0-4 against bad teams sucks. It's awful. I hate it just as much as everyone else. That said, this is not a disaster yet.
A few facts:
Our record after 44 games last season was 26-18. Our record after 44 games this season is 27-17.
The Jazz had a pretty rough go of it in late December/Early January last season: Between December 18, 2009 and January 4, 2010 the Jazz went on a 3-6 stretch. The losses were BAD. We were blowing big leads, getting cranked in fourth quarters and the fan base was apocalyptic. It was bad enough that the team was losing but they'd also engaged, during this bad stretch, in the Eric Maynor giveaway. It looked enough like open revolt that Greg Miller took to his blog to defend the team against the angry fans. His blog entry talked down enough to the fans that the reaction on this board was generally towards "who does that ******* think he is?"
https://blogs.lhm.com/gmiller/2010/01/my-thoughts-on-the-utah-jazz/
What happened after that?
The team immediately whipped off a stretch where they won 16 of 18 and won 9 in a row. One of those early games was "the shot" by Sundiata Gaines. All it took to shake the team out of a severe funk was one big game.
For that reason I'm going into the Lakers and Spurs games with a bit of optimism. A win in one of these games and we could very well be looking at the kind of resurgence that makes everyone forget the bad stretch even happened.
And keep in mind, I'm usually the last person with any uptimism. I fully expect lots of people to tell me I'm an idiot here, but we saw this same thing play out last season.
Now if we lose both these games and then again to the Timberwolves ... then I will fully endorse the_pearl camping out in a bell tower next to the ESA.
A few facts:
Our record after 44 games last season was 26-18. Our record after 44 games this season is 27-17.
The Jazz had a pretty rough go of it in late December/Early January last season: Between December 18, 2009 and January 4, 2010 the Jazz went on a 3-6 stretch. The losses were BAD. We were blowing big leads, getting cranked in fourth quarters and the fan base was apocalyptic. It was bad enough that the team was losing but they'd also engaged, during this bad stretch, in the Eric Maynor giveaway. It looked enough like open revolt that Greg Miller took to his blog to defend the team against the angry fans. His blog entry talked down enough to the fans that the reaction on this board was generally towards "who does that ******* think he is?"
https://blogs.lhm.com/gmiller/2010/01/my-thoughts-on-the-utah-jazz/
What happened after that?
The team immediately whipped off a stretch where they won 16 of 18 and won 9 in a row. One of those early games was "the shot" by Sundiata Gaines. All it took to shake the team out of a severe funk was one big game.
For that reason I'm going into the Lakers and Spurs games with a bit of optimism. A win in one of these games and we could very well be looking at the kind of resurgence that makes everyone forget the bad stretch even happened.
And keep in mind, I'm usually the last person with any uptimism. I fully expect lots of people to tell me I'm an idiot here, but we saw this same thing play out last season.
Now if we lose both these games and then again to the Timberwolves ... then I will fully endorse the_pearl camping out in a bell tower next to the ESA.
If we could buy stock in team futures, today I'd buy Jazz.
