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retroevo

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Wow. A year ago, the Jazz were undersized and their interior defense was decimated night in and night out. Tonight, 13 blocks (5 by Big Al) and 56 rebounds.

56 REBOUNDS. If they start playing defense like this the rest of the year, it's going to be special!

Derrick Favors is my new favorite Jazz player now!!
 
PrinceJL said:
yeah but our perimeter shooting is as horrible as ever!
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When the front line was Al, AK, and Favors that's as formidable of a Jazz frontcourt that I've seen in quite some time. Not bad considering one of the guys is a 19 year old kid who was playing his first game for a team that he joined 24 hours earlier.

We'll see how it plays out over the rest of the season, but AK especially seemed to thrive playing alongside the other 2. If this continues, I wouldn't mind putting AK on the spot and asking him to resign with Utah for less money.
 
I feel that this deficiency will be fixed through the draft. The Jazz's only real position of need now is at shooting guard. With the Nets' pick (likely top 5 or so) and next year's lottery pick, we are likely to acquire said high-scoring wing through the draft. We are set. GO JAZZ!!!
 
You can add a player either through draft, FA, or through a trade to help this. If Hayward develops as we hope over the next couple of years, we could be a legitimate team. Plus, you have to remember with AK coming off the books after this year and Memo off after next year, we will hopefully be able to avoid the curse of horrible contracts this time around.
 
Total rebounds are more of an indicator of pace and field goal percentage than rebounding ability. You can have 35 rebounds and dominate the boards. Rebounding percentage is a much better indicator of how you play on the boards. Jazz didn't defensive rebound all that well. Getting 39 and giving up 20 offensive rebounds. That's a 66.1% rebound rate, which is horrible. Jazz were great on the offensive end, getting 19 opposed to Indiana's 26 defensive boards. That's a percentage of 42.2% rate which is beyond good. Jefferson is, unfortunately, a big cause of this and Millsap isn't a good enough rebounder to compensate for it.

While I sound negative, the rotation of Favors, Millsap, and Jefferson does look promising.
 
Add anything from Okur and we have a very deep frontcourt. Love the Big Al, Millsap and Favors rotation.

Going forward next year, I think Elson and Fes will be gone and Tomic may make his way over and any contribution from him would be a plus
 
Get Okur playing some and give Hayward more PT and it will help the perimeter shooting issues.
 
Clicked on this thread thinking it may have been my new girlfriend who started it:-)
Sorry for the mistake, retroevo.
 
I dont see any sure fire SGs in the draft at the position we might likely pick. Next year's draft class is weak and I am not sure if there are enough reasons to be so excited about having 2 lottery picks in this draft. If it were last year's draft at least I can see why the excitement.

I dont think the Jazz can afford to have a bunch of 20-yr old kids at every position. They should try to trade for a young SG rather than draft one. They already have Hayward and Favors and Fesenko to develop.
 
vj_74 said:
I dont see any sure fire SGs in the draft at the position we might likely pick. Next year's draft class is weak and I am not sure if there are enough reasons to be so excited about having 2 lottery picks in this draft. If it were last year's draft at least I can see why the excitement.

I dont think the Jazz can afford to have a bunch of 20-yr old kids at every position. They should try to trade for a young SG rather than draft one. They already have Hayward and Favors and Fesenko to develop.
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dont forget evans.
 
vj_74 said:
I dont see any sure fire SGs in the draft at the position we might likely pick. Next year's draft class is weak and I am not sure if there are enough reasons to be so excited about having 2 lottery picks in this draft. If it were last year's draft at least I can see why the excitement.

I dont think the Jazz can afford to have a bunch of 20-yr old kids at every position. They should try to trade for a young SG rather than draft one. They already have Hayward and Favors and Fesenko to develop.
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I agree. If the NJ pick comes in around 7-8, I think a decent SF will be available, but I think either the later lottery pick or the GS pick is traded for a SG. I don't see anyone of note in the draft at SG. In fact, this draft may be like last season, where you have a top-3 (last year was 5) and then not much after that. Might be impossible to even trade the #6 and #14 to move into the top-3.
 
Midway thru the 4th quarter, the jazz ran out this line-up: Harris, Miles, AK, Favors, and Big Al. On paper, I'd have never thought I'd say this - but that line-up looked strong! They put the clamps on defensively! Went on something like a 14-4 run leading to a Pacers timeout!

Add to that a re-energized Millsap. I love the potential of this new Jazz team!
 
jope said:
shooting guard. not bricking guard.
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exactly. miles has the tools to be a good player, but he doesn't have the brains or heart. if he would slash more he'd take a huge step up just from that. he'll just continue to settle for quick jumpers, and some nights hit them other nights he'll be a joke. sadly we see a lot more of the poor nights...

miles made me a believer a few times this year, but im not falling for it again.
im so over cj.
 
I really hope the Jazz get a "Big Man" coach to help Favors. He has tremendous timing and what impressed me the most about his opening dunk is how he collected himself before going up. I was also happy that Big Al said he would be glad to work with Favors. It is going to be fun to watch Favors progression.
 
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