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Game 17 – January 27, 2012: Utah Jazz @ Dallas Mavericks

Utah Jazz at Dallas Mavericks, Jan 27, 2012 6:30 PM MST


Tonight the Utah Jazz will attempt to avenge an early season heart-breaking loss to the Dallas Mavericks. I’m not going to write much here because I have a bad head ache. So yeah, not tonight, honey . . .

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Sight Reading:

There is a lot of D in Dallas – they flat out shut down teams. They are big on steals and causing turn overs. Our side? We’re a little light on defense, but have a Top 10 offense right now. We try to not turn it over ever. Furthermore, we do play some defense by blocking shots. Ultimately, this is going to be a rebounding issue. We’re Tops in keeping the other team off the glass; and they are 5th best in getting rebounds.

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Much more info after the jump!

Star-divide

Recapitulation:

We hosted these guys a week ago in our gym, and lost Mavs 94 – Jazz 91; and it was a game where the fans all over the world left bad about losing, but felt good about our team. Earl Watson was sticking up for the young guys, there were techs, there were dunks, and there was Derrick Favors getting tossed for being young. We hope to have the same time of fire in this game from our team. I hope hope hope hope we do bring it to Dallas. We have to see them 2 more times after this game, and I’d like to go back with a chance to still win the season series.

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The Beats and the Rests:

Dirk is out, Odom may start (I guess, I don’t know – I haven’t really done any scouting for this game). Big Al may not play either. Harris is actually playing better than Kidd right now. I’m amazed.

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Soloists:

Sadly, the soloists this time around are going to be their bench against ours – mainly Lamar Odom and Jason Terry vs. C.J. Miles and Josh Howard. If we win that match-up, we will probably win the game.

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The Remix:

We fought hard last time, and some calls didn’t go in our favor, and we lost. The remix this time around is to play with passion and finish with a win. There is no other outcome we demand.

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Liner Notes:

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Comments

Just want a well played, hard fought win tonight...

but I’ll settle for an ugly grind it out win if Favors slaps Dirk Nowitzki in the face in his street clothes.

Ill take that

Well played and hard fought.

ESPN showing Dallas as a 74% to 24% simulated favorite over Utah
Wonder if that incorporates injuries
Somewhat-

It’s showing Al, Sap, and Devin as our top three players in the simulated matchups and Terry, Marion, and Odom as the Mavs top players so I think it simulated the game without Dirk, but since Al is game time decision it looks like no adjustment was made

"let me tell you something - can I tell you something?"

in respect to the Karl Malone radio show – we are gonna win this game. or at least play damn hard. feelin’ it.

LOL

When I was leaving my office he dropped it 3 times in about 15 seconds.

bet he droped over 50 (at least) over the program

it was awesome. but i also understand why the jazz don’t hire him as a big man coach. great radio – PR nightmare!

No doubt...

but I bet 1280 had its highest rating in years today.

Big Al to play!
So what does Marion go for tonight? 30?
30 at least

Of course I hope not!

First time Ive had to

watch the other teams broadcast

Amar - digging your game intro's

nice overviews

I really want us to win this game

I want us to win EVERY game, but beating Cuban and the Mav’s in Dallas….pleaseeeee get 50 points ’sap

Green strip

Yay. How can we not win?!

Hayward looked very nervous
Business as usual then
Harris = Houdini?
Millsap

Go there all the time. I love it when we run the offense through him.

Love that Hayward hustled back and got the steal!
glad to see booboo (Beubois) starting

keeps him off the floor against the 2nd unit

1 airball
Push shot

STOP IT PLEASE :D

its okay when marion does it
Nice hustle by Hayward to get the rebound
Really like to see his effort w/ how poor his offensive game has been
he does a lot of everything

but can’t shoot the ball at the moment.

he’ll be a weapon when(/if?) they start falling

Nice dish there to Big Al
Definitely "when" not "if"

He’s got such a smooth jumper that’s just not falling lately

When it clicks for him

It’ll be great for everyone on the team

Effort has been great

Just need his shot to start dropping

Offense is UGLY thus far

Too many bad looks by Al, wings aren’t getting involved, story of 2012

my feed sucks

get what you pay for

white blob backs down green blob, orange blob goes in the red and white pixels
It'll be outrageous when green blob doesn't make the all-star game
booboo

hate that guy

Boobwah?
that be him

he reminds me of Yogi’s little buddy

Almost as much as Kleiza
almost

with a first name like “Linus” can’t help but feeling sorry for the guy

He could change his name :D
need to stop Beaubois

rly?

I have a dream

that one day we’ll have a player who can make threes

The games are 20 times more entertaining with the youth movement in
100% true

I’ve rewatched the Toronto game twice already even though it’s a loss, because I love watching Favors get minutes.

i figured out what it is about Favors

I DIG BIG TIME he goes up strong – but he goes up strong every time. he’ll get some more offensive awareness to throw in some head fakes, ball fakes, redirection or whatever. but dang he goes up strong.

dude

not against Toronto the other night . . . sigh

When was the last time Millsap had the ball?

First shot of the game?

How the hell does Marion ever get that shot to fall
lets just h0pe that our bench plays well the we will be fine
good call buddy
booboo

thinks he can drive against us everytime. Want to see how our 2nd unit will come out and play.

needs to get fouled hard

that always makes players think twice about driving

this - make him eat it down there
some needs to give him a hard foul

Not a flagrant, just something to say that driving in the lane won’t cut it anymore.

nice off the dribble take by the SAP
WoW!

Raja has been on fire lately

It's so key to have an outside threat

Because otherwise the Jazz have been dead from behind the arc

No hesitation from Raja

Good to see.

keep that up and keep them out of the zone

it killz us

Are we in full strength?
I wonder how far into the future

until there are 5 players 6’8" (ahem) like Millsap playing at one time on each team, thereby maximizing available skills

Kidd done for the night.
we better win

Dirty Dirk and Kidd aren’t playing

somebody chin check that fool Boob

When he gets in the lane

Personally I want to see Favors do a moster block on booboo
that too but he can't hard foul him
maybe Kanter will go in and give him a good hard foul

‘hey there little buddy’ that must have hurt

damn - yogi stop that chump
I hope we win so I can start reading jazz articles again with0ut pain

so The jazz need to win t0night

Sap and Big Al with the connection
I'd say, there isn't anyone better with using their body

like Millsap.

Houdini...
CJ takes it strong to the Rack after Marion schools him

nice

Smart CJ came to play, hopefully!
Damn that move by Favors

More of that please!

Weird rotations...

Evans in now

where the mods tonight

hope i’m not scaring Yucca off busting his chops a little about having his faves, etc. don’t know why i like giving him grief sometimes.

Maybe they are having a Friday night off
could be - doesn't look like they are tweeting either
Ha

I’m just watching with my kids. Don’t get on game thread so much when they can stay up and watch with me.

as you should brotha - as you should
Looks like it'll be a high scoring game
do any of you wonderful people know how to access a stream of the game via a mac?

if so i’d be happy to know :) , in other news go jazz

i think you can watch? just can't expand the window? no?

but the Mac doesn’t support Flash . . .

i’ve explored the dark alleyways of free streams and none of them seem to be compatible with my computer, softdrink may i have the stream address you speak of ?

Won't the stream play?

It should play fine. Do you need the address for the stream?

http://www.firstrow.tv/watch/104390/1/watch-dallas-mavericks-vs-utah-jazz.html
I'm on a Mac

Works for me

http://www.firstrow.tv/watch/104390/1/watch-dallas-mavericks-vs-utah-jazz.html

That ^

will try, thanks
one more question and then i'll let you all enjoy the game

it says im missing a plugin to play the video, any of you know where i can dl it?

it's the Flash plugin I think

Adobe -

Wonder why coach isn't going with

Favors + Kanter
He’s playing Evans instead…

looks like matchup vs Yi

so says Locke

looks like it worked that possesion
I think you're right

Man, Evans is another guy who can really challenge shots. Great block!

well there are two jump shots by Yi

come on JE – your getting your time kid

I don't know, but he got a great block in there
The shot clock graphic on the Jazz broadcast is brutal.

Not even close

I like Howard more when he plays in his role.

He’s not our go to play maker, which is how he seems to be playing tonight

Yep, he played like that last game too
I don't really like him shooting unless it's a last resort

He should never be pulling up for deep jumpers early in the shot clock

yeah - he's already put up 8 shots

but he’s probably amped up for this game

wtf Yi

Tonight’s Jazz killer

we need to get some chairs guarding him out there, that'll stop him
Nah, he eats chairs for breakfast
Lamar cutting up our D
Probably shouldn't let Odom go coast to coast.

No way that should happen.

Especially when he is moving a turtle speed.
He looks so much

like a ninja turtle

the Ninja Turtle

and booboo – definately

Back to back dumb shots.

CJ and JHOW

to me howard might be shooting a little too much right now

he has one less shot than big al, and half the minutes

Our D is playing great tonight - we've held them to 64% shooting
dang - that low??
by the way just got in, forgot it didn't start at 7 tonight

did i miss any highlights?

Entertaining, 30-30 first quarter.

Evans seems to be in to guard Yi.

and why isn't kanter playing?
match ups we think
Matchup play against Yi
That last dunk off the wall was nice by Evans
Evans playing tonight over Kanter

Trying to push Evans to the league for the dunk contest

Can we get Tinsley in to hard foul BooBoo and get him out of the game?

He’s slowly but surely killing us

Don't wish injuries on players
i didn't mean injured - would never do that

take him out of rhythm and make him think about penetrating. or doing anything. gads.

He'd say yes

But his dermatitis is going to say no

Nice tip in by Favors
Good sequence from Flava Faves
Sweet hustle by Favors there

I thought it was Millsap with that smooth footwork under the basket

uh oh

we are d0wn

they are playing us Long

Yi, Odom, etc.

though i guess they have to with Dirk out
This is the first game in so long that I wont have to hear swat lake city
Harpring will slip it in their tonight
Mavericks stream is all thats online
and it's such poor quality :(
worse feed I've had all year
think ive found a replacement
share man share
Big Al

going with his fade away hook every time. wish he’d attack more. Guess the defender is doing a good job on him.

maybe his ankle is hurting? more difficult to attack - or want to
Boo-Boo has 2 blocks all ready
Can we try out this lineup please?

Harris, Hayward, Millsap, Jefferson, Kanter?

I don't even remember Millsap playing the 3 this year at all.
I think Kanter

should play more. I’d put size on the Mavs and push them around.

I would love to see Odom not have a good game against the Jazz.

For some reason he always kills us. He is having a terrible year, and shows up the two games he plays us.

Pull the trigger Hayward

Come on mannnnn

Booboo is a jazz slayer
Boo-Boo is eating us alive
Need to be within 5 at the half to have a chance IMO
For those watching the chuggy Mav's feed

Try this
http://www.nbaliveonline.com/nbalive/watch/?match=J&link=3&game=Utah%20Jazz%20at%20Dallas%20Mavericks
Higher quality, with Boler and Harp

Much better. Thank you much.
infinite thanks
Danger of getting blown out
Maybe we can see Kanter and Burks play then?
I'd love to see some Burks

Add some variety to our offense. Nav’s have us figured out at the moment.

Dont worry about closing out on VC

LET him shot the open 3

Nice answer by Harris
its been a while since we have a losing streak

the ryt time is n0w

Think we should all be ready for the high pick season we came in anticipating.
Starting to get that suspicion at times, too

But I hold out hope, the effort will get you plenty of growth

How high of a pick?

Jazz aren’t that bad

Marion's shooting motion makes kittens die.
Hayward should have taken that open shot in the lane
Yeah, i agree, Hayward just needs to shoot it
Big 3 for the Jazz by Devin
I laughed at Hayward on that Harris 3.

He expected another airball.

Sick pass from Millsap.
Wow, Boo-Boo is making us look silly
seriously man - he's an off the bench player wth
LOL

Booby killing it right now

Jazz need to play better help D

especially when Booboo drives in. It’s obvious Booboo’s gonna shoot it.

Defense held Mavs to 59.5% shooting in first half - way to go!
That is one way to say it.

But to be honest, I thought that number would be higher.

Booboo

7-9 from the field. He’s obviously having his way. I would put a shot blocker whenever he’s on the floor. Favors or Evans.

Doesn't look so good for this one.

Beaubois looking like a superstar again

he thinks he's Dwayne Wade when playing us

shiz

Lets try Burks on him

can’t be any worse than it already is

he's making Harris look like an old man

otherwise DH is playing okay

Sounds like a good idea

FYI Beaubois’s field goal percentage this season: 39.2%
Jazz cannot let him make easy layups.

This is the only person on our team who should be on him

Nobody else makes sense. Watson does too, I guess. But Burks is great defensively, and is the right kind of athlete. Coaches oughta adjust to that at half

be interesting to see what they do coming back out

would enjoy listening on the half time talk

We should be able to vote who plays,

I doubt coach will give Burks much time, but I think it’s the right move.

ha

that would be funny. one game a year. we get to play coach. awesome

A baseball team did it.

One of Bill Veeck’s. I think it was the White Sox, but I’m not sure.

And I'm really thrilled that Hayward is having an outstanding game.

Only two shots, but all the other stuff he’s doing is simply great.

get on the line and tell him to keep shooting

he’s passed up some open looks

Yes he has.

I’ll tweet him and see if he’s checking during the half-time break.

yeah, that's my only gripe
And Howard was awful.

#FreeAlecBurks

Do we have to start this again?

Yeah, we should definitely mass tweet it at Corbin when Burks must be freed
Dallas guards have put up 35 on us

a lot of that has to do with bad rotations by the bigs . . .

I wish I could say that Millsap was a good at rotations

but honestly he’s a little slow with it. Doesn’t help that Big Al isn’t as good either.

will burks play better d on beaubois?

how has beaubois been running all over us…

HORNY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jazz playing big man
Only Mavs players shooting less than .500 are Marion and Jones
Sit Big Al

His ankle is killing the team right now

so much for the DEFENSE talk in the locker room
Millsap is a contortionist!
He's houdini
bull shiz - that was a charge
geesh,

no call for Harris on offense, and they don’t call the charge on Beaubois.

Good ball movement
Hayward is such a nice passer
Is it over?
Marion has been denied the whole game when hes trying to post up Hayward
And Marion should by physically dominating him

Hayward’s man-to-man D has been unreal today.

Haywood is killing us on the offensive glass.
could put Kanter in there on Haywood
We bailed them out by giving that board to Haywood
Ding Ding
Raja our best player tonight?

oh lordy…

He's a "really good dude"
We need to get on the boards
weak arse foul

hellz

Hayward having a solid game tonight
Hayward has such a nice FT stroke.

Please let his shot start falling, thanks.

Another sweet pass from Hayward
Having a floater in your game is a great shot to have
nice pass G

we’re still in this . . . surprisingly

That might be an illusion
yeah i jinxed it
Holy frick

Hayward’s playmaking is just beautiful tonight.

Haywood playing PG

That’s why I think he should be playing SG instead of SF.

Hayward, my bad
LOL

Boler got your keyboard?

id be happy with Haywood playing PG for Dallas
yes yes yes

funny when he was drafted we wondered if he could play the 2

what if we are wrong thinking Burks is possibly a PG,

What if they think it is Gordon as a PG?

Maybe thats why he passes first
He could post up and pass
Who is this Burks you are talking about?
I thought we had solved some of our interior defense problems.

Tonight suggests otherwise.

That was so an offensive foul - lowered the shoulder
I've only been able to watch the last 2 min of the 1st half and the 2nd half but the refs are killing me!
yeah - not good

when are they?

That actually hasn't bothered me too much this game.

We are beating ourselves bad enough that maybe I have just missed it?

agreed

this sucks – so much for defensive adjustments at the half

I think we are going to lose
Please put Kanter and Burks in

We’re not going to win playing like this. We need a change before the lead blows out any more

I really don't understand

why we didn’t even play Kanter. I understand match up situations, but come on, Kanter is such a big boost offensively and defensively. Could easily match up against Haywood.

no offense with him in the game though
Are we going to break out the ice picks or just pack it in?
i wouldn't mind actually

game tomorrow against SacTown isn’t there? seems everyone is playing at half-speed

Jimmer's in everyone's heads already
Unfortunately

Dreading tomorrow

Maybe Hayward is the PG of the future?
No
He passes better than anyone on the team, except Earl.

And he could post up all those Walls, and athletic PGs. And get run on some. But still.

Kanter sighting
Kanter sighting
Kanter not getting pt

Could it be that he gets lost on offense when they go zone? He’s in right now let’s see if he’s gotten better

there you go with the good rotation D for Kanter

nice job

Millsap is better than everyone.
and he's not having a great game
sign of a true star

hope the jazz keep him foreva

Such a beast.

I really hope he retires as a Jazz man.

+1

He just beat the whole Mavs team there by himself.

Awesome continuation call for Sap!
Kanter in, touches ball, gets points

Well look at that Coach. Maybe he should get on the court earlier than 5/8’s into the game

That's why I like Kanter in there

He’s almost automatic if he can catch it close to the basket. Meaning, he’ll either get a layup or most like get fouled.

Kanter the "filled out dude"
Re Kanter "That is a filled out dude"
"that is a big 19 year old there. that is a filled out dude"

UDQM

I like how the thread has an echo
Somehow it seems like Kanter and Bell are the only ones that have been able to stay in front of Boobwah
+1

Bell’s doing such a better job on Beaubois.

Kanter is great getting out on the perimeter D

that was a hella shot by booboo – basthad

I think Millsap wants to take over....
Mavs announcers with a mixture of burying and complimenting Kanter
And more burying
For what? How do the bury him for being awesome?
they will pay

with the karma jinx on the UnderKanter

The UnderKanter will...*puts on glasses*

Bury them instead.

thank you Precious

g-money

Hayward not thinking and taking the shot - that's how you do it!
Hayward getting it done

Sap is still a beast!

nice sub

Nice to see the team get a boost after Kanter comes in.

is that whack how he gets out on the perimeter double team and then get's back to the paint

hard to do that all game though – video game D – but great to watch

Hayward with 8 pts and 6 assists
Millsap taking over
love seeing him

take charge and put the team on his shoulders.

"Dallas will have to pay attention to Millsap"

Good call announcer guy

I love when they point out the obvious
Sap cuts it to 3
Kanter has to be +8 right now
+11

he does have very good offensive awareness. just not always great at finishing

Booboo is a 39% shooter.

can’t make outside shots. 2nd half we’re playing better D on him. I love how coach put Bell on him.

Kanter making the move
Millsap might have missed that 3.

But I actually wanna see him take that more often. Why not?

I love the Millsap 3

Always have flashbacks to Miami

Blah end to this quarter
Kanter argues otherwise.
Bo-boo gets us again
wtf roddy

shiz – not dwayne wade – derrick rose

Mavs announcers praise Terry for taking a 2-1 open 3

Buries Millsap for doing the same

Kanter saves the end of the quarter
tough to put in Burks cause Raja is playing pretty well
Kanter came in and the Jazz went on a run

I love Coach Ty but come on, it shouldn’t have taken so long to get our #3 pick, the IstanBULL, into the game.

He might get 2 minutes in the 4th now.
he didn't play great against Toronto though . . .

so it’s understandable ya think? lit a fire under him though.

I thought he played well

He didn’t get enough minutes but he had two monstrous dunks and a nice block on the other end.

yeah - more the second unit as a whole
Mavs now *only* shooting 53.8% for the game
the guards are a combined 20 of 33 . . .
I'm coach

I’m going big on these Mavs and dominate the paint. Just like how Kanter is dominating inside.

Kanter's bruising style just works so much better against the Mav's than Al's dip, duck and dive.
you forgot dodge

bring out the wrenches

Need Kanter and Favors to keep this within striking distance while 'Sap and Al get rest
Fouled by the chairman!
Great D by the UnderKanter
Kanter is killing it

Ref’s don’t like blowing whistles against the Mav’s though

Come on Kanter and Favors!

the twin towers, let’s make a run.

Holy Lord

This is ugly. Oh, and hi. Finally.

yo Doc

welcome to the beat down – or here let us let your second team look like all-stars

Apparently. I came back and we were down 2 after I turned my radio off on the phone down 14.

Oops.

All right, the French guy is yelling...

Can someone please knock him down?

Our perimeter defense is just oh so bad.

perimeter

CJ's IQ just went down
I don't understand how our offense plays so well with extra passes one game

then plays like this with everyone hogging and putting up bad shots

guess it’s something we’ll have to get used to with this young team

Except it isn't the young guys doing it.

CJ and Howard need to stop shooting imo.

What caused this outburst?

the Utah-based member of Mavs Moneyball
signing in! Dang, my fellow Utahns are rude to me, they’d prefer I never post at SLC Dunk again because I have the audacity to cheer for the Mavs at Mavs Moneyball EVERY GAME smh

Brad James

got this response which I'm considering signing up to MM to reply to...

‘f**k em then
that’s no way to treat somebody. you have the right to choose which team you cheer for’

it's war man
I'm in
Yeah, I better.
Aww..

I can’t. Well, I’ll reply above to what I would have said.

This is what's frustrating.

PICK A TEAM. You cheer for the Mavs, Jazz, and Bucks, and no, it’s irritating to see someone who says they’re a big Jazz fan root against them. I get it. You like the Mavs. And it’s not that I don’t want you posting on ‘Dunk. That’s your prerogative. But don’t expect me to treat you like someone who is part of what we are here… Jazz fans through and through.

Yeah, but he's just some guy

So…who cares

Exactly.

Still bugs, though.

Because he comes in here and acts like his a die hard Jazz fan like the rest of us...

can’t be true when you bag on the Jazz during Mavs and Bucks games. That drives me nuts.

What's up with guys shooting 3's on us from half court?
Nothing but net everytime, ridiculous
Has CJ ever played well in Dallas as a Jazzman?
Burks! Burks! Burks! We want Burks!
#free AlecBurks
Kanter doubled every time in the post
How crazy is that?

I love it.

that was funny as hell
Same in the Raptors game

He struggles against the double.

Who I would put on the court if we want a chance at winning this thing:

PG: Hayward
SG: Raja
SF: Burks
PF: Millsap
C: Kanter

Hayward would probably get torched. I really wanna see Burks on Booby.
What happened to Odom being a piece of garbage?

Oh right, he’s playing us.

Odom now killing us
It would be cool if we didn't leave people sitting open for 3.

Just something to think about.

And this one is over

When shots like that fall, you don’t win games on the road :(

I think we need our PG of the future, now

Especially on the defensive end

I'm more and more in agreement

but who?? anyone in this years draft?

Id be open to a trade, since there are a lot of good PG's in the league atm

But how do we find a good PG that could develop to be great?

DJ Augustin?
Johnny Flynn?
Mo Williams?

I just don’t know

so what? trial by error?

Augustin isn’t happening. Mo Williams? for who? they’re not taking Harris? Johnny Flynn? There dumping him this summer it sounds. Maybe we pick him up for a year and see what happens.

but this game

was just bad Defense. and hot shooting by Dallas period.

Lamar Oden . . . and booboo

wtf?

oldham - odom - whateva

turtle ninja

its over. Say hello to 2game losing streak
I usually get mad at your endless negativity

But today, you’re right on the money

it ain't over yet

but it sure seems about as close as it can be

wait

offensive board on a free throw – forget it

Jazz will lose games when teams light it out outside

It’s really a hit or miss. Jazz let teams shoot the three. They make it, they win.

Mavs are 62.5% from down-town
Good teams will make open looks.

Stop letting them shoot the three.

Yeah, I wish the Jazz would change their philosophy on D

just play D where ever they shoot. That’s more honest.

Millsap is working so hard to carry the team

wish he got help from our wing players. Someone else needs to step up on the wing.

looks like were gonna have to break the law

join the rebellion

umm Burks anyone?!
At this point I would almost rather him get a DNP.

Let him play the last 3 minutes so he can go off on scrubs when they bring in their third stringers? Meh, that doesn’t help him. Just makes him think he can play out of control and not within an offense.

were making haywood look like moses malone
Big Al is such a lazy defender

When he has a big offensive game people don’t seem to notice/care as much, but in a game like this it’s an infuriating weakness

MORE KANTER!

Let's put in the youth team; get them some crunch time experience - if we lose, lose young
Too late for that.

This is garbage time now.

Yeah, he doesn't look fully back from his injury

He’s been a no presence this game.

I wouldn't call 19 pts, 6 boards, and 3 blocks as a no presence
I wouldn't call his 20 or so FGA no presence either

Give those shots to people who make the bucket. Al is back to his old tricks of taking on the double team.

He's 9 of 18, I'll take that from Al
He had a couple decent passes. But I am trying to not focus on the negative when it comes to Big Al.
Just wish he'd draw more fouls when he shot
he's playing hurt tonight

you can see it. and unfortunately he let’s it affect his defensive game more than his offensive.

still we need him right now. Toronto showed that.

Long 4-point trip seals it

On to the next one.

Why not sit Al for the final 4 1/2?

Let him rest his ankle for tomorrow, get Kanter/Favors some burn?

Coach Ty has a bit of CJ's Bball IQ

Usually makes great adjustments, sometimes makes infurating mistakes (no Kanter, too much Al, not calling that TO against the Lakers)

Except CJs been playing for 7 years. Ty's been coach for 40 games.
oh of course, it's much more understandable when Ty makes a mistake

I think his coaching potential is really high, he’s done a better job than anyone expected thus far

I also think Ty is trying to balance ego's and player confidence

giving them opportunity to do what they need to do. tough job

This game may be a good indicator of what February/March is going to be like for us

And it doesn’t look good

Really need to win tomorrow and against Portland to finish the month strong

The schedule only goes downhill

lot of road games

could very well be the case

Yup,

Was hoping the Jazz have that fighting mentality going but today, they just don’t look hungry or sharp. (except for Millsap)

Kanter brought it for the few minutes he played
Well, that does it for me

Let’s hope they respond better tomorrow back home.

So our GTD players are playing with 3 minutes left down 20?

WTF?

It really does upset me that Burks gets to play when we are down 20.

Because everyone else was so effective tonight?

Even if Burks stinks, playing poor performers sends a bad message

CJ and J-Ho need to earn their minutes. If they come out and put up bad shots, put Burks in until they learn their lesson

I totally agree.

And for the most part Burks has played well, in his VERY limited playing time.

Burks has played well...

but it seems like his best minutes are only during garbage time. As with about 75% of the league he just needs to learn some consistency.

He doesn't get too many minutes other than garbage time.

And I will take inconsistency from a rookie.

Who should he be taking minutes from?
Does raja need close to 30 minutes a game?

I mean he played fine tonight. But he didn’t do much against the Raptors. Sure he didn’t kill us, but did he do anything to help us win? Maybe, I don’t honestly remember. Also Howard and CJ have not played good in the last 2 games. And you could see it pretty early, why not give him some of their minutes. Feels like 10 minutes of MEANINGFUL playing time, shouldn’t be too hard, especially when our wings really aren’t contributing much.

Raja played pretty well against Toronto...

I definitely agree that Howard and CJ have been less than stellar the past couple of games, but in Ty’s defense CJ has been playing well recently and Howard is just coming back from an injury.

If Howard doesn’t have “it” early tomorrow than I think Burks should at least get a look.

Our wings have not been good or consistent all year.

Sure there are stretches where they look good. But no one has stepped up consistently. 10 minutes of meaningful minutes, consistent playing time, seems reasonable.

Burks doesn't play smart though

look how he came out in those last minutes . . .

As I posted below.

He gets 3 minutes of complete garbage time to show what he can do. What is he supposed to do? Play within the flow of the offense? In garbage time? No, he is going to come out chucking, and force things to try to make an impact. And it does nothing but hamper his growth.

i want to see him play more too

but i think they have a good idea by what he does (or doesn’t do) in practice. i think if he earns it, it will come. it’s early yet. and he’s up against some long time vets in Raja and even CJ. i’d rather CJ get his shot to prove he still can be here. too long an investment we put in him. CJ is an unrestricted FA this year. Burks will probably get more than plenty of PT . . .

The real issue is that Howard was dreadful

Play CJ at SF, bring in Burks as SG. Ugh.

CJ is a fun follow on Twitter, but he needs to go after this season...

and let Burks get the PT

Mistakes were clearly made with how CJ was brought along.

So a good idea is to repeat those mistakes and not give consistent minutes to young players.

I think the new coaching regime will be better (hopefully) w/ bringing along the young'ns
I want to believe you.

But so far I have been pretty disappointed. Kanter and Burks should have been playing in the first half.

Practice (said in AI's voice)???

Have they had a practice this year? I think Ty has clearly shown this year, that playing time is given out, not earned.

That's why the last 3 minutes is the WORST way to hope he develops.
HE'S A ROOKIE ;)

lates boyz

sigh

Not at you, but because it really is the Jazz way.

He is a lottery pick with huge upside.

I am not asking him to start, or play RAJA BELL’S FREAKING MINUTES. I am asking for any meaningful minutes. ANY.

everyone was crying they wanted CJ in the other night against Toronto though . . .
I wasn't.

Sure CJ had a small stretch where he looked good. But the first half, and in the majority of his minutes, he looked bad. And not just bad, really bad. I was fine, in fact I preferred that Hayward stayed in the game.

coach Ty, please,

lets play Burks, he can contribute most definitely. I thought against the Mavs, someone like Burks might have been a better plug.

Why do these Dallas commentators know Eric's real name!?!?!?
UnderKanter has 8 pts 6 boards in only 9 minutes
We need a wing player to step up and be the man

among Hayward, Bell, Howard, and CJ no one scored in double digits. We desperately need big time contribution from our wings.

Agreed, everyone's collapsing on the bigs when they get the ball
A bank 3 by CJ?
That Yi dunk is why Kanter wasn't playing Yi
This game has been frustrating to watch

But these last few mins of the rookie’s dulls the pain somewhat.

I just really wish they got more burn.

What is the law for the 2nd team to score 100 in the game?
Brad's team always wins.

#pickateam

dallas commentators are polite =p
Kanter had 12 and 7

…why didn’t he play in the first half again? Studly.

they loved Kanter!

Hope Cuban doesnt start clearing cap for 2015

Saved his energy for the 2nd half
If Amar even thinks about putting Al in his Jazz Quintet I'll throw a fit.
I thought he was in their by default
wow...there...disorienting loss
My vote is he cuts it to a trio anyway

5 guys don’t always deserve a call out. and it’s too long. ;)

stats don't tell the story

because they don’t track a stat for shooting terrible wheezy’s over 2 guys taller than you

he had a good game for playing hurt

i thought – and want to give him credit for that – could have been worse

this is more of what i expect this next month

hopefully wins against Sac manana and Portland we can hope

Look at Linas Kleiza's line tonight

0pts, 0-5 (0-2 3pt) 5reb, 4ast, 1 BA

That's hilarious and infuriating
That'll be Beaubois' line next Mavs game too.
And Odom. And Yi.
sigh...such is life
Raptors game didn't make me mad

This one made me mad.

this
I lied...

I read that wrong. The Raps game made me mad… this one didn’t.

opposite here

we should have won that game. i didn’t expect a win here.

It made me made because Ty did what I dreaded at the beginning of the season.

Played vets (Al & Howard in this case) even though they sucked and left the rookies on the bench. Kanter, thankfully, came out in the second half, but the Burks thing was unbelievable. Especially since he could have freaking guarded Beaubois.

I totally agree with Yucca.

But that comes as no surprise I am sure.

no surprise ;)

peace out dudes

Agreed, this one was more about effort

Seemed liked they quit after the Mavs hit a couple of threes and didn’t even show up defensively at all in the fourth.

But I suppose they weren’t exactly shutting them down earlier,

Kanter had the best +/-

of all the Jazz players, he had +/- 9

Howard and Big Al had the lowest

+/- of -18

sry that looks confusing, Kanter had +9
I don't put too much into that stat, like most people.

But I think Kanter played the best tonight. Well other than Millsap, who is better than everyone. Sure he didn’t play perfect, but he looked good.

Agreed.

Liked Hayward’s stats but his actual play wasn’t perfect. Still deferring on shots he should be taking.

Also was impressed with Favors, who only had 17 minutes (WTF Ty?)

A chunk that of that was garbage time.

He played ok. And Hayward did a lot of really good things on both offense and defense, but he for sure could have been more assertive. But at this point with him I am just happy to see him shoot it at all with confidence.

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