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Utah @ memphis 3/21 (6:00 pm mt)

Worst loss of the season. Lots of blame to go around, but the return of discombobulated D is what did us in. It's too easy to beat us on D. Every team should have the same scouting report: No early shots, pass the ball around, and eventually the Jazz D will break down for an easy bucket. Part B of this is the team has no reset button. Blown D happens to the best teams. But the best teams just forget the last possession and buckle down. We cave.
 
I don't think the guys have given up as much as I think they have given in. This team tried to outrun its problems in the first half of the season - all those miraculous double-digit deficit comebacks. But everyone kept saying "hey, you know we really cant keep this pace up, right?" and they were right. This team burned out waiting for Jefferson to figure out the offense, but by the time he did it was too late. The others covered for it as well and as admirabley as they could, methinks. I just think they wore out in the process. And then the whole thing with Sloan and the DWill trade just blew it all to **** in the end. This is a lost season, which is a shame. We don't have many of these, lets hope it stays that way. Hopefully the draft picks parlay into something of value.
 
The O was pretty terrible, too. We're just so bad when the shot clock gets down to 12 seconds. The crazy thing is that's still half the shot clock. But you can see Jazz players getting panicked at the 12 second mark instead of realizing the 'first half' of the clock is gone, and the 'second half' is still plenty of time to break down a D.
 
sad...

maybe the real reason Sloan resigned when he did is that he suspected there was a good chance this team was going to end with a losing record, and he wanted to go out while they still had more wins than losses...

I'm half joking.
 
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