Jazz Addicts Anonymous
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Hearing his voice always makes me feel the aura of being in a cold Ford Taurus, waiting for it to heat up, and it being dark outside.
jerick
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I am from China and I lived in Utah for two years in primary school.My mum took me to a Jazz game when I was six(?),and I started to watch the Jazz since the Hayward era(the year before they went into the west semi finals)
Hayward was my idol back then,but never could I imagine him to leave his home team and leave nothing behind.I came through the Mitchell-Gobert era,and now I’m expecting greater accomplishments in the Markaneen era.
Most excited moments:little?Perhaps when ISO joe scored the layup to kill G1,or when Markannen became an all-star and stays in Utah
Other not so pleasing moments:
Hayward leaves Utah
Conley misses buzzer-beater
Lose four straight games against clippers
Bojan misses open three in G6
Mitchell&gobert get traded
……
Some day in junior high I occasionally opened this website looking for Jazz news and now I check on it maybe every day,and then I knew of nice Jazz fans up here,very friendly too.The part I like most is the aftergame comments from other teams’ forums.It’s just fun to read them.And this is part of the reason why despite the Jazz weren’t so good these years and my classmates are pure haters(they just freaking tell me trade Lauri and sell the team every day),I’m still a Jazz fan.And our class bball team used the classic edition of Jazz Jersies,my IPad used Jazz wallpapers,and in 2k I led the Jazz to over 10 championships ……Maybe my favorite thing beside debate
(BTW:are there any debaters on this website?Really look forward to communicating)
Hope we could witness the rise of our record(along with my scores) together in the near future GoJazz!
Hayward was my idol back then,but never could I imagine him to leave his home team and leave nothing behind.I came through the Mitchell-Gobert era,and now I’m expecting greater accomplishments in the Markaneen era.
Most excited moments:little?Perhaps when ISO joe scored the layup to kill G1,or when Markannen became an all-star and stays in Utah
Other not so pleasing moments:
Hayward leaves Utah
Conley misses buzzer-beater
Lose four straight games against clippers
Bojan misses open three in G6
Mitchell&gobert get traded
……
Some day in junior high I occasionally opened this website looking for Jazz news and now I check on it maybe every day,and then I knew of nice Jazz fans up here,very friendly too.The part I like most is the aftergame comments from other teams’ forums.It’s just fun to read them.And this is part of the reason why despite the Jazz weren’t so good these years and my classmates are pure haters(they just freaking tell me trade Lauri and sell the team every day),I’m still a Jazz fan.And our class bball team used the classic edition of Jazz Jersies,my IPad used Jazz wallpapers,and in 2k I led the Jazz to over 10 championships ……Maybe my favorite thing beside debate
(BTW:are there any debaters on this website?Really look forward to communicating)
Hope we could witness the rise of our record(along with my scores) together in the near future GoJazz!
underdog
Well-Known Member
Living in Toronto, I was a Raptors fan for over 20 years and was lucky to experience the championship run here five years ago. Ater this, I followed the Raptors the next season but then lost interest in them and began to watch a few other teams. Eventually the Cavs became the team I watched the most, and I followed them pretty closely the entire 2021-2022 season. But when Markkanen - who was my favorite player on that team along with Mobley - got traded, I was pissed. I couldn’t understand why Altman didn’t push harder to move LeVert in that trade instead of Lauri. There was this one dude on their fan board who kept saying that if Bickerstaff gave Lauri more freedom to play, he would be a 25 PPG player. This fan saw it, and I agreed with him. Anyway, the next season I still followed the Cavs a bit but at the same time started to watch the Jazz because I was curious to see how Lauri, Sexton, and Agbaji played. And then little by little I got hooked on the Jazz and dropped the Cavs.
So I haven’t been a Jazz fan for long, just a couple of years. Why the Jazz? I guess one reason was that it was a fairly new team for me in the sense that I hadn’t watched them much. Also, I’ve always cheered for underdogs. And Lauri breaking out. Idk, but yes, I got addicted. Last season I watched all the Jazz games. Whenever I had a stressful day at work, my mood picked up when I remembered there was a Jazz game in the evening. I watch the games with my dog (the one on my avatar). When a game starts, he comes to lie down next to me. I guess he senses that I love watching the games and he wants to be part of it. Well, he snores throughout the games, but he lifts his head every time I cheer and pump my fist.
So I haven’t been a Jazz fan for long, just a couple of years. Why the Jazz? I guess one reason was that it was a fairly new team for me in the sense that I hadn’t watched them much. Also, I’ve always cheered for underdogs. And Lauri breaking out. Idk, but yes, I got addicted. Last season I watched all the Jazz games. Whenever I had a stressful day at work, my mood picked up when I remembered there was a Jazz game in the evening. I watch the games with my dog (the one on my avatar). When a game starts, he comes to lie down next to me. I guess he senses that I love watching the games and he wants to be part of it. Well, he snores throughout the games, but he lifts his head every time I cheer and pump my fist.
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JimLes
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I grew up in Zagreb, Croatia back when it was the clear-cut second best country at basketball in the world. Obviously a fan of my hometown Cibona when I was a wee boy. By the time I was 12, I used to take a tram across the city with a couple of friends every other Thursday night to watch Euroleague games. One of the friends happened to be the son of the Croatian minister of sports and education so the tickets were readily available and in basically any section we wanted to. Around 1995, I was given a hacked copy of Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs and I happened to watch the later rounds of 1995 playoffs on German TV and my friends and I suddenly started playing basketball because we had to dodge the cops one summer day. By the time the 95/96 NBA season started, I was a Jazz fan for no reason other than my video-gaming friends had assigned the Jazz to me when we played the game mentioned above.
There were only 8 teams in the game, and as luck would have it, the Jazz were one of the eight. That's DOS version, anyway. Pretty sure the Jazz were replaced by the Blazers in the console port. I sometimes think this is symbolic of the way life is. You don't choose most things, they're just assigned to you. Your name, your parents, your ethnicity, country of birth, social class, etc. You didn't choose them, but you accept them and roll with them. Same goes with my Jazz fandom. It was assigned to me and I went full in. No other teams, no flirtations while the Jazz suck, nothing like that. As a kid, I could perhaps allow myself to like players who weren't on the Jazz, but nowadays, I can't even do that. I hope they all tear their effin' ACLs and the Jazz win a title by default, if need be.
There were only 8 teams in the game, and as luck would have it, the Jazz were one of the eight. That's DOS version, anyway. Pretty sure the Jazz were replaced by the Blazers in the console port. I sometimes think this is symbolic of the way life is. You don't choose most things, they're just assigned to you. Your name, your parents, your ethnicity, country of birth, social class, etc. You didn't choose them, but you accept them and roll with them. Same goes with my Jazz fandom. It was assigned to me and I went full in. No other teams, no flirtations while the Jazz suck, nothing like that. As a kid, I could perhaps allow myself to like players who weren't on the Jazz, but nowadays, I can't even do that. I hope they all tear their effin' ACLs and the Jazz win a title by default, if need be.
outerspacefan
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The Jazz kissing the cup among devastated bodies.... good lord I'm wet
Here's a little propaganda that all us addicts won't be able to resist:
View: https://youtu.be/UrOU7xyVo0c?si=Cxvh5oPj-8De4ZYB
View: https://youtu.be/UrOU7xyVo0c?si=Cxvh5oPj-8De4ZYB
JimLes
Well-Known Member
Throw in a plane crash in which every member of the Lakers team dies(you know, so they can make a movie years later) and I'll need tissues.
FalseFlagg K
Well-Known Member
just watched the doco Awesome watch
It's just hard to watch anything Malone is involved in anymore.
I do not post often (I prefer to just lurk and read on all internet forums) but this thread inspired me. I grew up in SLC so I've been a Jazz fan basically since birth, but I went to college out of state and my career brought me to Seattle, so I don't have anyone to talk about the Jazz with in real life. I only know a few people that are interested in the NBA at all, I assume due to the bridges that were burned when the Sonics left for OKC. That was 10 years before I moved to Seattle but NBA interest doesn't seem to have recovered.
With that said, I'm on jazzfanz to keep up with the team and see what other fans are thinking. I've always been more interested in seeing what other regular people are thinking compared to what an espn analyst or other media person thinks, and we get ignored by them anyway. I am also on the Jazz reddit page and follow all the local reporters on twitter but I think the old school forum structure is better for sports discussion so I appreciate jazzfanz a lot.
A lot of you guys are more dedicated and knowledgeable fans than I am, especially about the draft. I'm not much of a college basketball fan so reading the draft threads here is where I get most of my information about prospects. I was also never good enough at basketball to make teams as a kid, so I don't know much of the xs and os either. I don't always agree with everything I read here but it's interesting to see people's perspectives and sometimes you guys end up being extremely right - I remember reading a bunch of people really wanting us to draft Desmond Bane.
My interest had declined slightly over the past couple of seasons; the final year of the RG-DM era was one of the least enjoyable seasons I can remember as the team underperformed what I thought they were capable of the entire 2nd half of the year and in the playoffs. I decided that the next season I wasn't going to prioritize watching all 82 games like I had previously to make time for other interests, and even Lauri's emergence didn't fully suck me back in due to the possibility that he could be traded again. Not knowing if guys would be on the team long term made me feel fine about my decision to back off on the dedication to watching every game. But now that Lauri is locked in on a contract extension and we have a bunch of young guys that should be around for a few years, I'm excited for the start of the season again. Even though we're not likely to win a lot, the development of Keyonte and the rookies gives me a reason to care about what happens this year.
With that said, I'm on jazzfanz to keep up with the team and see what other fans are thinking. I've always been more interested in seeing what other regular people are thinking compared to what an espn analyst or other media person thinks, and we get ignored by them anyway. I am also on the Jazz reddit page and follow all the local reporters on twitter but I think the old school forum structure is better for sports discussion so I appreciate jazzfanz a lot.
A lot of you guys are more dedicated and knowledgeable fans than I am, especially about the draft. I'm not much of a college basketball fan so reading the draft threads here is where I get most of my information about prospects. I was also never good enough at basketball to make teams as a kid, so I don't know much of the xs and os either. I don't always agree with everything I read here but it's interesting to see people's perspectives and sometimes you guys end up being extremely right - I remember reading a bunch of people really wanting us to draft Desmond Bane.
My interest had declined slightly over the past couple of seasons; the final year of the RG-DM era was one of the least enjoyable seasons I can remember as the team underperformed what I thought they were capable of the entire 2nd half of the year and in the playoffs. I decided that the next season I wasn't going to prioritize watching all 82 games like I had previously to make time for other interests, and even Lauri's emergence didn't fully suck me back in due to the possibility that he could be traded again. Not knowing if guys would be on the team long term made me feel fine about my decision to back off on the dedication to watching every game. But now that Lauri is locked in on a contract extension and we have a bunch of young guys that should be around for a few years, I'm excited for the start of the season again. Even though we're not likely to win a lot, the development of Keyonte and the rookies gives me a reason to care about what happens this year.
The Jazz Wonderbra
Well-Known Member
The thread definitely resonates. My bedtime ritual all but requires that I open up Jazzfanz. My poop ritual definitely requires Jazzfanz (or it won't come out!). Sitting in the car waiting for kids? You got it. I found Jazzfanz while working at the U of U Hyper building around 2003 where we had a work compututer because the job was otherwise to sit and wait all day. Since then I have had 4 kids, 1 adoption, 2 foster kids that have come and gone, a major concussion, and a career. But through it all, Jazzfanz. 
I became a Jazzfan attending a few games at the Salt Palace way back when. I got a free Skybox card of Blue Edwards and started a collection of basketball cards including the entire set from Jordan's second year (Stockton's rookie season). We had tickets growing up and I still vividly remember the Jazz playoff games with Mel Gibson scenes from Braveheart going off in the 4th quarter to rally the troops and yelling at the top of my lungs as the Bear came cruising down the stairs and rallying the crowd and a bunch of Scots on the jumbotron.
I have missed watching fewer than 4 games across the last 20 seasons. Those were due to TV recording issues where my buds had all deleted the game already. This season I missed the last 6 games. It was just hard to even find a reason to watch with the tank and I have so many responsibilities and the streaming service just isnt the same as cable. My favorite 'hits' as an addict:
- Millsap's clutch play in the epic Heat game vs Lebron, Wade, and Bosh
- Stockton's shot
- SUNDIATA!!!
- Sitting front row when Spida took on Tatum at the Huntsman Center (That spin move!) and knowing we had selected an elite player who was balling 20 feet from me
- Clutch Memo time after time
- The Fisher Comeback against the Warriors
- and AK47's 5 x 5s!
The hardest part of being a Jazzfan is knowing that the league doesn't want you to win. But as Pele said... The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. I believe that we will win some day and it will be glorious!
I became a Jazzfan attending a few games at the Salt Palace way back when. I got a free Skybox card of Blue Edwards and started a collection of basketball cards including the entire set from Jordan's second year (Stockton's rookie season). We had tickets growing up and I still vividly remember the Jazz playoff games with Mel Gibson scenes from Braveheart going off in the 4th quarter to rally the troops and yelling at the top of my lungs as the Bear came cruising down the stairs and rallying the crowd and a bunch of Scots on the jumbotron.
I have missed watching fewer than 4 games across the last 20 seasons. Those were due to TV recording issues where my buds had all deleted the game already. This season I missed the last 6 games. It was just hard to even find a reason to watch with the tank and I have so many responsibilities and the streaming service just isnt the same as cable. My favorite 'hits' as an addict:
- Millsap's clutch play in the epic Heat game vs Lebron, Wade, and Bosh
- Stockton's shot
- SUNDIATA!!!
- Sitting front row when Spida took on Tatum at the Huntsman Center (That spin move!) and knowing we had selected an elite player who was balling 20 feet from me
- Clutch Memo time after time
- The Fisher Comeback against the Warriors
- and AK47's 5 x 5s!
The hardest part of being a Jazzfan is knowing that the league doesn't want you to win. But as Pele said... The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. I believe that we will win some day and it will be glorious!