the third, down by 26, to make any substitutions. I didn’t understand that at all! I know that coach Corbin was probably trying to let them play through it but when Coach Sloan probably would have pulled all the starters a lot sooner. I know it is the first game of the year.
Sorry that last line didn’t make sense. Just take out the when.
@ Zach and Taco – Yup, CJ is the Jazz’s version of whack-a-mole. And Harris is definitely not the point guard of the future.
This was only one game. Give it a few weeks, and if nothing has changed then we can all start to rant. Remember, there was no summer league for the rookies, no training camp, no pre-season (2 games and a week of practice is NOT a pre-season), no time for Corbin to implement his new defense and fine tune the offense, and our first game was on National TV in LA. Anyone who expected the Jazz to win this game was only setting themselves up for a fall. What we all need to be looking for is improvement from game to game. Not wins over LA on TNT, especially when LA is 0-2, spent the night in a hyperbaric (sp?) chamber, playing at home on TNT, and DESPERATE for a win.
I said it when we traded for Harris, washed up has been. Never really liked him… he’s not a point guard, he’s a terrible floor general, can’t control the flow of a game, forces contested drives.
At best he’s a offensive combo guard, a poor man’s Jason Terry.
The Jazz really need to do something about the point guard problem.