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Jazz @ Sixers, 1/22/11, 5:30 Utah time

Raja is becoming more and more of a disapointment. I don't see him doing hardly anything on the court. This has been going on all season. I have been patient because he didn't play last year, so I cut him some slack. But he is showing nothing out there.

We need something to jolt these guys back to playing hard.
 
craig2112 said:
I certainly don't like to see the Jazz go down like punks, but this is a slump and they do happen. Seems every year the jazz go through something like this.

And you know what? So does everyone else:

case in point.

Boston lost to Washington tonight
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Know what? No comparison.

Boston had won 5 straight, 9 of the past 11, before dropping that one to the Wiz by 2. The Jazz were mauled by the Cs and dropped 3 games to sub-.500 East teams. That's 4 in a row. And with the next 2 vs LA and SA, oh well.
 
jimmyjazz said:
Know what? No comparison.

Boston had won 5 straight, 9 of the past 11, before dropping that one to the Wiz by 2. The Jazz were mauled by the Cs and dropped 3 games to sub-.500 East teams. That's 4 in a row. And with the next 2 vs LA and SA, oh well.
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That.

I wouldn't call our current predicament a mere "slump." It's something much deeper than that. A slump doesn't involve getting man-handled in most first quarters we play, losses to cellar-dwellers by 10+, etc. Changes need to be made. This isn't something that's going to simply "work itself out" given some time.
 
Craig is right about the fact that we did go thru a similar patch last year at about this point in the season. Then Deron hurt his wrist again and couldn't play, and we took off after that. Only to crash again right before the playoffs. Just gotta see what happens from here on out. Like I've said before, my expectations have been significantly lowered for this season. I'm in the IF we make the playoffs camp. And even if we do, I don't expect much.
 
Obviously AK was the problem maybe Sloan can find away to play Bell more then 48min when he figures that out he knows the Jazz will win.
 
Also our players kept slipping in the second half. I've never seen players slip like that. I feel like lodging a complaint with the Wells Fargo Center. I'd be emarassed if I was in charge of that. The moppers HAVE to do a better job.

Biggest difference tonight was FT shooting. They shot 14 more than we did. We used to have a guy who got to the line a lot and drew fouls on the other team.
 
Boozer was an inside presence? Aside from the pick and roll, all he really does is shoot free throw line jumpers.
 
Sloanfeld said:
Biggest difference tonight was FT shooting. They shot 14 more than we did. We used to have a guy who got to the line a lot and drew fouls on the other team.
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Yeah, but he left 8 years ago to play with the Lakers and then retired.
 
craig2112 said:
I certainly don't like to see the Jazz go down like punks, but this is a slump and they do happen. Seems every year the jazz go through something like this.

And you know what? So does everyone else:

case in point.

Boston lost to Washington tonight
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Losing first quarters, shooting (and missing) a bunch of jumpers instead of getting to the FT line, and getting nothing out of our SG position aren't slumps, but critical weaknesses of this team. Opposing teams are now beginning to exploit the Jazz.

We're not in a slump. We're just playing like we have most of the year. It's just that other teams aren't choking in the 4th quarter like they used to. Other teams are now more familiar with their own players and have improved. Consequently they're more solid in the final quarters of games. Think Lebron and Dwade could choke another game away like they did against us early on? Doubt it.

Unfortunately, we're not improving. That's the scariest thing. If anything, we're regressing...

Is this team even going to make the playoffs?
 
Marty McFly said:
Boozer was an inside presence? Aside from the pick and roll, all he really does is shoot free throw line jumpers.
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Go watch the Boozer 09-10 mix from the thread I just bumped. Dude was on the team six years and people say this is all he does.

How did he get so many and ones by shooting jumpers????? And points in transition too? Do Jeffersap even know what points in transition are????
 
Inn Dawn said:
That.

I wouldn't call our current predicament a mere "slump." It's something much deeper than that. A slump doesn't involve getting man-handled in most first quarters we play, losses to cellar-dwellers by 10+, etc. Changes need to be made. This isn't something that's going to simply "work itself out" given some time.
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The Thriller said:
Losing first quarters, shooting (and missing) a bunch of jumpers instead of getting to the FT line, and getting nothing out of our SG position aren't slumps, but critical weaknesses of this team. Opposing teams are now beginning to exploit the Jazz.

We're not in a slump. We're just playing like we have most of the year. It's just that other teams aren't choking in the 4th quarter like they used to. Other teams are now more familiar with their own players and have improved. Consequently they're more solid in the final quarters of games. Think Lebron and Dwade could choke another game away like they did against us early on? Doubt it.

Unfortunately, we're not improving. That's the scariest thing. If anything, we're regressing...

Is this team even going to make the playoffs?
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Exactly what they both said. I was arguing the same thing with a friend of mine during the game. He was trying to sell me on this bogus slump garbage. I'm not buying it. The Jazz have been playing from behind the entire season.
 
These last 4 games have been pure misery and I wondered tonight if I would ever see the Jazz play good again. But I believe it's going to gel. There's too much talent to be playing this bad.
 
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