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This award looks almost certain to go to Jokic from all I hear and read. Fine, he is a helluva player. But I am blown away that no one on the team with the best record even gets mentioned in the top 10! Not Spida, not the Stifle Tower. Heck, even second place Suns get a lot of mention of...

The Warriors are going through the playoffs like the proverbial hot knife through butter. It took an epic effort by the Cavs to beat them in one game. It is pretty clear that you are going to out-Warrior the Warriors. No one is going to be able to assemble a similar team of super talented...

Can someone make the case that starting D Favs will improve our offense right now? And I mean a fully functioning healthy D Favs. I see him with the starting group as hindering our offense: he will tend to clog the lane. And currently, I like the spacing we are getting with our current...

The NBA and the US Golf Association apparently went with the highest bidder to broadcast their premier events: the NBA finals and the US Open golf tournament. The winning bidders are producing significantly inferior products to what they could have had. Anyone like the ABC b-ball commentators...

From BBallbreakdown. "5. Jeff Withey, Utah Jazz 2015-16 salary: $947,276 Win shares: 1.5 Dollar per win share: $631,517.33 The Utah Jazz couldn’t have expected Jeff Withey to play anything more than spot minutes for them when they signed him in late August, as Derrick Favors and...

I like Neto a lot: good handle and movement with the ball, gifted passer, pretty good D. But dang, he cannot get the ball to go into the hoop. Why is that anyone? His form looks good to me, he generally looks to be in good position when he shoots. Whats up with that? What is his long term...

Just wondering what our O looks like this year with a different PG than the end of last year with Dante out. I doubt it will be Trey due to his inability to facilitate, especially with Hayward. What if Neto, a pass first PG starts? Seems like that will be a big change from Dante's "hand it...

So, Olynyk yanks Love's arm out of it socket, disabling Love for the rest of the playoffs, possibly shortening his career. And for that he gets a one game suspension? I would suggest that when an injury occurs from a deliberate foul, then the player committing the foul should be suspended...

Already as many wins as last year with no vets on the team, not a one. Vastly improved D. And doing it with some guys who barely belong in the league getting big minutes. Excellent work DL and QS. From SLC Dunk: The team has improved in every single factor except its own turnovers. Think...

I think we all tend to think of young centers like him as potential Kareems or hakims if they can just work some on offense. I doubt that he can actually ever become of a force on offense or he would show more of that now. So, what is a good analogy for what kind of center he could become...

From The Atlantic Magazine: "How NBA Teams Fool Themselves Into Betting Too Much on the Draft They tear their rosters apart to land a top pick, who they assume will lead them to salvation. The psychology of a strategy that seldom works. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the...

From the Trib re headbands: ""I haven’t seen a headband yet that helps a guy make a shot or a get a rebound," Jazz coach Ty Corbin said when asked this weekend about his team’s policy prohibiting them. "We’ve got towels if they want to wipe the sweat off their face." Headbands have long...

Name Rank MPG Hayward 21st 36.1 Favors 81st 31.5 Burke 93rd 30.7 Jefferson 136 27.3 Burks 138 27.2 Williams 140 27.1 Kanter 158 25.4 These guys are so young, why aren't more of them in the top 20?

It is pretty amazing that b-ball allows time outs to bail out a player under duress. Guys who get trapped can call a TO and bail out of the situation. Or guys who cannot inbound in the 5 seconds. What bs, they need to change that to you only call a TO when you have clear control and no...

The Grizzlies made it to the WCF and have a chance to go all the way, notwithstanding losing yesterday. Not that they are a favorite, but they have a chance. So I turned on the game yesterday and was struck by their line-up: Gasol, Randolph, and a bunch of average roll players. And...

Watching one of the elite teams recently, Miami I think, I was amazed at how many corner 3s they got. Spurs seem to do the same. The Jazz seem to me to get very, very few. Then I went to check out how important they are and was amazed at what the stats show according to this article...

The Jazz are all about history, and patience, and Tyrone Corbin. Gotta bring along the young one slowly, really really slowly. Seems they forgot the part about competing and championships. So what do we "stand for"? Can we really hope this is all just pre-trade disinformation? " Jazz’s...

From the Trib: " Utah Jazz: Korver and Harris compare notes on stints in Utah By Bill Oram | The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Jan 11 2013 05:46 pm • Updated 8 hours ago Atlanta • Kyle Korver and Devin Harris didn’t play together in Utah. They were separated by nearly a year, a...

From Monson: "Foremost among Jazz players who foul a lot is Paul Millsap, who finished second in the league in total personal fouls during last year’s shortened season with 222. Only the Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins fouled more. The season before, Millsap finished tied for third with 272. Al...

The Jazz have always (at least since Malone) been a team that focused on the bigs: Malone-Eaton, Malone-Ostertag (okay, a weak one there), Boozer-Memo, now Al-Sap. The offense has always centered on those guys. We look set to continue that ad infinitum with Favors and Kanter. But then I...