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Jazz vs Nets | Wednesday November 17th @ 7pm

...Jazz lose to these clowns at home....and we drop out of the top 10 in the power rankings and for all practical purposes, go back to the drawing board! Heck, we might as well start accumulating ping bong balls for the next draft!
 
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Utah Jazz anxious to bounce back against Nets

By Jody Genessy

Deseret News

Published: Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 12:05 a.m. MST

SALT LAKE CITY — The Comeback Crew that took rallying to an unheard-of level now has a new challenge.
For the first time since they ratcheted up their resolve to overcome outrageous obstacles a week and a half ago, the Utah Jazz's resiliency will be tested in a different way tonight against the New Jersey Nets.

For five straight sensational games — and five consecutive eyebrow raising comeback wins over the Los Angeles Clippers, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta and Charlotte — the Jazz showed what they can do to a second-half double-digit deficit.

They nearly did that again Monday, but couldn't quite recover from Oklahoma City's 13-point lead at EnergySolutions Arena on Monday. That presents the Jazz with a new test.
Now everybody will see how this re-energized group responds after a loss.

Can Team Turnaround recover from an eight point loss to the Thunder like it did to a combined 88 points worth of leads by its previous five opponents?
"We've just got to bounce back," Jazz point guard Deron Williams said. "It's just one game. It's a long season. We played a good team."

On Tuesday, the Jazz had a rare day of practice, which they haven't had in a week since leaving last Monday for a four-games-in-five-nights stretch in the Southeast. Still, the Jazz only had nine players at full strength because of health issues for Raja Bell (strained groin), Andrei Kirilenko (sprained second knuckle on his left hand) and Kyrylo Fesenko (dizziness and headache).

A good portion of practice was dedicated to watching film, which coach Jerry Sloan hopes will help his team clearly see some of the specific execution problems on defense and offense.
"We bounced back in the game (Monday)," said Sloan, whose team was within three points in the final minute after seeing a wild 25-point momentum swing go in OKC's direction. "But we couldn't finish, couldn't make stops to finish. That's what you have to be able to do. You can't just expect to exchange baskets."

Bell, who hopes to play tonight after missing Monday's game, said the Jazz are optimistic they'll be able to return to the winning column. He believes Utah needs to be more consistent and to communicate better.

"You never really know what you're going to get until you get out there," Bell said. "But we've shown that we don't hang our heads too long and that we're able to kind of bounce back. Hopefully (tonight) we'll be ready to go."

Center Al Jefferson, who only had 12 points, five rebounds and struggled to 5-for-14 shooting, said the 7-4 team is keeping the rare defeat in perspective.
"It's just the league. You can't win them all," Jefferson said. "But you've got to learn from your mistakes and just come back and be ready to go again tomorrow. With the coach that we've got, giving up is not an option."

Making improvements is an option, though. To that end, Williams said after Monday's game that he was looking forward to practicing.
At Tuesday's practice, Williams expounded on that, saying the Jazz need to work on "concentration (and) executing for the whole game, being in the right spots and then playing defense for the whole game, talking, communicating."

Both the Jazz and Thunder shot a tad over 50 percent Monday, and Williams insists that's way too high of a percentage for an opponent to compile. The Jazz defensive communication was "good in spurts," he said. But it faltered at times, especially in the middle of the game and in the final couple of minutes when OKC built and preserved its lead.
"Bottom line is," Sloan added, "we've just got to come and play hard."

Recent history bodes well for that request from the coach. The Jazz have shown an uncanny ability to increase their effort when a comeback has been in order recently.
They don't plan on changing that trend just because a four-win Nets team is in town.

"We're not going to take anybody lightly," Williams said. "We have to come and play. This is the NBA. Anybody can be beat on any night."

Last week's comeback highlights are proof of that.

e-mail: jody@desnews.com
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Nets gamethread is hilarious. It seems like last year our gamethreads were way funny too. Fond memories. Now the threads just say who we are playing and when. Sigh
 
That Nets game thread is classic. Hopefully in the coming months we can reach down in the creative bag and come up with something like that....or just coax that guy into doing it. lol.

Anyway, I've been away for awhile, just been perusing the site from time to time when I have free moment. It's good to be back and now the Jazz are going to win win win tonight. I look forward to engaging in the Jazzversation from now til playoff time. Looking forward to checking out the boxscore tonight after what should be a good bounce back W.

(Tonights my anniversary)

Go Jazz!
 
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margodydek said:
Nets gamethread > our gamethread

https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1067629&sid=15844ee7c668625af860f1a084000ca9
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...the one clown made an interesting observation which I happen to agree with: "For us to win this game, Harris has to go back to the DALLAS MAVERICK Harris. Ball hawking and frustrating Western Conference PGs. Williams has to be pissed by the end of the first half because Harris isnt giving him any room."

I remember being very impressed with Harris' ball denial when he use to play for the Mavericks. But evidently he's not been busting his butt on defense like he use to now that he's playing for the Nets. About the only way to slow Deron down is to keep him from getting the ball as many times as you can....and at least kill the shot clock while he's trying to get the ball!
 
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