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Al had a truly fantastic offensive performance tonight. That said, I hope the Utah Jazz front office possesses the wisdom to not allow one game against a 29-win team missing its top two bigmen to skew their analysis of a 3-year body of work. Good for Al, though - great way for him to go out in...

I think Locke is 100% wrong but he did a good job backing up his points with arbitrary stats which Maloney (who obviously wasn't prepared to be thoroughly attack) often didn't have solid responses for. The 2 points that I wish would have been the primary focus are 1) Ty's in-game coaching...

He was quite good - although again part of that was he played significant minutes because Mo missed games and Utah played Foye and Burks together - with Foye playing more point than Alec but it worked fairly well since both have skillset to be combo-guards. Burks didn't play at all the first...

If you're really searching for Burks in high screen-roll, here are two back-to-back plays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsmL9vtVoS8#t=1m05s If you're searching for a play where Burks comes off the screen and explodes to the basket against a poor and unprepared defense - there isn't much...

The theory that "Burks&Kanter weren't ready to play meaningful reserve minutes to start the season but have improved so much since November that they are now productive players which is mainly due to Utah's head coach" is amusing but not very accurate. Both players had already shown the same...

Utah's average attendance since the All-Star break is the lowest it's been post-All-Star-Break since the Delta Center/ESA was built. Only sellout in that stretch was Boston in February. This is the sort of thing that will get the front office's attention more than tweets or fan complaints.

After 2 1/2 years it's clear to me that at this stage in his career Ty isn't a coach who will get more out of the collective sum of the parts, and has shown he's capable of generating less due to bizarre lineups and late-game coaching adjustments/non-adjustments. He deserves some credit for...

Generally you would prefer to go under Westbrook in high screen-roll but because the screen was set so low, there has to be better awareness that the pick is coming so Mo can fight over it at the 18-foot level. Since Al isn't a center who can defend above the rim - he needs to meet Westbrook...

I see a distinct flaw in the philosophy and direction of the franchise since 2010-11. The Jazz ended up with more assets & lottery talent than they ever had on their roster in franchise history, yet they placed a premium on going for the 8th seed - not just once (more understandable in 2011-12)...

-I'm not forgetting anything. We all know that series should've been 2-2 after 4 if not for SteveJavie/KenMauer screwjob in the 4th-qtr of Game 4. While the Spurs were the better team and still would've likely won the series - playing them even through 4 games fits with how the Jazz/Spurs season...

Aaesthetically I liked the powder blues but until this and this happens in another jersey - I'll vote for the mountain jerseys every time.

Because of the Jazzfanz obsession with beating the Lakers, the 2006-10 Jazz teams were underappreciated by many even though they matched up well with virtually every other team in the league. Injuries coupled with the inability of the FO to build upon their upward trend in the summer of 2008...

I don't think it's a sound strategy to pick a system and hope you get a "great scorer" the following year who fits in but I agree it's highly possible the Jazz take a step-back next year, and the most frustrating part of that is Utah could have accelerated that entire process by a year if they...

The OP has to be joking/trolling - because I don't think anyone with 7k+ posts on a Jazz message board could be that ignorant about their team.

"Players don't want to come to Utah because the fans are too mean and demanding" will be the organization's mantra if/when the Jazz strike out in free agency this summer with all their precious "flexibility." (For the record, I'm on board with not spending big money on FA's this summer, but the...

-Love the triangle offense but don't like the thought of it coming to Utah because it's even more personel-dependant than "Jazzbasketball" (as it was run under Jerry&Phil). While I'm high on the potential of the Core-4, the one element missing that's requisite to the triangle is an elite top-10...

Yep Jerry coached circles around Dantley in that series, and tonight was the reversal between Karl and Corbin. Rather than - say change the matchups by playing your best and most active defenders - in the 3rd-quarter Ty's first counter to Denver's run was to switch to a 2-3 zone. Denver scored...

Unfortunately Bolerjack often calls passes "skip passes" that aren't skip passes. At first I thought he just never had a good view of the play but now I'm convinced he has no idea what a skip pass is.

Great point. Last night I tweeted that Derrick Favors was already Utah’s best low-post passer and somebody pointed out his turnovers – but most of Favors’ TO issues don’t come from low-post passing - they come from ball-handling and screen-rolls when the defense rotates quickly. Boozer was...

You are the worst thing ever for my ego (but thanks).