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Good call.

I get it now: the prototypical Jazz leader is Greg Ostertag.

I don't remember any NBA team basing their rotation on two very young rookie PGs. So, I understand both the Jazz and Neto.

Actually, Biedrins: he was so atrocious last season that it is quite possible that his scoring output would increase several times. We are talking about the guy averaging 0.5 ppg... and he was a double-double machine just three seasons before. Even if he moves from the legendary bad to the...

Hey, maybe it is a different Biedrins? The one on our team played 53 games last season and averaged 0.5 points and 2.9 rebounds.

Well, I don't know where did you put Biedrins, but that guy has at least one pretty good skill - rebounding. Last season he was a better per 36 rebounder than Favors and Kanter. And he is also mobile and plays some decent defense. There is some non-negligible chance that the change of the...

For some reason most of the posters assume that our bench this season going to be so bad that it will lose a lot ofgames of us and bring us a top pick. I just don't see it. It will probably consist of Lucas - Rush (or Burks for scoring) -Williams - Evans - Biedrins/Gobert. This group has...

I do not think anybody mentioned the unavoidable injuries. Every team goes through them and we are paper-thin at many positions. Just think how atrocious our wings will be if Hayward is out for a while. The same goes for Burke, Favors and Kanter. We can easily end up being a team sporting for...

So, Millsap and Al had much higher win share per 48 minutes than any of our young players (except for Evans), and Burks had much lower WS/48 than Marvin and Foye? How could it be? Is the dominant perception of the relative value for the Jazz players completely wrong or is the win share a...

You cannot simply compare the individual players: it is a team that wins or loses, and every team is something different from a sum of its parts. More specifically: 1. Scoring in the crunch time at the end of the games: whatever we think about Al and Millsap (when on fire) they could score...

I looked at the highlights: he is really big, fast and athletic. On top of that he has a reputation of being a hard worker, no expensive long-term contract in Europe and no history of injuries. In the last ten years bigs with lesser physical gifts have been routinely selected in the top 10, but...

Some people on this board are really excited about this upcoming draft, other think it is on of the weakest drafts in history. We simply do not know. However, if we look back, at the players that the Jazz drafted in the 14-21 range the most likely result is clear. The Jazz recently drafted...

Well, the same old Hayward: 9 points, 50% shooting, earned just 1 FT and promptly missed it, the same amount of turnovers as assists (2). In short, he chose to fade in the background and let other guys (Al, Mo, Foye, Favors) to force something. One season he will pull himself together and...

i think in the last two games, after the loss to OKC, there was a much higher sense of urgency to win: the Jazz could not afford to lose any of them if they wanted to keep their playoff hopes alive. The pressure on the players was comparable to the playoff games. And palyers respond differently...

Lately, when the Jazz had a big must-win game Hayward was nowhere to be seen on offense. 2011/12 playoffs I game - 33% FG, 17 points II game - 30%, 8 points III game - 10%, 4 points IV game - 0%, 0 points 2012/13 season 4/12 vs. MIN - 20%, 5 points 4/15 @ MIN - 40%, 8 points...

Oh, yes, and, as usual, he had a negative plus/minus.

let me ask you and other guys of the similar conviction... Do you perceive yourself a failure because you did not get into Harvard? Because you do not make more money than any guy that graduated with you from school? In short, do you apply to your life the same standard: first or failure?

But that is not true. According to 82games.com in the games up to 3/21 the Jazz were -2.2 when he played and +0.3 when Favors was sitting on the bench - almost the same numbers as what much maligned here Marvin Williams has (-2.4, +0.6). And I distinctly remember how plus/minus was hailed as...

Wrong. When one of Millsap/Jefferson was out Corbin simply played Favors and Kanter extended minutes. In the only game when both of them were out and the Jazz truly had no bench they blew the opponent out of the building. Wrong. Four of those 7 games were at home. That well may be, but...

I think I somehow got misunderstood in this thread. I do not imply that the Jazz are better with Kanter playing as little as possible. It just that in the Corbin's system playing Kanter extra minutes does not benefit the team. And Kanter is not so good so that he would significantly improve the...