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Game 63: Knicks 113, Jazz 84
Posted by: TACOREV on March 9th, 2013
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.The Jazz get their butts kicked in New York (38-22, 22-10 home).
J.R. Smith scored 24 and Steve Novak had 20 to lead the Knicks, with Raymond Felton scoring 15 and Chris Copeland adding 12. Kenyon Martin and Iman “Huge Flat-Top” Shumpert each put in 10.
Burks led the Jazz with 14, Hayward had 13, and Kanter contributed 11 & 7.
Nobody else did much of anything.
I’ll keep this brief because I have better things to do on a Saturday night (especially after wasting a couple hours watching this crap).
The effort and energy weren’t there. Nobody played well, really, and we gave up open looks all night long to a team playing without Carmelo Anthony or Amare Stoudemire. It was the last game of a four-game road swing in which each preceding game was a heartbreaker, but that’s no excuse to come out and play with such a lack of… everything.
The road trip now mercifully ends with an 0-4 mark, 32-31 on the season — all tied up in 8th place with the Hated Lakers (we own the tiebreaker), who can pass us if they beat the Bulls tomorrow.
Next up is a visit from the Pistons (23-41) on Monday.
Jazz player of the game: Enes Kanter
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Jazz aren’t fighting for Corbin anymore, and why the hell should they! And Corbin’s boys are not very talent, so this is just a product of that.
Jazz need to #FireCorbin ASAP! Completely redo starting line up and rotation, and maybe we can salvage the season.
I have to agree with Omar on this one
needed to go to favors more in the post..they did at the beginning of the game and he kicked it out and we started making 3s. Steve Novak vs Derrick Favors?! Lets go to Al(3-9) vs Tyson Chandler (Defensive player of the year)!
Every one played bad tonight except the big Turk. I saw he even made a three pointer?? Guys looked lost out there. Plays are being broken up and no one was being aggressive. Stockton needs to teach these scrubs how to set a damn screen.
o my good lord, knicks really kick Jazz butts…
Talked to GM today. Corbin’s not going to be fired for at least 2 more years.
No sense worrying about it.
Corbin getting the ax wouldn’t change a thing. And it ain’t going to happen anyway.
I guess I know what I am doing over the next 2 years…..#FIRECORBIN!!!!
Sisyphus….#FIRECORBIN!
Straight dookie garbage since the all-star break… the lakers must have been destined to make the playoffs wtf… these past 2 years have been the worst…. even the Kris Humphrey days.. so defeated as a fan.. still we will not see what we have on the bench. . And dammit milsap n Jefferson wAlking for nada, aint that a btch.. these will eventually be suppressed memories .
Fire Corbin sounds like the same Sloan crap we all heard for years.
Sloan can’t win a championship–that was true.
Sloan won’t play young players–that was true also.
Sloan is too old to relate to today’s players–that’s true too.
Sloan sticks to same tired offense and defense–you bet!
Sloan limits his rotation to only 8 players almost all the time–oh yeah that’s a fact.
Fire Sloan. Now fans want him back! Not going to happen.
Fire Corbin. Not going to happen either.
We’ve got to get off this “fire Corbin” band wagon. It’s going to take a while to get this team where we want it.
Anybody ever think that Omar might work for the Lakers!
LMAO!!, @Jack, that makes absolutely no sense, haha?! Where exactly do you get the Lakers from anything I post or comment? Maybe I work for GSW??? If I work for the Lakers I be posting a ton of post about why Al is the greatest center of all time, Kanter and Favors suck and are overrated, Mo is a true PG and Burks is trash, Hayward is only popular cuz he is White. Corbin needs time, Watson is a leader and needs to be on the court as much as possible…etc….if I was a Lakers fan.
Check the comments on other sites, like SLC Dunk, or even the comments on new reports about Jazz, on Twitter, on Facebook….and I don’t even have an account there!!! Lol! There they actually insult Corbin!! With profanity! I’m just say….#FireCorbin!
Can we talk reality, let’s talk about now!! Someone needs to go right to the face of Corbin and ask him if he is watching the game?? There is not ONE reason to have Big Al on the floor for more than a spot roll, without a Big man who will intimidate people from eating us up in the lane, we are going to struggle. Great defense creates easy offense, we are so bad on the defensive end with AL in the game that it is killing us on the offensive end. We also need to grab Gordon and remind him that he is not an premier scorer in this league, he needs to pick his spots and play to his strengths, ( spot up shooting, getting out on the break, and hard nosed defense ) Lately he has lost sight of who he is and his game is terrible, out of control and looks like a rookie again. A good coach would see this and make some adjustments, all TY does is look like a lost dog on the sideline and we keep getting are assses beat in winable games. What I want to know is Ty afraid to chew someone’s butt or what?? I would sit Al’s butt on the bench, I would work Mo back into the flow of the game, and I would play the 5 guys who give a Damn about stopping someone on defense. I have never seen a team with the talent that we have look so lost, and have almost everyone on the floor trying to do things that is not in their game. When this happens, this is the result that you get, we can’t win the close games, the ball seems to never bounce our way, and we completely fall apart like we did in New York.
How long is it going to be before TY sits AL on the bench and goes with the line-up of:
1- Favor’s
2- Milsap ( if he starts to play hard )
3- Carrol
4- Randy Foye
5- Alex Burks
With Kanter getting major minutes rotating with Milsap and Favor’s. Mo getting spot minutes to pick up the tempo and Gordon playing minutes on a game to game basis. If he decides he is going to play within himself and do what he does best, which is DEFEND, hit the spot-up shot, and get out on the Break, then he should get starters type minutes with Foye and Carrol. If he is going to put his head down, crash into the lane, throw the ball away, NOT DEFEND OR REBOUND, then put him on the bench and use him to spell the starters with Marvin. Al sitting on the bench for most of the game might teach him that if he wants to play defense like my 6 year old, make the offense become stagnet, and allow opposing guards to come down the lane with no resistance, then keep him OFF THE FLOOR!!!!!!
I just cant believe the Jazz coaching staff cannot see that until we put 5 guys on the floor that are going to play HARD-NOSED, TOUGH ASSSS defense, then our offense is going to struggle….Does anyone remember the last time we got out on the break for an easy dunk??? This is a direct result of terrible soft defense, when we start to play 5 guys who give a dam about stopping someone of defense, is when we are going to start being consistent and winning 5,6,7 games in a row, until then we might as well get used to seeing what we have the last few nights!!!!
How pathetic are you Jazz Management and Coaches, try getting in one of the players face and asking him “If they can stop anyone, maybe raise your voice TY!! Helll maybe play Jeremy Evans, at least he will give you effort!!!
SAD SAD SAD display of wasting a pretty talented Team!!!
MoMan
The management didn’t make any moves at the trade deadline because they felt like we were a playoff team that’s why they chose to stay put. How’s that working out for ya management? I agree with Omar. But I will take it a step further. Fire jazz management besides Dennis (because he hasn’t been here long enough to judge him)
I noticed some comments made about Sloan. One thing I have to say about it is Sloan could at least get effort out of his players and they respected him. Can’t say the same about Corbin. Yeah Sloan didn’t play young players when they were rookies but rarely did it last longer than that if the players had talent and gave effort, then they saw playing time under sloan. Cant say the same thing about Corbin. If you don’t believe me look at Wes Matthews for example, he was an un-drafted free agent and by the end of his rookie season he was a starter. That’s almost the equivalent of Kevin Murphy being a starter this year. Sounds crazy right? When it comes to Corbin and Sloan there is absolutely no comparison.
I believe we have a fundamentally broken system that starts with jazz management and even ownership. Do I think we need a coaching change? I say yes. Do I feel like it should be a former coach or someone currently on the coaching staff? I would say absolutely not. We need a coach that can come in and bring his own different system with him. Not some morphed, un-practical form of Jerry Sloans system. If Corbin wasn’t coaching the jazz right now what other team would he be coaching? I feel that Corbin lacks the basic instincts that defines a solid head coach. I would have to say I have joined the fire Corbin movement.
#FIRECORBIN.
What an all around fantastic game.
Back when Kanter got (very) limited minutes, I remember that almost every game he would get into it a little bit with someone. I loved it. I haven’t seen that in a while and it makes me depressed.
2011-2012:
Lakers
Mavs
Jazz
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Rockets
GSW
2012-2013
GSW
Rockets
Jazz
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Lakers
Mavs
I agree Uottakno that management needs to change especially KOC. Since getting the C4, what have the Jazz done??? Traded Harris for Marvin, and PTE for Mo. The 2012 trade deadline Jazz stood pat; the 2012 draft Jazz stood pat; the 2013 trade deadline Jazz stood pat. And all I heard or read was “its hard to make a trade.” I look at where we are now? We have made zero progress: Roctets and GSW got better, Lakers and Mavs got worse…..but now the Lakers have got fire so Jazz have actually falling to 9th best team—last year we were 8th….with CJ, Howard, Bell on roster. Wtf?!
So we have gotten worse, all the while our two #3 picks are getting worse minutes than Adam Morrison?! And what I read and heard was, “we want to remain competitive and play in the playoffs.” So we keep playing mediocre to scrub level vets in order to be competitive in the playoffs thats why we sacrifice the youth….but by playing mediocre to scrub level vets we are probably gonna miss playoffs AND not develop our youth?! Im confused?? How the hell is this a good idea?
Okay, so how do we fall from the 8th spot in 2011-2012 to the 9th spot in 2012-2013 and think we are doing a good job and no one from management needs to get fired, no one from coaching needs to be fired, no one from the vets needs to be bench??!! Lol! This is ridiculous! Someone please help me understand!
OMG FN more Corbin opologists. It makes me sick! Corbin is offensively clueless and a rotation idiot. How long would you guys wait before you would have a change! Omar, Jared, Uottakno, and Nick are spot on. I’m fearful no change will come and the same old BS will continue. You other guys can be content Jazz drones. I will not. #firecorbin #firekoc
Whatever happens with the end of the season, the future is pretty simple. It’s finding out if our guys can be what we need them to be, what we hope their potential is. Corbin hasn’t allowed us to find out, because of his love affair with veterans. I’m not sure if the FO will look at that and let all the vets go so Corbin is forced to play the young guys or what, but that’s what I want. Let’s find out what we got, because we KNOW what we have right now, and that’s a group of veterans who aren’t good enough to make the playoffs by themselves, and maybe will BARELY make it, but only because of the great bench we have bailing them out all the time.
It was tough for me to see the Jazz go out like that against the Knicks. I think the best thing we can do as fans is to keep rooting for them and don’t give up on them. Sure they have been having a streak of losses, but that doesn’t mean they won’t come back. Trust the coaches and what their doing with the Roster.
Trust is earned, not given.
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