We Are Horrible

[Jazz Spazz]

There's only 2 preseason games. Every minute is valuable time for players going to make the team in preparing for the season.

Not saying the Jazz are going to be good, but it's one preseason game. One preseason game.

I'm with Archie on both points. Because there are only 2 preseason games they can't play everyone. In the past they played guys they knew would not make the team to help them out, they don't have that luxury this year. Corbin was more trying to see what guys can do on the floor, more than trying to win a preseason game. I really hope he takes what he learned and goes with it. He also has to take much of it with a grain of salt as it is one game and doesn't tell us as much as many of the posters here seem to think it tells.

I do want Favors and Hayward to start, and I want to see good minutes from Burks, Kanter, and Evans.
I want less minutes for Jefferson, few minutes for Okur until he can show he can rotate on defense and hit shots, few minutes for Howard until he can hit shots in the flow, and few minutes for CJ and Bell just on the history of last year(I don't care if they seem better right now).
The point should be 65% Harris, 30% Watson, 5% Burks.

Oh, one more thing, Hayward needs to stop driving baseline when doubled, then jumping and hoping he can get a pass to some player. I see that in church ball and should never see that in the NBA. At least do the Nash and keep the dribble alive and come back out the other side, if you don't see an open teammate.

 

[MoTappin]

It's just one game. The FIRST game, and it doesn't even count. These young guys are going to be very, very good together I think. It takes time, but it will be fun to watch it unfold.

 

[SojoDave]

My biggest concern watching the game last night was Devin Harris. If he can't penetrate, keep turn overs to a minimum, we are gong to be horrendous. I was hoping he would be a steadying influence on the younger players, instead he looked like he couldn't get into the key, and was a turn over machine.

 

[BluesRocker]

Lottery here we come. Hopefully we can trade Jefferson for some picks before the rest of the world realizes that he sucks.

 

[YB85]

You know what would have made this team even better? Having a bunch of D-League rejects out there. Those guys would have really helped the Jazz and I look forward to the numerous homey posts saying the Jazz should sign them.

 

[Beantown]

Lottery here we come. Hopefully we can trade Jefferson for some picks before the rest of the world realizes that he sucks.

Good thing you didn't overreact.

 

[homeytennis]

Right now the quality of the DLeague is worse than it was last year. A lot of players that would normally be there are either overseas or are in NBA camps waiting to be cut. Soooo that quality is way down. When the NBA teams make their cuts I will be putting homey garbage on the board once again.

 

[mellow]

What they are saying about Jazz.

They had a rotten time on the visit. They were whipped, tossed around, and finished off. Probably explains why the Utah Jazz slogged off the Rose Garden Arena court and headed through the tunnel toward the bus home with hardly a word.

Oh, Derrick Favors didn't look all that sad. He had 25 points and 12 rebounds. He smiled, a little. But his teammates looked like a line of souls who had just been sent home after an evening shoveling burning coal in an uncomfortably warm corner of basketball hell.

Portland clubbed Utah 110-90. But that look in the eyes of the Jazz players was all anyone needed to see.

And never mind that the Jazz are in shambles. The Blazers did exactly what you'd expect a good team to do to a lousy team.

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...f/2011/12/canzano_utah_jazz_come_to_port.html

 

[zman1527]

Our offense will be fine once we work out the kinks but I'm not so sure about defense. We just don't have good defensive players... Teams like the Thunder are going to go off against us.

Where is Fess?

 

[jrclone]

I think the most glaring problem for the team is the lack of any kind of cohesiveness. It just looks like a cobbled together mess; they don't seem to be communicating, there is no leadership, and many of the parts seem to be forced into a role that doesn't suit them. If KOC and Corbin don't just say let's scrap the season, use the time to get our young players some chemistry together, and hope for a decent pick in the lottery next year, we could be looking at a very long rebuilding process. Jefferson, Harris, Bell, CJ, Memo, and Howard should not be in our long term plans, and should be traded or see decreased minutes, with the exception of Harris, because we have no other real option.

 

[Thee Idiotic Minivan K]

Yes we are horrible but give credit to the Blazers. They looked good.

Blazers were making everything, open shots, contested shots, and all the circus shots. They ran their offense better, were more aggressive on defense. The Blazers treated this game like a real game we didn't.