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The last time the Utah Jazz lost five in a row at home was 1982-83. To put that in perspective:

Jerry Sloan was not a Utah Jazz coach. Mark Eaton was a rookie. Thurl Bailey was at North Carolina State about to watch Lorenzo Charles make history. John Stockton was a junior at Gonzaga. Karl Malone was a freshman at Louisiana Tech. Tyrone Corbin was a sophomore at DePaul. Jeff Hornacek was a freshman at Iowa State. Larry H. Miller was just a car dealer. The Jazz had never made the playoffs. Deron Williams, Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, CJ Miles, Ronnie Price, Fes, Gordon Hayward, and Jeremy Evans had not been born yet.

John Elway and Dan Marino were finishing their college careers. Steve Young had one more year at BYU. Ralph Sampson was about to be the #1 pick in the NBA. The Kansas City Royals were good and the New York Yankees were not. Michael Jordan was a sophomore at North Carolina. Len Bias was a freshman at Maryland. Duke had never won an NCAA basketball championship. The Kings were in Kansas City, the Raiders and Rams were in Los Angeles, the Colts in Baltimore, and the football Cardinals in St. Louis. Nobody cringed at the mention of Joe Theismann's leg. Brett Favre was trying to decide if he would return to junior high or not.

Ronald Reagan had not completed his first term yet. Saddam Hussein was our "friend". The Soviet Union was our enemy. The Berlin Wall would still separate West from East for six more years. Apartheid in South Africa would last another 8 years. The World Trade Center was 10 years away from its first attack.

The compact disc was first introduced. Word Perfect 1.0 was introduced. Lotus, Compaq, Symantec, Sun, Adobe, and Labtec are founded. Apple hit $1B for annual personal computer sales.

Eddie Murphy was the biggest star in America. M*A*S*H* was in its last season. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was released. Michael Jackson was black. Roger Waters was still in Pink Floyd. The top ten TV shows were 60 Minutes, Dallas, M*A*S*H*, Magnum PI, Dynasty, Three's Company, Simon & Simon, Falcon Crest, the Love Boat, and The A-Team. The Simpsons were still six years away. Arnold Schwarzenegger had not yet said "I'll Be Back".

I was a senior high school. The Jazz were brutal then, they're brutal now. It's been a long time. You get the point.
 
This is paradise. It is just what jazzfanz posters wanted, no boozer, no Okur, no AK, and no Sloan. We have King Deron and his Minyans. Milsap replacing Boozer, a better shot blocking center in Jefferson, full time CJ, and plenty of time to develop the young players, and no AK loafing around.

Isn't this what everybody has wanted for the last several years?

The beauty of the current situation is it now shows in living color how stupid 95% of the fans really are and how little they know about basketball.

Now we want to work some magical trades with total dog crap to offer other teams and long for the days of Wes Mathews.

Fools.
 
Does anybody remember the hype surrounding the Sampson/Ewing match up? Wasn't that about the same time frame?
 
Does anybody remember the hype surrounding the Sampson/Ewing match up? Wasn't that about the same time frame?

Did they ever play against each other in college? I'm sure it would have been ugly . Sampson had zero help in Virginia.

I distinctly remember the hype surrounding Sampson coming out early the year The Lakers had the #1 pick. People were convinced The Lakers had the NBA title wrapped up for the next 10 years.

Ironically, The Lakers ended up getting James Worthy, who turned out to be a much, much better player.
 
The last time the Utah Jazz lost five in a row at home was 1982-83. To put that in perspective:

Jerry Sloan was not a Utah Jazz coach. Mark Eaton was a rookie. Thurl Bailey was at North Carolina State about to watch Lorenzo Charles make history. John Stockton was a junior at Gonzaga. Karl Malone was a freshman at Louisiana Tech. Tyrone Corbin was a sophomore at DePaul. Jeff Hornacek was a freshman at Iowa State. Larry H. Miller was just a car dealer. The Jazz had never made the playoffs. Deron Williams, Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, CJ Miles, Ronnie Price, Fes, Gordon Hayward, and Jeremy Evans had not been born yet.

John Elway and Dan Marino were finishing their college careers. Steve Young had one more year at BYU. Ralph Sampson was about to be the #1 pick in the NBA. The Kansas City Royals were good and the New York Yankees were not. Michael Jordan was a sophomore at North Carolina. Len Bias was a freshman at Maryland. Duke had never won an NCAA basketball championship. The Kings were in Kansas City, the Raiders and Rams were in Los Angeles, the Colts in Baltimore, and the football Cardinals in St. Louis. Nobody cringed at the mention of Joe Theismann's leg. Brett Favre was trying to decide if he would return to junior high or not.

Ronald Reagan had not completed his first term yet. Saddam Hussein was our "friend". The Soviet Union was our enemy. The Berlin Wall would still separate West from East for six more years. Apartheid in South Africa would last another 8 years. The World Trade Center was 10 years away from its first attack.

The compact disc was first introduced. Word Perfect 1.0 was introduced. Lotus, Compaq, Symantec, Sun, Adobe, and Labtec are founded. Apple hit $1B for annual personal computer sales.

Eddie Murphy was the biggest star in America. M*A*S*H* was in its last season. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was released. Michael Jackson was black. Roger Waters was still in Pink Floyd. The top ten TV shows were 60 Minutes, Dallas, M*A*S*H*, Magnum PI, Dynasty, Three's Company, Simon & Simon, Falcon Crest, the Love Boat, and The A-Team. The Simpsons were still six years away. Arnold Schwarzenegger had not yet said "I'll Be Back".

I was a senior high school. The Jazz were brutal then, they're brutal now. It's been a long time. You get the point.

...how much was the price of gas?
 
This is paradise. It is just what jazzfanz posters wanted, no boozer, no Okur, no AK, and no Sloan. We have King Deron and his Minyans. Milsap replacing Boozer, a better shot blocking center in Jefferson, full time CJ, and plenty of time to develop the young players, and no AK loafing around.

Isn't this what everybody has wanted for the last several years?

The beauty of the current situation is it now shows in living color how stupid 95% of the fans really are and how little they know about basketball.

Now we want to work some magical trades with total dog crap to offer other teams and long for the days of Wes Mathews.

Fools.

You miss the point. No one said they wanted those players to magically disappear. That is ridiculous in the extreme. We wanted them TRADED for DIFFERENT players. Therefore it would NOT be Deron and a rookie and an over-rated short PF and a gangling 7 footer and an over-rated wing that can't shoot to save his life. It would be a different team that we can never know how well they would be performing. But no one wanted this.

Moran.
 
The Pearl said:
This is paradise. It is just what jazzfanz posters wanted, no boozer, no Okur, no AK, and no Sloan. We have King Deron and his Minyans. Milsap replacing Boozer, a better shot blocking center in Jefferson, full time CJ, and plenty of time to develop the young players, and no AK loafing around.

Isn't this what everybody has wanted for the last several years?

The beauty of the current situation is it now shows in living color how stupid 95% of the fans really are and how little they know about basketball.

Now we want to work some magical trades with total dog crap to offer other teams and long for the days of Wes Mathews.

Fools.
You miss the point. No one said they wanted those players to magically disappear. That is ridiculous in the extreme. We wanted them TRADED for DIFFERENT players. Therefore it would NOT be Deron and a rookie and an over-rated short PF and a gangling 7 footer and an over-rated wing that can't shoot to save his life. It would be a different team that we can never know how well they would be performing. But no one wanted this.

Moran.

Ya MORAN! ... They didn't just want Sloan to disappear, they wanted the Jazz to trade him to TNT for Jeff Van Gundy. And they didn't want AK to get injured, they wanted to trade him for Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson. And they didn't want Boozer to gone for nothing...oh, wait, we got something on that one, nevermind. And they didn't want Okur to be injured, they wanted to trade him for David Lee and Monta Eliss. DUH!

Don't you see, those trades work on ESPN's site, so obviously that means every team would do them if KOC would just ask nicely!

Moran.
 
more timeline history from the DesNews

The last time the Jazz lost five consecutive home games Sony had just released its first CD player.

It was the year the Epcot Center opened and the Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated. ET was the biggest movie of the year and Thriller was the hottest song on the radio.
 
This is paradise. It is just what jazzfanz posters wanted, no boozer, no Okur, no AK, and no Sloan. We have King Deron and his Minyans. Milsap replacing Boozer, a better shot blocking center in Jefferson, full time CJ, and plenty of time to develop the young players, and no AK loafing around.

Isn't this what everybody has wanted for the last several years?

The beauty of the current situation is it now shows in living color how stupid 95% of the fans really are and how little they know about basketball.

Now we want to work some magical trades with total dog crap to offer other teams and long for the days of Wes Mathews.

Fools.


You miss the point. No one said they wanted those players to magically disappear. That is ridiculous in the extreme. We wanted them TRADED for DIFFERENT players. Therefore it would NOT be Deron and a rookie and an over-rated short PF and a gangling 7 footer and an over-rated wing that can't shoot to save his life. It would be a different team that we can never know how well they would be performing. But no one wanted this.

Moran.

Ya MORAN! ... They didn't just want Sloan to disappear, they wanted the Jazz to trade him to TNT for Jeff Van Gundy. And they didn't want AK to get injured, they wanted to trade him for Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson. And they didn't want Boozer to gone for nothing...oh, wait, we got something on that one, nevermind. And they didn't want Okur to be injured, they wanted to trade him for David Lee and Monta Eliss. DUH!

Don't you see, those trades work on ESPN's site, so obviously that means every team would do them if KOC would just ask nicely!

Moran.

Yeah, and we wanted a billionaire heir to buy the team and blow all his net worth gambling on a championship. And we wanted Monta Ellis, Steph Curry, Blake Griffin, and all our other new acquires to donate 90 % of their annual salary to purchase season tickets for poor children. We wanted to trade Hot Rod for Michael Buffer, fly Elvis out of Cuba to sing at every halftime show, and the Bear to give all our children Sunday afternoon rides on the Harley.

MORAN!
 
That was also the year they changed the spelling of moran to moron.
I'm glad we're getting back to our roots.
 
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