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Game 42: Jazz 92, Wizards 88
Posted by: TACOREV on January 23rd, 2013
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.After building up a 22-point lead against the lowly Wizards (9-31, 3-18 away), the Jazz narrowly escape embarrassment, clinging to a four-point victory.
Millsap had a great game, finishing with 16 & 15, Hayward had 15 & 5, and Foye added 12. Jefferson chipped in with 11 & 10, Tinsley with 11 & 6, and Kanter put in 10 off the bench.
I had a dream last night that Tinsley would score 32 points tonight. After scoring six in the first few minutes of the game, I almost began to believe that it might happen. Still, one of his better games. I like some of the street-ball attitude he brings, but he often gets a little too fancy and ends up turning it over (including five turnovers tonight).
Martell Webster led Washington with 15, while John Wall came off the bench for 14 & 8. Bradley Beal scored 12, and Emeka Okeafor grabbed 17 rebounds.
Another little anecdote: watching Hayward and Jordan Crawford playing on the Larry H. Miller court reminded me of the greatest basketball game I have ever witnessed in person. It was when ESA hosted the NCAA Sweet 16 round, and my brother and I scored free tickets to see Hayward’s Butler Bulldogs beat Syracuse. The second game was between Kansas State and Xavier, and it was an incredible game (Crawford played for Xavier). Instead of typing out a whole spiel about it, I’ll just post a link to this video.
Anyhow, the Jazz are now 23-19 and sit at No. 7 in the West. A visit to L.A. to face the Hated Lakers (17-25) Friday is next on the agenda, before hosting four consecutive contests back at the Solution.
Jazz player of the game: Paul Millsap
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Of the next 13 games, Jazz only play 5 games against teams with losing records (@Lakers, NO, Kings, @Kings, @TWolves). Jazz are 5-15 against teams with winning records, so this stretch is going to give us a more accurate read on the Jazz. Jazz play 7 of the 8 games against winning teams at ESA. At the end of these 13 games, its the trade deadline.
I missed the game today but I was keeping up with the score. What the hell happened in the 2nd half? From the looks of things Kanter couldn’t have had a batter game, except more minutes.
Looking forward to the lakers game, just because they are so bad. Howard will probably be out with this injury, and
hopefully they keep gasol in the second unit just so favors can destroy him. Go jazz!
Tinsley was actually alright tonight. Thats what a starting pg should average if not more. Big Al was really bad. Kanter was killing it and should of got more of his minutes. Corbin being Corbin! Burks needs all of Watsons minutes. He is such a useless pg. standing around doing absolutely nothing while Burks, Hayward, Foye or whomever is playing with him at the time takes over his pg duties. Burks need consistent minutes without fear of being pulled. Also Wizards have some young nice talent in Wall, Beal, and Crawford.
player of the game: Tinsley.
Looks like Carroll and Burks had a rough night. Need to cut down Watsons minutes by about twelve more.
I agree with Guido. Tins was something else tonight.
You dream about Tinsley, Taco? lol
Also, let’s steal some of that nice young talent of Wall, Beal, Crawford by trading them Al and/or Millsap.
Jazz bench destroyed them in the first half, then the starters let them gain some momentum and it carried over into the bench’s second stint, but hey we still won. Millsap was great, Jefferson was not. I’d much rather see Burks than Watson. Burks would stop making rookie mistakes and decisions if Corbin actually gave him some playing time to develop and get comfortable. We saw that when he got a good stretch of games with decent minutes.
If Tinsley keeps playing like he did last night, KC, maybe I’ll be dreaming about him more often, if you know what I mean.
I agree with everyone on Watson. Man he is terrible. Him continuing to get minutes at Burks’ expense is as dire a crime as there is occurring in this sick world today.
Agreed Tacorev: how is it Burks plays against Heat but noy really against Cavs and Wiz?! Thats when Corbin should go out of his way to play Burks (and Kanter) a lot of minutes cuz those teams are so bad.
As per usual Al struggles against bigs that play solid D (include LBJ too), Al’s rebounds usually happen when teams dont crash the boards, Wiz shoot like crap, so they crash, and Okafor got 14 rebounds. Thats a preview of playoff Al should FO keep him. Thats what we are in store for.
Id take Okafors bad contract everyday all day if I could get Wall. I dont think its far off. Beal looks legit and has 4 years to go. Wall, however will not resign with Wiz, so all next year Wiz will have to deal with trade talk and the possibility of him leave. They should focus on Beal and say lets use Wall to become competitive so we can keep Beal 4 years from now. Al they can resign or use that free space to sign FA, plus Jazz will take Okafor, plus theyd get 2 additional picks from Jazz to use or trade away to build around Beal. Wall is possible.
What happened to all of the talk about offense and without AL this team wouldn’t be able to score?