jazzrule
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I smell a rat. Why would any Jazz fan use Michael Jordan for his board name? Sloanfeld did you get so desperate that you opened another account, so you could have someone to agree with you? lol
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I smell a rat. Why would any Jazz fan use Michael Jordan for his board name? Sloanfeld did you get so desperate that you opened another account, so you could have someone to agree with you? lol
MichaelJordan23
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Check the IP, I'm just a new troll. I was referred here by my depressed friend who's a Jazz fan. I just like to state reality. Gordon Hayward is going to make the Jazz forget about Carlos Boozer and lead the Jazz in a couple of years to a 2nd round series!
Sloanfeld
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There's only Jazz fans on this board???????
memo is money
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The Jazz, when fully healthy, are already a better team than Bulls. Got it?
DRIVEWAYBALL
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Better than Sloanfield ... here's drivewayball back ...
Boozer responded to the "benching" with 31 points on 14-19 shooting and 13 boards. Carlos is currently second in the nba in efficiency per 48, trailing only Kevin Love's amazing start to the season.
Sloanfield will be able to remind you of a similar situation a few years ago in Utah, when Coach Sloan did exactly the same thing as the Chicago coach. He decided to let a healthy Boozer ride the pine in a fourth quarter and it caused the same kind of stir. Difference was that Sloan later said he had made a mistake and regretted his decision.
Boozer responded to the "benching" with 31 points on 14-19 shooting and 13 boards. Carlos is currently second in the nba in efficiency per 48, trailing only Kevin Love's amazing start to the season.
Sloanfield will be able to remind you of a similar situation a few years ago in Utah, when Coach Sloan did exactly the same thing as the Chicago coach. He decided to let a healthy Boozer ride the pine in a fourth quarter and it caused the same kind of stir. Difference was that Sloan later said he had made a mistake and regretted his decision.
What's the point in this thread. Everyone knows Boozer sucks on defense. Even he knows it. The guy just has poor lateral movement; his feet are like bricks moving side to side or back pedaling. One thing I always wondered though about him was if it is in part mental because he has such good footwork on his offensive moves ???
Sloanfeld
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- After spending the end of the third quarter in the locker room showing doctors what he could do with a strained right quad, Vince Carter spent the fourth quarter giving the Utah Jazz a look.
Carter scored 13 of his 30 points down the stretch when he almost single-handedly held off Utah, leading the New Jersey Nets to a 96-89 victory on Wednesday night that knocked the Jazz from the unbeaten ranks.
"To see him come back and take over the game, that's just Vince," Jason Kidd said after sending Utah to its first loss in five games and leaving the New Orleans Hornets (4-0) as the NBA's only remaining undefeated team a little more than a week into the season.
Carter was hurt with 5:01 left in the third quarter when Gordan Giricek grabbed his shoulder on a layup that turned into a three-point play. Carter immediately started hobbling after landing. He was eventually taken to the locker room before the quarter ended.
A Nets spokesman told reporters that Carter was questionable to play in the fourth quarter.
However, once the teams left the bench, Carter was on the floor.
After taking a couple of tentative shots, Carter ignored some sharp pains and got going. He was 3-of-5 from the floor, 7-of-9 from the free throw line and added an assist and a rebound.
"I felt if I was going to be on the floor, I have just got to go and play," Carter said.
Richard Jefferson added 23 points, Kidd had 15 and Antoine Wright scored a career-high 15, including a clutch 3-pointer with 3:41 left in the final quarter after Utah had drawn within 85-84.
Carlos Boozer, the Western Conference player of the week, had 15 points for the Jazz, but he spent the fourth quarter on the bench as Jazz coach Jerry Sloan used Matt Harpring and Paul Millsap up front along with Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmet Okur.
"They had a small lineup out there," Sloan said of benching Boozer. "It would have very difficult for me to play him out there. They had four guys who could put the ball on the floor."
Derek Fisher also scored 15 and Williams had 10 of his 14 points in the final quarter to help the Jazz nearly fight back from a 10-point deficit.
"We got off to a bad start and you can't to that against a good team," Williams said.
However, they never got closer than a point as Carter scored 13 of the Nets' final 20 points to prevent the Jazz from the third 5-0 start in their 32-year history.
Okur had nine of his 13 points in the final quarter. Kirilenko finished with six points on 2-of-10 shooting.
New Jersey, which led by as many as 14 points in the second half, had a 76-66 lead after Jefferson slammed home a dunk early in the fourth quarter.
Okur got the Jazz back in the game with five straight points and Utah kept inching closer the rest of the way.
After Wright's 3-point gave New Jersey an 88-84 lead, Okur hit a free throw and Fisher added two more to cut the lead to 88-87. Carter then drove the lane for a basket with 2:14 to go before a layup by Harpring with 1:46 left got the Jazz within 90-89.
Carter hit two free throws to push the lead to 92-89 with 1:32 to play. Okur missed the next two shots, including a game-tying 3-point attempt with 35 seconds left, and the Nets were not threatened again.
Utah scored a season-low 41 points in the first half.
https://espn.go.com/nba/recap/_/id/261108017/utah-jazz-vs-new-jersey-nets
Same thinng that Thibs said.
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So, not only can't you read my username, but also the big signature at the bottom of all my posts.
Does THIS mean anything to you?
Why the **** would I be Sloanfield? That doesn't even mean anything.
Dude seriously calm down. I figured with the extra "waits" in there it was pretty obviously a joke. Sorry your limited sense of humor missed that. No one is trying to "dis" you.
memo is money
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You're a dumb if you really think Thibbs' benching his a** had everything to do with lineups. Bruce Bowen agrees with the thinking of the majority of fans here who had to deal with Boozer's matador defense, which is REALITY. You can ignore it, but after West, now the East will know the reality. BTW, there are also some Bulls forums in net, maybe you can make them believe in you. OK?
https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5994954
Sloanfeld
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All I said was it was the same thing their coach said. I'm fully aware that Boozer sucks on defense. I'm also fully aware that he is is a way better player than Jeffersuck or Millsap.
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And I, for one, am not buying that. A player with no desire to play defense and without the ability to contribute to the wins with effort and defensive performance even ifif the offense is not clicking in any given night cannot be considered a star player in my opinion. If you cannot play either side of the floor at a respected level, then you do not deserve to be called the leader of the team or whatsoever. And, this is a "Jazz" fans forum and Boozer is gone. Good luck to Carlos and his "guys" in Chicago, we are done with him, I'm tired of reading and commenting in threads about debacles about Boozer. I think, Jazzfanz needs to get over this "who's better, what if" debates and theories, obsessions. You will not become the new president if you convince all of the posters here that Carlos is a great person, great athlete and professional.
Back to the main argument; Thibbs, as a rookie coach, made a rookie mistake by trying to make fabricated explanations. He did not have to defend or justify his decision to reporters. Sloan is an outspoken person and he can admit his mistakes, and he probably did wrong that time. I do not remember that game vividly. I'm not sold on the explanation of Thibbs. I, actually, cannot criticise coach because he and Sloan are in different classes for now and there's a big difference between Sloan expicitly offering his critics about a player than Thibbs' doing so. He needs Carlos to succeed and his any aggressive or strong comment, action will certainly not help him get enough support from staff or management. But, I watched that game (my man Omer is playing for Bulls), saw what I needed to. Bruce Bowen saw it, too. So, you can continue to believe that coach Tom was sincere in his comment, explanation and you can relate it to coach Sloan's comments but it is not true. You can find hundreds of "it was about matchups, we had to go small to match their quickness" blah blah...
