He's not a one-man team wrecker, that's a bit of an exaggeration. He's a mild primadonna that might be satiated by the concept of a team "building around" him. The problem for the Jazz is that DM is not Batman, he's Robin. No team built around Robin ever goes far in the playoffs. At this...
Can you imagine Sloan as coach of the no-defense Jazz of the last couple of years? He'd be like Norman Dale, except only play Gobert, 1 on 5 against the opponent. Ref would come over and say, "Coach, you need four more." Sloan would respond, "My team is on the floor!"
I just realized while looking at the pathetic box score for this game that the Jazz have players with the last names Fall and Usher playing in summer league. If they had kept House around and he had played summer league, they'd have Fall, House and Usher. Edgar Allan Poe would be a proud fan.
By the way, I was one of the voters who opted out of selecting Stockton, even though I voted for him in the previous two rounds. Those who have speculated that the voter who voted against Stockton had an ulterior motivation are correct (and I see that perhaps a couple of others have also...
Vando? That's what we're going with? Can we at least get a vote on this? How about some other nickname suggestions for him.
Van the Man? Nah, that's too trite.
Vanity Fear? (notice the spelling of "fear")
The MaxiVan? (as opposed to the Minivan)
Spider-Van? (Donnie may have a...
So we're the Oakland A's of the NBA. That's not good. I'm also an A's fan, which isn't working out well for me this season.
I guess the thing the Jazz and Athletics have in common...decent showing in the regular season, early playoff exits. Yay.
Too bad there isn't some sort of intangibles score that could be added to the impact score. Mark Eaton and Rudy Gobert would have high intangibles scores because of the massive impact they made on the defensive end. Defensive intimidation is unmeasurable, especially with Rudy. Hornacek's...
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