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Utah Jazz @ Cleveland Cavaliers, Monday December 20, 2010 5:00 PM MST

Cleveland is just an ugly team to watch - they don't even try to run plays in transition - the first guy open jacks up a 3
 
Question: I buy into the philosophy that it is important to have a bench player who can come in and be an "instant offense." Think Vinny the Microwave. Barring Fes becoming that guy, don't you think it's better to have CJ be that spark just so that when the starting 5 get out of the game, a terrible vacuum isn't created? Because I think it's better as it is.

maybe when memo is at full strength cj can move into the starting lineup with memo and ak of the bench
 
We won the first quarter but we had 13 points at the 4 minute mark. Slow starts have not been solved. At this point, I'm thinking Jerry needs to pull a Junior High Move and demand no jumpshots get taken until 10 seconds are remaining on the clock for the 1st 5 minutes. That won't work, obviously, but this whole mental thing about starts is becoming a disease.
 
Al absolutely has to be leading the team watching film. He played reasonably well, tonight. But I could break down his flaws 2 ways: 1) He's still spectating when shots go up (yeah, 4 ORB's). It's just not ingrained in him to be looking for garbage putbacks the way it should be. 2) He's still a step slow going to the basket on offense. Deron dished a perfect pass to him tonight late in the game but he wasn't moving. He's still learning that EVERY time Deron gets the ball he HAS to go to the basket. And at this point, AK can barely use him because if Deron doesn't have the ball, he's in a Minnesota state of mind.
 
I think that'd work well, Dutch.

with cj and raja in the starting lineup as legitimate 3 point threads. it will open up the floor for sap and jefferson.

dreon sap and jefferson can do some kind of pick and roll .
lets say deron and sap do the pick and roll/pop. if jefferson mans switches on sap sap can pas it underneath for Jefferson for the easy layup. if not sap could pop a 15 foot jumper. if deron is open he can pop a fre throw line jumper.

assuiming raja and cj's man stay on them iof not those 1 can take a three.
 
The fantastically good news is when you look at this stretch we have coming up for almost 15 games the opponents are tailor made for us to get in sync. To be 20-9 at this point is flat out ridiculous. My guess is about 7 games from now we'll look utterly dominant. It won't really be true, but it will be fun to watch.
 
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