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Jazz vs Mavericks | Friday December 3rd @ 8:30pm

You guys are a bunch of jokes.

It's sloan's fault that Jefferson missed how many shots inside the paint?
It's Sloan's fault that we shot 21 percent from the 3 point line (CJ 2-6)?
It's Sloan's fault that we couldn't capitalize on our 30 to 11 advantage from the FT line?
It's Sloan's fault that Kidd looked like Reggie Miller?
It's Sloan's fault that Fransico Elson doesn't know how to inbound the ball?
It's Sloan's fault for Deron just having a sucky game? And for AK not showing up? And for Raja taking a night off?

Jeez.... Is this HOF coach ever going to please you people? I think we could win the championship this year and some of you would criticize the way he holds the trophy.

Jeez.

Relax.

The Jazz had a bad game. The zone through us off a bit. But I think we'll execute better with time. Al just barely is getting used to the offense against man to man. It's going to take some time for our team to get it going against a zone. If anything, I doubt we have enough 3 point firepower to consistently beat a zone. Not until Memo comes back... Or Hayward all of a sudden develops... Or until KOC pulls a trade for Stevie Jackson...

One thing I wanted to point out, I was given row 5 tickets tonight. I'm usually in the nosebleed section so tonight was pretty cool. However, I noticed something that I think is worth mentioning:

Deron and AK were having spats ALL night long. At the start of the 2nd half, Deron called out High C. He proceeded to call it out 3 times. AK was clearly running the wrong play and kinda threw his head back like, "oh duh, ooops, my bad." Deron gave him a scal, and then proceeded to go one on one off the broken play since the shot clock was winding down.

This happened at least 2 more times during the game.

Another time, Deron was calling out a play, and AK went halfway over to one side of the court, realized he was on the wrong side of the court, Deron gave him a look, and AK went over to the other side to set a screen. The screen was poorly set and it looked as if AK was meant to be coming off the screen instead of setting it... The play was broken and a forced Jefferson jumper was the result.

Blame Jerry for this loss all you want.

But if our max player who's been in this system the longest can't run the plays right, then we're not going to win against a team like the Mavs.

Blame Jerry for this loss, but if our PG is outplayed by his counterpart and his backup, then there just aren't many teams we're going to beat...

We can blame Sloan for not playing Fess more, not preparing our guys a little better for the zone(despite not having a single 3 point shooter that scares anyone), and for not trying out Evans or Hayward...

But the main focus should be on our team. They didn't match Dallas's intensity, didn't execute well under pressure, and missed too many shots/FTs.
 
AK can be frustrating sometimes. For someone who has been on the team for that long he occasionally makes rookie-like mistakes.
 
Fire Sloan's senile ***. He has lot it clearly. He is driving this team into the ground. We need fresh blood and some coach with better grades in coaching 101
 
“They were very good defensively,” said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan. “They made it difficult for us almost all the time.

“But we played into their hands a great deal. Give them credit for taking us out of it, but we forget where we’re supposed to go sometimes.”
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Thriller, I think Sloan kind of endorses your observation.
 
I hope they take the game footage of this and burn it. Sucky game all around, the best thing they can do is forget it and move on, and hopefully get revenge in a week.
 
Definitely a bad game overall and one I hope the team doesn't forget but puts behind them all the same. No time to sulk about it, we are still in a good position standings wise and will only improve in the next stretch of games.

Time to start a new winning streak.
 
First game of the year I have got to see, and it had to be a stinker ru. Missed most of the first half before I found it on TV. Could not believe we could play so bad. Seemed like everyone was trying to look good on national TV. Poor team play.
P.S. I live in the Philippines and get poor internet reception in the area I live, so ESPN and NBA.com channels are the only games I can watch. Man was I disapointed!
 
Worse game of the year for the Jazz. I give Dallas a lot of the credit but it seemed like AK, DW, AJ, Raja and Millsap were completely disinterested and confused. The zone seemed to completely confuse the team and they just wilted under Dallas pressure. Hello can anyone guard Dirk or Jason.

The second unit played a lot better in the second quarter but the achilles' heel for the second team is the lack of outside shooting. Heck the whole team sucked at outside shooting so the Mavs were able to pack the middle and keep Millsap and Jefferson at Bay. Our lack of height was obvious. It is just one game and the Jazz are known to put up stinker games but I can tell you that other teams took notice tonight and I am sure the Jazz will be seeing more zone.

The Jazz need to upgrade their wing position. Raja is a backup this time in his career and CJ is well CJ, Mr. Inconsistent. Okur will help when he comes back but the Jazz are obviously lacking consistent outside shooting.
 
I agree with a lot of what Numb and a few others said, the Jazz players got out played and hustled in the 2nd half as well as got out coached in the 2nd half, it probably wouldn't have mattered but it seemed coach Sloan in the late 3rd early 4th was scared or not trusting his bench. Now normally if you have to rely on a bench player(s) to win or comeback its not a good thing but they played pretty well in the first half and so far this season had been largely responsible for getting momentum back.

Thriller I remember a couple of the plays you mention with AK and he didn't seem to be the only one however. I don't think any Jazz player had a good 2nd half but Bell and AK seemed to especially disappear and the only time you noticed any of the other starters where because of mistakes or blown defense.

Most of the credit has to go the Mavs for out playing and out working the Jazz, just hope the Jazz remember and learn from this and make them pay for their over zealous celebrating.
 
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