Darkwing Duck
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Yes, but Sloan is always about getting layups. Catching a defender off guard who is expecting a specific play is perfectly fine.
Back when AK-47 was playing with Stockton and Malone...
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Yes, but Sloan is always about getting layups. Catching a defender off guard who is expecting a specific play is perfectly fine.
vslice02
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I was at the (then-called) MCI Center for this game. Bryon Russell got hurt in the first-half so Quincy played big minutes and actually ended up with a career-high like 18-20 points. Still, Jordan went for 40+ on Quincy and whoever was guarding him.
Also regarding AK, in his first 4 years I've never seen anyone block more jumpshots than him. It's one thing to just block shots at the rim, but the way he would roam all over the court and block your jumper from behind was unbelieavable.
carolinajazz
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...Klinko had free reign to crash boards and just in general, wreck havoc on the opposition....because they had to concentrate so much on Stockton and Malone! Take your eye off either one of them or just let up a bit and it was two points...generally a lay up! So Klinko just free lanced and did just fine! NOW, we don't have a Stockton/Malone combination anymore....and Klinko has to do more "thinking" out there....not his real strong suit!
If you start thinking too much, CJ, especially in the NBA, you're going to be a step behind. You need to react. In fact, I remember Stockton saying that in one of his interviews. What you do has to become automatic and intuitive. Maybe that's why guys have trouble with Jerry's system, but why John and Karl were able to do it so well, because it became second nature to them.
vslice02
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I disagree, obvi not Stockton&Malone, but Deron&Boozer running screen-roll (w/Memo spotting up outside) more than occupied the defense. Taking nothing away from Brewer, but he basically scored 8 pts per game just by cutting to the basket when his defender lost focus on him. I just think in 03-04, AK got so used to handling the ball that he couldn't/didn't want to go back to being a role-player offensively, while the injuries took away some of the athleticism that made him such a great defensive player.
Jazz4ever
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And you have been a jazz fan how long? Malone was nothing but a 45% ineffecient jump shooter his last two years here - layups came few and far between for him. They were not fun years, we knew a 1st round exit was more assured back then than now.
unluckyseventeen
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It's a shame he's not a world-class defender anymore. I remember back in the day he used to post 4 or 5 blocks in a game without any trouble. I've also never seen anybody go from being so good, like top 5 in the league at his position, to barely getting 6th man production without any sort of significant injury.
carolinajazz
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...I was a Jazz fan when you head was the size of a grape! Malone was making layups in large quantities when Klinko was a rookie on the team! ALL Stockton/Malone years were fun years...regardless of the first round exits....because they played a "watchable" game and always gave 100%....unlike today's NBA clowns who are readily admitting almost every day now, that they dog it on many occasions!
David Stern
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Every Jazz fan needs to pray for AK's revival every night, Or else you might as well go become a laker fan.
JAZZFAN_2814
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Yes, Kirilenko's closer to a martyr, or at least fan favorite, on this board rather than an object of scorn. Boozer took far more crap. Hell, so has Karl Malone, even in this very thread. The attachment to this sack of **** borders on the worshipful, standardized by the very selfsame lack of standards underlying his conduct.
Nothing is ever his fault, all out of his hands. It's Sloan's fault that Kirilenko has never had fundamental offensive skills that a high-level offensive system can be built around or run through; just as it was the fault of Williams and Boozer that they squeezed Kirilenko out by having these abilities.
Isn't it telling that Kirilenko's best work is being reminisced about, and it came about with him as a role player under two 40 year old superstars? When was it ever better? Oh, right, when Kirilenko was leading the Jazz...to the lottery.
All that, matched with a max deal. The gift that keeps on giving. Few players have ever done as little, relative to expectation. None have been so teflon as to be seen as the hapless victim of their own lack; none except this idiot.
Kirilenko is the perfect Russian, in a communistic sense. In a capitalistic standardization, he's an example of what a disaster free trade can be.
