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Also our players kept slipping in the second half. I've never seen players slip like that. I feel like lodging a complaint with the Wells Fargo Center. I'd be emarassed if I was in charge of that. The moppers HAVE to do a better job.

Biggest difference tonight was FT shooting. They shot 14 more than we did. We used to have a guy who got to the line a lot and drew fouls on the other team.
 
Boozer was an inside presence? Aside from the pick and roll, all he really does is shoot free throw line jumpers.
 
Biggest difference tonight was FT shooting. They shot 14 more than we did. We used to have a guy who got to the line a lot and drew fouls on the other team.

Yeah, but he left 8 years ago to play with the Lakers and then retired.
 
I certainly don't like to see the Jazz go down like punks, but this is a slump and they do happen. Seems every year the jazz go through something like this.

And you know what? So does everyone else:

case in point.

Boston lost to Washington tonight

Losing first quarters, shooting (and missing) a bunch of jumpers instead of getting to the FT line, and getting nothing out of our SG position aren't slumps, but critical weaknesses of this team. Opposing teams are now beginning to exploit the Jazz.

We're not in a slump. We're just playing like we have most of the year. It's just that other teams aren't choking in the 4th quarter like they used to. Other teams are now more familiar with their own players and have improved. Consequently they're more solid in the final quarters of games. Think Lebron and Dwade could choke another game away like they did against us early on? Doubt it.

Unfortunately, we're not improving. That's the scariest thing. If anything, we're regressing...

Is this team even going to make the playoffs?
 
Boozer was an inside presence? Aside from the pick and roll, all he really does is shoot free throw line jumpers.

Go watch the Boozer 09-10 mix from the thread I just bumped. Dude was on the team six years and people say this is all he does.

How did he get so many and ones by shooting jumpers????? And points in transition too? Do Jeffersap even know what points in transition are????
 
That.

I wouldn't call our current predicament a mere "slump." It's something much deeper than that. A slump doesn't involve getting man-handled in most first quarters we play, losses to cellar-dwellers by 10+, etc. Changes need to be made. This isn't something that's going to simply "work itself out" given some time.

Losing first quarters, shooting (and missing) a bunch of jumpers instead of getting to the FT line, and getting nothing out of our SG position aren't slumps, but critical weaknesses of this team. Opposing teams are now beginning to exploit the Jazz.

We're not in a slump. We're just playing like we have most of the year. It's just that other teams aren't choking in the 4th quarter like they used to. Other teams are now more familiar with their own players and have improved. Consequently they're more solid in the final quarters of games. Think Lebron and Dwade could choke another game away like they did against us early on? Doubt it.

Unfortunately, we're not improving. That's the scariest thing. If anything, we're regressing...

Is this team even going to make the playoffs?
Exactly what they both said. I was arguing the same thing with a friend of mine during the game. He was trying to sell me on this bogus slump garbage. I'm not buying it. The Jazz have been playing from behind the entire season.
 
These last 4 games have been pure misery and I wondered tonight if I would ever see the Jazz play good again. But I believe it's going to gel. There's too much talent to be playing this bad.
 
Can someone please explain to me why Raja Bell is averaging 30 minutes a night?

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