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Game 21 – February 2, 2012: Utah Jazz @ Golden State Warriors

Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors, Feb 2, 2012 8:30 PM MST


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Go Jazz!

Is this a gamethread?

it seems so...

I’m scared, Watson’s out

Same. It'll be an interesting night...
Is it lame to say we really need a win tonight?

because, we really need a win tonight.

agree... we need to gain some momentum for the road and for the Fakers game on saturday
If anyone can find a feed . . .

None of my usual suspects are working

I sure would like a win here
For anyone wanting to see Burks at PG or more of GMoney at PG

Tonight’s the night.

No kidding

Our only true PG playing tonight is our third stringer

Ellis vs Burks

no Bell tonight..need someone to guard Ellis, give the rookie a chance, see what he can do on defense in extended minutes against a big time scorer.

Check out this GSOM article:

http://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2012/2/2/2767145/the-utah-jazz-rebuilding-a-franchise-case-study-for-golden-state#storyjump

It compares the paths of the Warriors and Jazz since 2007. Interesting read, and the writer gives some nice praise to the Jazz as a franchise.

I just shot like 10 paper balls into the trash can...

Im ready to go

No Harris, No Watson

If we don’t see some serious Burks minutes tonight I’ll be mighty upset.

Losses are a lot easier to handle when our younglings are getting more than 15 mins a night.

Only other active guards tonight are Hayward, CJ and Tinsley

Pretty sure we’ll see plenty of Burks.

if we don't see burks

i can’t even imagine it. i mean we might even see evans at the 3 with how thin we are

Lineup of Burks, Hayward, Miles, Favors, and Kanter

I want to see that one tonight

that would be awesome
no Harris, or Bell, or Watson..... i'm scared to death of Curry and Ellis
One good crossover...

And Curry’s ankles are gone, then we just worry about Ellis

Who have you seen on this team do a crossover?
Burks is our only hope...

And I’m probably stretching there

so we are missing 3 of 13 tonight

10 players, we are 2 deep at any position and that is only because we have tweeners. this will be an interesting game

Who do you guys think is gonna have a breakout game?
The pessimist in me says Steph Curry

The optimist is hoping for Burks or Hayward.

Hayward should really abuse Monta on offense.

C.J. 24 points+
Even without the drastic injury problems tonight felt like a schedule loss.

Late TV game last night at home… GSW sitting and waiting for us. Hope I’m wrong!

Two words:

Mark Jackson.

It wasn't a TV game

But the Jazz won at GS after a back-to-back last time. Certainly different circumstances, though.

Very true...

Would be thrilled if we pulled it off again!

what are the odds we get a d leaguer on a 10 day contract to back up point after tonight
oooh bring back kyle weaver

i’m in for that

Wouldn't Burks be as comfortable at PG as Weaver?
it's all about depth

10 people is not enough if we have another injury

What about Jaque Vaughn?

I think depending on what Earl finds out about his ankle we see a move before Saturday's game vs LAL
No harris and watson = n0 chance?

We can win right?

We can still win

Although I think I would feel even more confident if Earl was at least on the bench to pump guys up

im excited for this game

burks hayward and cj is bound to happen at some point. I’ll be happy

I love me some burks action

Going green tonight...

Love it.

Those green jerseys should just be our standard road jersey
I hope Hayward has a breakout game

while playing the point.

This is his chance to prove he can be the White Magic Johnson!

Tinsley Starting

Good thing I’m drinking.

What drinking game will come of this?
Hope it's not Josh Howard contested shots...

You’ll be hammered early.

haha off to a good start
Unfortunately it will probably be called BuzzKill
Alaskan Black IPA for me tonight
Point/Assist guess for Jamaal Tinsley tonight?

I’m going with 8 points, 4 assists. Total guess though, who knows what to expect!

I think 6 points 5 assists
wut happened to harris?
They better post Hayward up all night
Read that as Howard and threw up in my mouth a li'l bit.
Considering that Tinsley is our only active guy smaller than Ellis...

Any one who Ellis guards should post

Lazy transition D
Tinsley knows how to pass
Good Movement off the ball on that possession
Please lets rebound tonight
That's one area we have to dominate

and its looking ugly early, can’t let Lee get up there

whats up with the rebounds??
Zone in full effect already
golden state don't really have a choice

They don’t have the size to match up with us man on man

Not to mention that the Jazz struggle with it

But when they go back to man like they just did, Hayward has a huge advantage.

Biedrins hair makes me sad
man, they have some finishers
Howard getting his Ronnie Brewer on with that dunk
U-Slo.
posted above yours
Maybe in Utah...

Howard with the nice sneaky Brewer-cut.
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Howard getting his Ronnie Brewer on with that dunk
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Too lazy to copy and paste...

go kick a hole in the wall. I win.

Howard with the nice sneaky Brewer-cut.
He's on a 24 assist rate!
Wouldn't mind Josh Howard breaking out tonight
Love the ball movement...
Great pass Hayward.
i'm glad we are using the awesome green jerseys

at least luck will be on ourside

Tinsely to Hayward...

Pretty!

SICK

JT to Gord!

hey look we are making FTs
Tinsley!

He’s channeling Stock

ugh rebounds

thats meant to be our strong point, come on big fellas!

come on Paul pick yourself up
we still playing the Clippers?
lol millsaps not used to passes so crisp from his starting pg
Monta tries to post up Hayward, gets nothing

The SG terminator!

ok i didn't see that coming

i think that was the first time i’ve ever seen millsap not catch a pass

boxscore called it "bad pass by J. Tinsley"

lolol

Errrrrrrrrrrrr
wow it's so strange

seeing such quick and crisp passes..

no offense harris XD

Sap still in a funk?
it was only one small mistake

I’ve never seen Millsap not get it done. Give him a chance for redemption.

Was very underwhelming last couple of games...

At least last night, for sure.

Not saying it just because of that TO...

He’s been struggling offensively lately. Still think he’ll be an All-Star though

millspa is killing me the last few games... he looks so.... asleep
nice Tinsley!

calm, controlled so far, making great decisions out there.

Jamaal Tinsley or Ronnie Price?
Honestly...

JT.

Love his attitude on the bench as a vet. He’s been great.

I vote Price.

Mostly for his energy off the bench, and his D. Also he loved playing the Lakers and always played his guts out against them.

Maybe we just get Price for Lakers games?
He would have to get decent minutes though.

I always hated seeing the Jazz give up a big lead. Enter the scrubs and Price, cutting the lead to like 5-7 or so. The starters come back in and lose by 15. Always upset me something fierce.

Tinsley has looked good in all his time this year

Me likey our depth

I really like what I'm seeing from Tinsley
Jamaal can get 10 dimes today, and some here will still question why hes on this team
Tinsley makes sense for this team.

Just not playing the 2 guard.

Having him play SG last night

was like having Derek Fisher play SG

Fisher actually makes open threes at a decent clip.

I am not sure what Tinsley does as SG.

I didn't understand that either. I was wondering if Eric was in the doghouse...
I love that he isnt putting up shots

He is all pass at the moment, which I love.

Double love.
ahhhh...the he/she doctor again
I hate Jeff's little flick shot

I know it’s effective for him, but it looks so bad.

I don't like it from 15 feet out
He be a lot more effective

if he would follow his shot to the rim

I've never met anyone that likes the shot

but it works, so we have to live with it. I still hold my breath whenever he puts it up.

It doesn't work as often

for him to shoot it that often. If that makes sense.

Tinsley with already 3 assists
That's all?

Making really pretty passes all over the place.

That was a really pretty shot Hayward
i don't think the net moved
no replay on that foul?
who called the timeout. Us or them?
Bolerjack.

It’s a TV timeout

Haywards shot..

Does anyone else feel like they can tell immediately at shot release if Haywards jump shot is going to go in or not?

I am always scared silly that it is going to miss.

So no. He may or may not have confidence in his shot. I certainly don’t lol.

I swear every season the #1 word associated with CJ is "confidence"

It might be true, but I wish our play callers and sports journalists weren’t broken records.

That and consistency.
The jazz are much better than the Warriors right now

even with the back-to-back and injuries, they really should handle them. If they lose, then they have focus to blame and that is all. You got to come with passion every night. That is how you become great!!

Just jumping in

What’s the word?

Tinsley running the team well.
Bird

J/K
Hayward playing nice
Tinsley passing better than Harris

And the Warriors don't really play defense
total oh shit moment

double blocks, score for the other side

Missed layups anyone?
I wonder if Harping thinks Tinsley is a "pure" point guard?
Well Al is not having a good game...
that Golden State hoop has been unforgiving to the inside shot
WOW for the Hayward!!
Hayward with the bully move
Good Lord Hayward

That was a pretty fallaway

Burks...love that kid
love me some burks
Nice pass from Hayward

great finish by Burks

Is Burks the best finisher we have?
Gord, if he goes up strong instead of looking to pass, isn't bad.
bbj siting!
This rebounding situation is getting out of hand

Why do our guys keep tipping it instead of grabbing it? They’ve killed the glass all season, what’s going on tonight? No Earl to keep them in line?

Golden State strategy:

Throw it at the rim, get the rebound and putback.

those are G assists.
Hayward lookin' good tonight.
Really smooth stroke and a lot of confidence in his shot
#udqm
You beat me to it..........
Ugly quarter, I'll take down 3.
not bad..we missed a lot of close shots that usually should go in
Probably not the shot Ty had in mind.
LOL at Enes apologizing to the ref for not handing him the ball.
rookie mistake
T's are pricy.
hey CJ how about you shoot that the first time
When Hayward is attacking like this

it doesn’t matter if he misses jumpers.

I was just thinking that he needs to start playing like Smart CJ

more drives to the hoop, less outside shooting.

No too bad

other than the fact that Beidrins is killing us on the boards

our defensing rebounding is just pathetic.... i dont understand it.... i really dont get it
2nd straight game
What was the excuse last night?
if you clap they will dunk!!
if you clap they will dunk!!
Just gherkin back in

How’s it going?

Checkin
Ok...we HAVE to attack that lineup GS has out.
Sick spinner by CJ
Nice move, DOE
Nice move CJ
CJ with that floater in the lane has looked so good all year.
Hands up Favors
These rebounds are hitting us right in the hands
and we are out of ball glue
If only we didn't allow second chances.....
Christ!!!

does the whole team have butter on their fingers?

is the basketball greased tonight?
wtf are we doing??
missing jumpers
When Udoh is hitting jumpers...

It may be a rough night.

not looking good.
How come Favors gets all of the post of plays. Feed the Big Turkey!
I agree.

Favors has the athleticism, but Big Enes gots the mooooves…

Harpring choses the worst time to pull put his stats....

Always screws the Jazz when he does

thank you burks
LOVE ME SOME BURKS!!!
I know everone want to see Burks play the point

but it ain’t working right now

there is no offense being run right now. We look like the freaking Kings.
how so?
I just think no one seems to know when or where they're going to get the ball.
its not like hes been playing point all this time...
no, but when he has been, it's been isolation plays almost exclusively.
Burks has made 0 mistakes

His defense has been quite sharp, staying with his man.

That turnover was because CJ started doing a move before he’d caught the ball.

simple math

more shots at a decent percentage equals more points than the team taking fewer shots at a decent percentage.

REBOUND FOR THE LOVE OF MILLSAP!

Mark Jackson greased the ball up

only explanation for how sloppy this play is

first rush, then udoh

stop jinxing us harpring!!

we are playing terribly bad
i dont think we re playing that bad

they’re just getting all the bounces and rolls right now, they’ve gotten some awkward offensive rebs

we are not even trying to rebound
Tonight's game brought to you by:

WD-40 and Butterfingers

Slowest. Game. Ever.

Every time I feel there may be a semblance of rhythm and quality, someone dribbles it out of bounds and there’s a TV timeout

Trust me.

Last night was bruuuuutally slow. Even the Jazz dancers were gettin’ bored.

Didn't feel as slow to me

Maybe choppy, I should say. Pace is still pretty fast.

The second half was awful.

With the injuries, the looong TV timeouts, the refs having to discuss everything. Oh, and freaking VDN can’t sub like a normal coach. He gotta wait ’til the last effing second and toss people in. That was getting on my damn nerves.

we havent made a single decent play in this qtr

bad offense
bad defense
bad rebounding
sloppy hands….

No Point Guard
Uh oh were down.
Ay yayay.

Howard got bailed out.

only good thing about that is Howard actually hits his FTs

terrible shot, even if it was late in the clock

harpring:

he ONLY spent 3 years at washington state

seems sufficient

Harpring sees himself in that dude
haha yea, maybe it's the old school mentality

also, woot bailout foul for howard

Nate Robinson looks like Mike Tyson
or Kevin Hart
Will we be getting a Booch appearance tonight?
Boler and Harpring to fight!

over GA-tech

i dont like this game at all
Enes say gimme dat board
Chanfeed.com

If your regular game-watching sites aren’t working….

Sweet And-1 by Enes
That was lovely Kanter!
Liking Burks' defensive effort
That AND-1 just sold an Enes jersey to yours truly next Friday.

If he makes the FT.

You're welcome, Greg.
shotgun
You're driving.
Yeah buddy.

DON’T LOOK AT THE PARKING PASS!!

I look straight ahead like I'm ordering soup from the Soup Nazi.
probably a good investment, might do that myself

my girlfriend bought me a Deron Williams shirt like 2 weeks before he got traded. Sitting at the bottom of the closet now.

I had to go to the NJ game just to get some use outta my DW8 jersey.

Then I peeled it off to reveal the Favors. #youbeentraded

Goofy looking shot by Kanter

but he got the and-1

What does a bull in a Kanter shop even mean?
good question
I'm not sure Harpring even knows
It's a nick name within a nickname

Nickception

I'm a UW fan

But I hate Nate Robinson’s game. Always out of control.

the big turkey!!!
one thing i love about kanter

is his hedging. he should teach al jef

Where the hell did Udoh come from tonight?
How many off rebounds does GS have?

Like eighty?

alll of them
78 of them offensive
HAHA

Kwame Brown!!

Watching Kanter offball is so fun

He is just a big kid wandering around and doing whatever he wants. Pushing defenders out of the way and standing wherever he pleases.

why!??

Did you have to say that!!

He is my favorite Jazz player to watch currently.

I genuinely get excited every time he comes into a game.

he makes me laugh..kind of like Fes used to when he was in games
Exactly, except he is talented.
Except with talent.
Too slow!
Long as you're right...
nice..I agree
Hopefully Howard doesn't take these bailout fouls as a sign to keep shooting.
Too late
I figured he would.
Is it too much to ask for another Kanter post-up play?
by the way, did everyone know he's only 19?
I heard that from the tv guys.
If we're going to have an athletic SF making bad decisions all game

At least let it be CJ.

lol no kidding
ugh

our leading scorers are howard and hayward! Where is AL and SAP???

I don't mind Hayward as our leading scorer
Hell of a shot
I thought Hayward was going to have another block there
I vote for HUman Pogo Turkey Time
tin man hits a big one
Yep thats what we need
Both of Tinsely's buckets this year have been better than anything Blake Griffin's done.
My feed is slow!!``

out

Do the Millers pay for those on-air plugs, or is it a perk of team ownership?
They pay...

it’s such a bizarre thing to me.

tax write off?
haha tinsleyyyyyy
Likin Tinsley so far.
He for sure looks good.

But GS certainly doesn’t play defense, especially their guards.

Tinsley gettin his shot
Can you draw Tinsley as a ninja?
David Lee in the key for about 12 seconds
GRAB IT MEMO

or requisite Utah player

Tinsley just get away from him...
i dont understand why dribble that damn close to somebody..
Worst pick and roll ever.
Sloppy passes

And no defensive boarding….

That was not a foul...

Tinsley stripped him clean.

he seemed to be telling the ref as much
I got his back :)
Looked clean to me.

I wanted a replay, but whatever.

DVR still shows it was clean.
Lazy passes, bad D

Ugh.

in before JT unleashes for a triple double tonight
Really not liking Josh Howard tonight

His style of play does not suit the teams. He holds up the ball, doesn’t push to the basket, and for a guy meant to be an elite rebounder I haven’t seen him helping on the defensive glass.

Ty needs to make some sense out of the guys tonight, we have no fire... we are losing all the rebounds and making just so much turnovers
Is there a way to mute Matt Hapring?

I can’t take it. Leaving Curry open for 3 is like a layup? There is an NBA player that shoots 40% for layups!?!?!

Hayward?
HARPRING!!!

Haha..

Lol, good point.
leading the league in off-the-hoop assists though
I laughed.

But leaving Curry open for 3 really is a terrible idea.

Ground Control: calling Millsap..are you out there Millsap..can you copy Millsap?
Beautiful pass to Al
There we go!!!
Sap scored!
Al looks shocked with these passes from JT
Fitting that Big Al makes that shot

w/ “Lucky” on the scorer’s table

JT is gonna get a dub-dub!
Tinsley has what... 7 dimes?
I can live with being down 2.

We should be getting killed. JT keeping us in it.

Yes

It feels like we should be down at least by 10 at a minimum.

Yeah, a blistering pace as Big T just said

unfortunatley sloppy as hell also

Yeah, good thing we're playing the Warriors this game

Most other teams we’d be getting killed

They have 15 more shots than we do.

That is insane that we are in it.

Wow, 6, 7, and 4 rebs!

Tinsley going for the Earl triple double..

Had to get off the thread because I was a bit behind

But that half was more fun than I thought it would be.

yeh it sucks that these streams are about a play behind

whenever I see a comment on here like “f u curry” i know to expect a made shot :(

I'm really liking what I'm seeing from Tinsley

He seems to be directing things confidently, and has the attention and respect of the rest of the team on the court when he’s out there.

anyone else think that tinsley should get more playing time?
All I'll say is that I'm not missing Raja all that much

I know he’s turned it on a bit in the last few games, but even so…

I am ok with him and Earl splitting the pg time.

Oh we have another pg?

none that I can think of
Isn't this what happened with Watson last year?

No one knew what to expect from him, finally got a game where he could play some significant minutes, and is now a fan favorite?

that over the back pass from tinsley might be the best pass from the jazz this year
best non-alleyoop pass all year
i thought it more impressive though tinsleys alley oop pass from beyond half court was sick
really glad that tinsley is on our team right now

needs a nickname

like the tinman

he doesn’t have a heard, and might have squeaky joints

heart not heard by the way
Anyone else like Burks as PG?

He wasn’t the second coming of John Stockton, but he was settled and in control.

I saw nothing to complain about, and his defense was great
not so much really.... to me he is a pure sg
I guess I was imagining a Hayward/Burks backcourt in the future

I think it will really work.

yes at this point i might give devin away for peanuts lol
though i loved his little fake pass twitch he tries to pull every other time.
He seemed to not make many mistakes.

I didn’t see him setting anyone else up all that well, but I don’t know that he will ever really be good at that.

I think he's a good filler

But I wouldn’t trust him to play a majority of minutes there

Warriors broadcast

Talking about how they should be doing better because “the Jazz played last night”.

I’ve yet to see this be a significant (if at all) disadvantage.

I like how this looks

As if we were all busy vomiting uncontrollably to continue posting

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