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Game 45: Rockets 125, Jazz 80
Posted by: TACOREV on January 28th, 2013
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.The Jazz embarrass the state of Utah and their entire fanbase with the worst home loss in franchise history.
Houston (25-22, 10-14 away) literally had its way all night long, whether from inside or out — getting to the basket at will or knocking down open 3’s whenever their hearts desired.
James Harden led all scorers with 25, with five other Rockets posting double figures. Omar Asik only scored four points but grabbed 19 rebounds.
Foye’s 12, Favors’ 11, and Jefferson’s 10 marked the only double-digit scorers for the Jazz. Rookie Kevin Murphy scored nine points in 12 minutes.
There’s no excuse for this. None. Hayward didn’t play, the Rockets shot out of their heads (hitting 16 3-pointers), the Jazz had a bad game… I don’t want to hear any of it. Losing by 45 points in the NBA — on your home court nonetheless — is never something good or even average teams do, regardless of circumstances.
It’s not all that surprising, when you think about it, because Corbin does not hold the veteran players accountable for being lazy and not bringing effort and energy each and every game. So it’s only a matter of time until that loser mentality rubs off on the young players, and the entire team just starts mailing it in on an increasingly frequent basis.
The Hornets — er, Pelicans — come to town Wednesday night.
Jazz player of the game: Kevin Murphy
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Where do we get our money back?
24 days until the trade deadline. That’s all I got to say.
This joke of a team is only missing a big red nose and clown feet.. FK man.. young guys are gonna mail it in soon.. they know when they show out they aren’t recognized so wtf… joke joke joke.. this only shows if we make the playoffs its a waste freaking time…. why even write on this REV.. smmfh.. shows gordons worth..
…………I hate to see the Jazz lose. And Im getting tired of having to point out the same thing over and over but Jazz cannot beat winning teams fron the West!! 3 wins all year?! In the playoffs you have to win 4 in two weeks. Jazz cant win 4 games in 3 months?! I dont even think the trade deadline will help, at this point. Jazz FO seems happy with Corbin and Al and the vets….Its getting harder to see the light at the end of tunnel.
After weeks of lobbying for patience, I think the time to hit the panic/reset button is now. (By now, I mean before the trade deadline. Talks won’t really heat up for another week or so.)
I would think that management can see that we won’t be a winning team with Al. I only watched the 1st quarter before heading to a jr. jazz game(yes, dead serious, and the effort their was much better) and I still can’t count the amount of times I saw Al playing lazy.
I think there is no debate between Jazz fans now on keep Al or not. I just hope Derrick & Enes see that their time (hopefully) will be coming soon. If I were them, I would have said f*** this a lot earlier in the season and asked for a trade.
Where are all the Corbin and Jefferson apologists now?
Ho…ly…Crap!
Lol @ pintz
how about not singling any one? This was a team melt down of unacceptable portions?
What happen more often… Steph Curry rolling his ankle or the Jazz mailing it in under Corbin? haha
Where the !@#$% are the screens and assignments. What !@#$% plays are we running on offense. WOW. where is the timeout for teaching moments with the youth to tell them what they are or are not doing right. Were down 30 and the starters are even on the court?? Nevermind. Why the !@#$% is corbin still here.
A game like this brings everything back into perspective. the even more hilarious thing is how some of the local sports radio shows were going on and on about how this team needs Jefferson and how clutch he is in the fourth and OT… Lmao, oh wait Jefferson must have started 0 for 6 tonight right?
Jazz player of the game : Gordon Hayward … enough said.
The Jazz players are a freaking joke. If we are 0-82 without Mo Williams and Hayward, then I say after last night they should split 80% of everyone else’s pay. Cause clearly the team can’t even compete without them.
This team couldn’t do a thing right last night. You can miss shots and the other team can be on fire, but if you hustle and continue to fight, you DO NOT lose by 45. Losing by 45 at home or on the road is an utter disgrace. I know people will say: “It’s only one game”. Well it only takes ONE GAME of my team absolutely quitting and not caring for me to get pissed. I don’t care if we aren’t the best team in the league, I just want to see good competition. This team didn’t even try last night. There was NO effort. That is unnacceptable, whether it’s 1 game, or 1 quarter. You don’t do that in the NBA. I can’t believe how little these men care. Have some pride!
With the pace that the Rockets like to play at I worried when I heard that Hayward wasn’t going to be playing. Then I turned the game on when the Jazz were six down on the first quarter. I thought maybe we might still be in the game. Then it happened. The players stopped trusting one another to have any sort of threat and the Rockets just raced past them.
I’m always surprised at how underrated a defender that Gordon is. I wish he would grab a few more defensive rebounds but I like how he never really allows for a player to get an easy bucket too often. How many times has he ran back to interrupt a player on a fast break. We could have done with that last night. He is our fastest returning defending player and last night he was missed in a big way. Had he been on the floor last night he might have prevented or at least contended the first couple of fast breaks and taken the life out of Houston but without anyone doing that in his absence Rockets were content to do it all night. If this is how teams are going to attack us from now on we are going to be in trouble without the likes of Hayward and Mo to run back if they are out for any length of time. Without the pace of those guys we could be in some serious trouble.
What has happened to Favors and Kanter? Kanter is getting his points in his limited minutes but last season he was a rebounding machine. Favors strength is his defense and his athleticism. I want him on the floor ahead of Al, but his rebounding has gone down too. I could live with him scoring less than Al but he needs to defend but right now he is a culpable as the rest of the team when it comes to second chance points that other teams have been getting lately. When Jefferson can’t shoot for #*#%, those two guys should be coming in and defending this team back into the game. I didn’t see any of that last night. The only way we were getting back into last nights game wasn’t by shooting our way out of it but shutting up shop and making their shooting percentage fall down to or level and then raising ours.
It was clear to me early that Al was struggling for any sort of consistency with his shot and by the time he discovered it the Jazz would have no way back why didn’t Corbin just put Evans on and keep him in the defensive end of the floor just to contest fast breaks. Something unconventional needed to be done last night, and when Al isn’t shooting its no loss not to have him on the floor. I’m not saying Evans is a defensive king but if we had at least someone slowing down the Rockets attack the rest of teh guys might be able to get the chance to help out.
I’m sick and tired of teams playing the Jazz with a plan and executing that plan well for a minute or two while Corbin contemplates a timeout response. When this team is in trouble, its need direction, or at the very least a breather. Why are teams allowed to go on runs of 7, 10, 11 points without a response? Other coaches, experienced and not use timeouts to interrupt the flow of opposing teams as much as to help their own team.
OMG that’s hurts…
if the players dont see it like just a game, could be very a very difficult experiencie and hard to get up and still fight
I hate to run the risk of being tarred and feathered by being the lone dissenter, but, yes, it is only one game. I remember the “60″ Yankees playing Pittsburgh, stetting all kind of offensive records to only lose in the seventh game by a walk-off home run by a second baseman. The first match-up with Bird and Magic when the Lakers would just kill Boston in LA and lose by only 1 or 2 in Boston and ultimately lose the series. I think we’re overreacting.
Does anyone really believe that we are going to contend for a championship this year or next. Unless we can draft a Magic Johnson, or the like, I think not. It’s going to be a long process. I have no idea of how astute the “front office” is going to be, but I do know that it is going to take a lot before we contend. We need a Kevin Durant, or similar, and he hasn’t won a championship yet.
@Robert
Again, it IS one game. Mathematically speaking you are correct. However, I do not accept quitting as fan. I don’t care what length of time it is. We deserve better than that. We stand behind this team and make crap loads of noise at that arena, and all I ask is that the players give effort. They didn’t do that last night.
It is only one game and our reaction as fans possibly is an overreaction. However last night may just have an opposing team capitalizing on some inherent problems in within the Jazz organisation. For a while now this Jazz team panics when teams go on a run. The players stop trusting the offense of their teammates and shoot up jumpers of their own. They overreact in the defense. This allows runs to be bigger than they otherwise would be and gives the team bigger holes to dig themselves out of. Lately the team has won a decent number of games but they have done so by building decent leads and then letting the game get closer than they should be. This team has a tendency to panic, and is over reliant on Al getting his shots.
Anyway on a side note, it seems that Toronto a looking for someone to take Calderon so that they can make the deal for Gay work. It’s not going to solve this team’s issues but it would be nice to have Calderon here to cover for Mo’s injury.
I agree with you Steven. How many games have the Jazz started badly? How many games have the Jazz blown leads? The thing is the Jazz have not been exposed by the Cavs, Wiz, Pistons, etc. But against good teams from the West, that kinda effort loses games, and when that effort is zero, that turns into 40+ point blow outs!
@Kevin
I totally agree with you on that. I would never excuse last night’s play. I’m just trying to think long term. Maybe last night’s lack of effort will make the front office have less difficulties in making changes. One can hope.
I agree with Paul this was a team loss , not just Corbin and Jefferson . The way they played as a team dictated this game . I couldnt beleive all the missed screens for the perimeter shots . There was so much confusion and a lack of effort .
@ Robert A. Vawdrey you took the words out of my mouth , you all have been screemin for the FO to make a move , now maybe this game shows that they need to do somethin .
On a side note I have to say that I was sreamin at the Rockets for takin all those 3 pt shots when the game was claerly out of reach for us . It seamed that they were content to just jack up 3’s and rack up the score when it was clear the game was over . I have a hard time seeing that as respectable .
But I geuss they were on fire they shot a high % in all thier shots . This may have not been our game to win anyway , I agree that we should have seen more effort from the players . They make alot of money to just suit up . I am not a superstar but I would have gave way more effort than that with what even the rookies make .