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Utah @ memphis 3/21 (6:00 pm mt)

Worst loss of the season. Lots of blame to go around, but the return of discombobulated D is what did us in. It's too easy to beat us on D. Every team should have the same scouting report: No early shots, pass the ball around, and eventually the Jazz D will break down for an easy bucket. Part B of this is the team has no reset button. Blown D happens to the best teams. But the best teams just forget the last possession and buckle down. We cave.
 
I don't think the guys have given up as much as I think they have given in. This team tried to outrun its problems in the first half of the season - all those miraculous double-digit deficit comebacks. But everyone kept saying "hey, you know we really cant keep this pace up, right?" and they were right. This team burned out waiting for Jefferson to figure out the offense, but by the time he did it was too late. The others covered for it as well and as admirabley as they could, methinks. I just think they wore out in the process. And then the whole thing with Sloan and the DWill trade just blew it all to **** in the end. This is a lost season, which is a shame. We don't have many of these, lets hope it stays that way. Hopefully the draft picks parlay into something of value.
 
The O was pretty terrible, too. We're just so bad when the shot clock gets down to 12 seconds. The crazy thing is that's still half the shot clock. But you can see Jazz players getting panicked at the 12 second mark instead of realizing the 'first half' of the clock is gone, and the 'second half' is still plenty of time to break down a D.
 
sad...

maybe the real reason Sloan resigned when he did is that he suspected there was a good chance this team was going to end with a losing record, and he wanted to go out while they still had more wins than losses...

I'm half joking.
 
Locke's Tweet
@lockedonsports Utah Jazz fans this is hard a season. We started with an unreal Southeast trip and is likely ending with a lottery pick -- Stick with it. We have been very fortunate to not experience this type of season. The culture of the franchise is still strong. Pieces are going to have to develop but we are already seeing that. A new leadership will have to emerge and that process will be what to watch and enjoy. It is different than what we have done in the past. It is still part of the journey and part of being a fan of a team
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Why doesn't Locke or any other local reporter grow some stones and ask Raja is still playing.
 
After looking at the box score, I might have to give the offense the nod over the defense for futility. First of all, does anyone realize we took SIXTY SIX shots? That's not as bad as it sounds since the average shots per game is probably somewhere around upper 70's. 25 free throws doesn't help it that much. But you have to run a lot of late clocks to get as low as 66.

For more fun, Al and Paul COMBINED for 22 shots. Favors took 3, but I distinctly remember his two makes were jumpers. Evans took 6 and I'm not even a hundred percent sure he was playing the 4 but whatever. So you can argue that the Bigs took 31 of the 66 shots which isn't bad. But I'd guess Millsap took at least 6 jumpers, Al about the same in push shots, which means our Bigs took about 15 shots in the rim area. That's based on what I remember, but that would officially be really horrible.
 
"Jazz's Watson said team began season with goal of winning Western Conference."

I'm thinking about starting the "The Official Utah Jazz Jazzfanz Cathartic Thread of Catharsis" in which we would all, filter free of course, mash our keyboards and sing curses to Bell, KOC, Corbin, Satan, Gandafi, whomever, whatever we needed to get through this. Its gonna be rough as **** to see Portland, NO, Memphis in the playoffs and not us
 
Nate505 said:
I really enjoyed watching AK single-handedly take the Jazz out of the game in the 1st quarter. Makes the League Pass money seem so worth it.

Oh well, at least the draft should be interesting this year, as will next season. If they have a next season.
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He was just following Bell's veteran leadership, it's obvious if you want more time like Bell then you have to play like Bell.
 
Jeditiger said:
I don't think the guys have given up as much as I think they have given in. This team tried to outrun its problems in the first half of the season - all those miraculous double-digit deficit comebacks. But everyone kept saying "hey, you know we really cant keep this pace up, right?" and they were right. This team burned out waiting for Jefferson to figure out the offense, but by the time he did it was too late. The others covered for it as well and as admirabley as they could, methinks. I just think they wore out in the process. And then the whole thing with Sloan and the DWill trade just blew it all to **** in the end. This is a lost season, which is a shame. We don't have many of these, lets hope it stays that way. Hopefully the draft picks parlay into something of value.
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Did he learn the offense? Is that why he had so many great individual games? It looked to me like he just said to hell with the offense and did his black hole thing. I mean when he gets the ball everyone else stands around and watches. There is not the cutting and movement that I used to see when our bigs had the ball, just let Big Al go one on two or three. He is pretty good at that, but it does not seem to help the team. How many of those big games he had did the Jazz win? Very few.
 
LOL

Zach Randolf was only 3 rebounds short of outrebounding our entire starting 5. Even CJ outrebounded our center, Al Jefferson.

Until Millsap and Jefferson learn how to box out, this team will continue to swim through the lottery.
 
green said:
Why doesn't Locke or any other local reporter grow some stones and ask Raja is still playing.
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Why doesn't Locke ask why Al still doesn't know how to box anybody out?

My hell, he typically outrebounded by SGs and SFs. Not good for a man striving to play Center. Same goes for Millsap.

You would think that 60+ games into the season these 2 brainless morons would have learned... Shot goes up, put your body against a man. Standing and watching to see if the ball goes in the hoop isn't boxing out.
 
The Thriller said:
My hell, he's typically outrebounded by SGs and SFs. Not good for a man striving to play Center
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Is that your final answer? You know he's the 14th best rebounder in the NBA, right? Ahead of such names as Duncan, Garnett, Boozer, Lee, Tyson Chandler, and Andrew Bynum.
 
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