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The Thriller said:
This team looks like they have given up on the season. They haven't been the same since that 4 OT loss to Atlanta.
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Haven't been the same as what? Sure, they went on a nice little win streak with a couple big wins against LA and OKC, but they look like exactly the same team that has the 4th worst road record in the west. I think it's natural for fans to hope that the team has somehow turned a corner whenever they go through a good stretch, but teams with really bad road records just don't turn into a good teams overnight.

Looks like the same team to me. Middle of the road, borderline playoff team, who will be nothing more than a road apple if they somehow do sneak into the playoffs.
 
Weezur said:
I can give you lists and lists with plays upon plays where Milsap excels, but I'll be quick.

Did you really not see Al being outboxed out by Tim Duncan like 5 times in the 4th quarter when the Jazz had a chance?

It's the little things dude. That's how the Spurs win, that's how Chicago wins. Yeah, both teams have 2 great PG's....but everybody on these two teams rotate, grab bounds, and do what they're supposed to. You can't win many games without the little things.
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Millsap's probably not going to box-out Tim Duncan either, though not due to a lack of trying.
 
The Thriller said:
Multiple lotto picks or 4 more games like the one we had today?

And how exactly are these blowouts benefiting anyone? Especially the "young" players?

It's funny to see the pro-playoff minority talk about how the beneficial the playoffs would be when we barely beat teams like Golden St. Then they are no where to be found when we're blown out by playoff teams... Teams who we will face in the 1st round...

Give me the lotto please. Screw the playoffs. This team can't be competitive in the playoffs. Plain and simple.
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Agree. I don't blame fans for wanting their team in the playoffs, but the arguments being made that getting swept would have more value than adding another asset are a bit of a stretch, and that's putting it politely.
 
Favors seemed to do well in the 4th quarter, making a difference on both ends. However, the Jazz don't have a take-the-game-over kind of player right now. This is where having a more solid PG and a fearless shooter would be helpful.
 
Weron Dilliams said:
Hey, missed the game. Someone give me a quarter by quarter summary.
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Typical of what we've seen the past ohhh 7-10 games, Jazz don't show up in the first half... Sorta show up in the 2nd... But it's much too little too late. Jefferson failed to box out. Millsap looked gassed. Young guys played hard and looked good. And we left 3 point shooters wide open...

Anything more?
 
Yeah, DeMarre Carroll looks like our best outside shooter at the moment. He was 3/4 from deep. He could turn out to be the new Wes Matthews.
 
freakazoid said:
Haven't been the same as what? Sure, they went on a nice little win streak with a couple big wins against LA and OKC, but they look like exactly the same team that has the 4th worst road record in the west. I think it's natural for fans to hope that the team has somehow turned a corner whenever they go through a good stretch, but teams with really bad road records just don't turn into a good teams overnight.

Looks like the same team to me. Middle of the road, borderline playoff team, who will be nothing more than a road apple if they somehow do sneak into the playoffs.
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You're probably right. However, I just seem to remember a team about a month ago that actually showed like they cared most of the time. They were inept and couldn't shoot from the outside. But at least they cared. The past few weeks I've seen, the Jazz have looked like they didn't give a crap. For most of today's game, I didn't just see a team that was being destroyed by the Spurs, I saw a team that was scared and just waiting to be blown out. When the Jazz made "comebacks" optimistic homers will say that it was "the Jazz fighting back." I would say it was merely the Spurs letting the foot off the gas.

Even they were getting bored.
 
The playoffs are a joke at this point. The Jazz have shown flashes of a team that can compete. Most of the time they are a team that cannot close game or cannot get going in the first quarter and play form behind for about 40 minutes or so.

Someone mentioned that the Jazz don't have a player that will take over a game. This might be very unpopular but I see Austin Rivers as that player. He is not an ideal PG but neither is Parker, Westbrook, Rose or Lawson. All of those players have the ability to take over a game for a stretch when their teams need it. I am hopeful that Burks can be a player like that or even if Hayward played more aggressive he could be a force but he doesn't seem to have the right mindset. Rivers has that mindset.
 
The Thriller said:
You're probably right. However, I just seem to remember a team about a month ago that actually showed like they cared most of the time. They were inept and couldn't shoot from the outside. But at least they cared. The past few weeks I've seen, the Jazz have looked like they didn't give a crap. For most of today's game, I didn't just see a team that was being destroyed by the Spurs, I saw a team that was scared and just waiting to be blown out. When the Jazz made "comebacks" optimistic homers will say that it was "the Jazz fighting back." I would say it was merely the Spurs letting the foot off the gas.

Even they were getting bored.
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The Jazz had some fire when Earl Watson was playing pretty well and Josh Howard was scoring the ball well. At this point, both those factors seem to have petered out. Now people are realizing that the team is incomplete and most the vets aren't going to be here for the long term.
 
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