Believe he does lead the jazz in dunks this year, but yeah the numbers he put a few years ago seem to be a thing of the past. A lot of that of course has to do with the fact that we now have guys who can score at the 4 and 5.
12/10: Jazz vs. Magic, 7pm MST, FSN
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Believe he does lead the jazz in dunks this year, but yeah the numbers he put a few years ago seem to be a thing of the past. A lot of that of course has to do with the fact that we now have guys who can score at the 4 and 5.
The Thriller
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Even with the Magic on the back end of a B2B?
memo is money
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The Jazz have no choice, excuses for tonights game. Orlando is on a back-to-back. Nelson and Lewis still showed the impacts of stomach virusses caught them nearly a week ago during the Blazers game. They were out of gas and energy in 2nd half against young and running(this is rare) Blazers backourt.
-The Jazz have lost 4 statement games at home, and this game is not even one of those type of games, it's a must win game.
-Portland showed how to make Magic a less efficient, make their three point threat less problematic for opponent defenses. You defend Howard 1-on-1 and let him have a 30-10 performance.
- Howard rarely passes out in the post area when he gets the ball. He might be thinking that since his teammates fall in love with 3s as the game develops, they tend to forget giving the ball to him at the low block.
- Perimeter players of Magic seem to have no idea how to move off the ball, how to contribute to offense, become effective and hold themselves accountable on offense without the ball, or shooting it. None of its players except Howard can blow by their opponent off the dribble or can create his own shot. That's why their offense has struggled. VC was brought to compensate for the lack of ball-handling and lack of creators off the dribble which arrived when Turkoglu left. That has not worked. The Magic offense become stagnant because of it. Lewis takes too many casual threes instead of assisted ones or the ones that are within the system.
- I hope coach Sloan will not make defending the painted area the primary concern, focus of defense. The Jazz bring too much help inside. Honestly, I see exactly NO difference between the way we used to defend the painted area when Boozer/Okur was the duo upfornt and when we have Paul and AJ inside. We do not have to hear Carlos yelling "help Memo, help Paul, let me save my energy to offense so that I can take care of my stats". I do not remember how the Jazz defended Howard in the other game between these teams. I would prefer defending him with one player.
-The Jazz have lost 4 statement games at home, and this game is not even one of those type of games, it's a must win game.
-Portland showed how to make Magic a less efficient, make their three point threat less problematic for opponent defenses. You defend Howard 1-on-1 and let him have a 30-10 performance.
- Howard rarely passes out in the post area when he gets the ball. He might be thinking that since his teammates fall in love with 3s as the game develops, they tend to forget giving the ball to him at the low block.
- Perimeter players of Magic seem to have no idea how to move off the ball, how to contribute to offense, become effective and hold themselves accountable on offense without the ball, or shooting it. None of its players except Howard can blow by their opponent off the dribble or can create his own shot. That's why their offense has struggled. VC was brought to compensate for the lack of ball-handling and lack of creators off the dribble which arrived when Turkoglu left. That has not worked. The Magic offense become stagnant because of it. Lewis takes too many casual threes instead of assisted ones or the ones that are within the system.
- I hope coach Sloan will not make defending the painted area the primary concern, focus of defense. The Jazz bring too much help inside. Honestly, I see exactly NO difference between the way we used to defend the painted area when Boozer/Okur was the duo upfornt and when we have Paul and AJ inside. We do not have to hear Carlos yelling "help Memo, help Paul, let me save my energy to offense so that I can take care of my stats". I do not remember how the Jazz defended Howard in the other game between these teams. I would prefer defending him with one player.
The Thriller
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I think the Jazz will win this one by 8.
If they lose, we should hit the panic button. We've looked like crap for a while. But the Magic should be tired after playing up in Portland last night.
If they lose, we should hit the panic button. We've looked like crap for a while. But the Magic should be tired after playing up in Portland last night.
Gyp Rosetti
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Okay, I thought we were going to lose by about 13 tonight but now that Hayward's starting, I'm feeling a win by about 13. The scary thing is, I'm not even kidding.
LifeOnaPlate
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He's much better sneaking off the ball and receiving a pass for an easy dunk. Getting there himself is not working for him now.
Duck Rodgers
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Dwight looked awesome in the first half against Portland. Anybody watch the rest of that one? What did Portland switch in the second half?
memo is money
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They let Dwight have a super dominant game and locked the others down. Magic do not move the ball well and their off-ball movement is really ineffective. Dwight showed why he is not as good as Gasol, his passing and Bball IQ. The Jazz better opt to go with man-to-man and rarely apply zone.
Well, Orlando is a really tough place to play, and it's quite a distance from home.
I think that will lead to a Jazz loss by 10.
That's for you Dawny.
I think that will lead to a Jazz loss by 10.
That's for you Dawny.
Excited to see Hayward play. Althoug he probably isn't ready to contribute every night he could have a good game here and there.
I hope tonight he has one of those. Bell really isn't that good of a starter anyways.
I hope tonight he has one of those. Bell really isn't that good of a starter anyways.
Inn Dawn
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Haha.
Darn it, go easy on the awesome posts man, as the rep limit is precluding me from repping you.
Lost_Jazz_Fan
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I can get on this train with you. Jazz by 13 and life is restored on jazzfanz.com once again!
If you're gonna fail, fail HARD.
Hanginthere
Member
Well... We're up 58-57 at halftime and I'm still not feeling good about it...
Bottom line... Defense wins championships... The Bulls, the Rockets, The Lakers, the Spurs... All had 1 thing in common... Suffocating defense...
At the beginning of the season, I saw it... I haven't seen it since before the Mavs game... Those teams I mentioned above shut down the good offensive teams too...
If we continue to play defense like this... We will be nothing better than a 3-4 seed and getting to the 2nd round, or with a little seeding luck, maybe the WCF... But that's as far as we go...
Bottom line... Defense wins championships... The Bulls, the Rockets, The Lakers, the Spurs... All had 1 thing in common... Suffocating defense...
At the beginning of the season, I saw it... I haven't seen it since before the Mavs game... Those teams I mentioned above shut down the good offensive teams too...
If we continue to play defense like this... We will be nothing better than a 3-4 seed and getting to the 2nd round, or with a little seeding luck, maybe the WCF... But that's as far as we go...
