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Game 52: Kings 120, Jazz 109
Posted by: TACOREV on February 10th, 2013
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.The Jazz get handled by a bad Kings team in Sacramento (18-33, 13-12 home) in front of an energetic crowd.
Isaiah Thomas scored 25, Marcus Thornton 24, and Jason Thompson 21 & 7 for Sacramento. DeMarcus Cousins contributed 13/11/6, while Tyreke Evans added 12 & 6.
Burks led the Jazz with a career-high 24 points, getting to the line often and knocking down all nine free throws. Jefferson scored 16, Kanter with 15, and Carroll 14.
The first half was back-and-forth, but the Kings rallied early in the third quarter to take a double-digit lead, and the Jazz never really got back into it.
Corbin’s main man Watson was back in the lineup, and Ty didn’t hesitate to going right back to playing the Watson + Tinsley point guard rotation for 40+ minutes. The two were repeatedly torched by Isaiah Thomas all night long.
The second straight Jazz loss drops them to 28-24, now 8th in the West, with the Thunder (38-12) coming to town Tuesday — the first of three games before the trade deadline on Feb. 21.
Jazz player of the game: Alec Burks
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Zippy PGs vs Tinsley / Watson and Athletic Bullying bigs vs soft Al is the recipe to beat the Jazz. Bulls had that (Robinson and Noah) as did the Kings (Isaiah/Thornton and Cousins/Thompson).
Name me the last game Watson or Tinsley had 24 points in a game.
This playing veterans over superior (albeit raw) talent is getting old and is seriously the stupidest thing ever.
#FireCorbin (first time I’ve ever posted that)
#FreeBurks
#UnleashTheKanter
Just give up on this crap (Tinsley, Watson, Al) that’s getting us nowhere but an 8th or 7th seed and start the new era already!
Tyrone Corbin is an incompetent dingleberry. He can’t even get his team to run a flex offense correctly. Jefferson and Millsap are too slow and are frequently out of position, constantly running into eachother and getting in the way of their teammates’ rotations. This team manages to execute maybe one offensive play successfully per game. The lack of disipline and overall sloppiness is painful. Players still wander around looking confused. No one is on the same page.
The fact that Corbin played the worst backcourt in the NBA for 40+ minutes is a sign of just how stupid he really is.
This is bad, people. This is one truly dysfunctional basketball team.
Agree with all thats been said!
Like I said before, if Jazz plan on not DNPing Watson and Tinsley, and in fact play them 40+ minutes, Jazz were gonna lose every game but TWolves. Now Im starting to think @TWolves might be a struggle.
Burks is special! I wish he would have just taken the game over, but I guess he thinks he needs to pass up shots so Corbin doesnt DNP him when Hayward comes back. That something hell learn: when you got it going take the game over!
@KC: Realistically, I don’t even think this team makes an 8th seed. It’s benefitted from an easy stretch in the schedule, and still hasn’t been able to make as much headway in the West as it should have.
Soon we’re going to start playing good teams more consistently again, and a lot more road games again. Looking at the schedule, if this Jazz team doesn’t start (A) beating good teams at home and (B) beating anybody besides bottom feeders on the road, we’ll finish below .500 and most likely out of the playoffs.
Both A and B will hinge on the trade deadline, as well as Corbin getting over his love affair with the vets. If he doesn’t change his approach, we can expect more of the same: losing to most good teams at home, and losing to everyone other than bottom feeders on the road.
But as we’ve seen repeatedly, the only thing that can change Corbin’s approach is when injuries force his hand to do so.
I can start trends too look…
#DontFireCorbin