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[QUOTE]"It's just a mental thing," Favors said. "Everybody is trying to learn the defensive system and try to do the right thing, but I think it's just a mental thing."[/QUOTE]
seems like more of a talent thing. Outside Gobert and Exum everyone should be available.
[QUOTE]One of the game
[QUOTE]Utah
[QUOTE]Alec Burks is hurt. So the 22-year-old rookie Rodney Hood got his first NBA start in place of the 24-year-old Burks.[/QUOTE]
He got his first start because of tanking. Hood should be in Idaho with a couple of other guys until he proves he's ready for the show.
[QUOTE]As a result, the Jazz
[QUOTE]While both played 33 minutes, Kanter outscored Valanciunas 19-9. Kanter also outrebounded his longtime foe 9-6 and 4-0 on the offensive glass. Both big men recorded a block.
A tale of the tape heading into the matchup
Kanter: 13.3 points, 6.7 rebounds, 0.3 blocks
Valanciunas: 11. 9 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1.2 blocks
First quarter
Kanter: 11 points (5-9 shooting), 4 rebounds, 1 steal
Valanciunas: 1 point (0-3 shooting), 2 rebounds, 1 block
Starting at power forward on the night, Kanter led all Jazz scorers in the opening quarter with 11 points, while Valanciunas, matched up against Derrick Favors to start the game, struggled. Though he wasn’t always matched up with his familiar counterpart, Kanter flourished with his offensive opportunities.[/QUOTE]
Which is why you shouldn't really be comparing them. Maybe Tristan Thompson and Kanter?
[QUOTE]In one particular offensive battle with Valanciunas, the Jazz forward rotated around the opposing center for an easy layup. After making a fastbreak layup, Kanter made a solid defensive play on Valanciunas, forcing the Raptors' center into an awkward and errant shot that went out of bounds for a turnover. It was the last time Valanciunas played in the quarter.
Kanter was paired with both Tyler Hansbrough and Patrick Patterson the rest of the quarter. The Jazz big man made the most of his chances in that span, making a perfect pirouette around Patterson for a layup during one opportunity and making another basket after that.
Second quarter
Kanter: 4 points (2-4 shooting), 2 offensive boards, 1 block, 1 assist
Valanciunas: 6 points (3-4 shooting), 2 rebounds, 1 assist
Both saw significantly less time than the opening quarter. Kanter did a better job on the offensive glass in the second quarter, and even stuffed Valanciunas while on the defensive end. However, Valanciunas awoke offensively as the quarter wore on.
He hit a 10-foot jumper from the baseline in Kanter’s face, in which Kanter failed to put a hand in Valanciunas’s face. Kanter, though, responded with a quick layup on the other end.
Valanciunas skied over Kanter for a defensive board late in the quarter, then capitalized with an easy dunk shortly after on another possession. Both had embarrassing moments defensively in the waning moments of the first half. Kanter failed to rotate while guarding Patterson, which allowed Patterson to drill a 3-pointer right over him. Valanciunas was forced to foul Jazz forward Gordon Hayward to prevent Hayward from posterizing him with a monster dunk attempt just before halftime.
Third quarter
Kanter: 0 points, 1 offensive board
Valanciunas: 0 points, 2 rebounds
Both players were quiet again in the third quarter, though they were matched against each other a few times. Valanciunas picked up two defensive boards, but allowed an easy Trevor Booker tip-in. Kanter’s best play was an offensive board.
Fourth quarter
Kanter: 4 points (2-3 shooting), 1 defensive rebound, 1 offensive rebound.
Valanciunas: 2 points (1-2 shooting), 0 rebounds
Valanciunas was held to just one basket in the fourth quarter, while the offense continued to look for points from the perimeter. His lone bucket came on a nice wraparound layup on Jazz center Rudy Gobert, while his other attempt was blocked emphatically by Gobert on Toronto’s following possession.
Kanter picked up an offensive foul while trying to dish the ball to Gobert. He had a nice slam midway through the quarter and his night ended after a hoop-and-the-harm layup with 4:30 left in the game.
Final analysis
The scorecard goes to Kanter in this battle; however, since it’s basketball and not boxing, Valanciunas wins the important part. Neither played particularly great defense in the game. Kanter was efficient with his team-high 19 points on 9-of-15 shooting. His four offensive rebounds also led the team. That being said, he struggled to pick up perimeter shooters when needed and to help out when opposing guards slashed to the basket.[/QUOTE]
I see him improving defensively with each game and only one TO last night as well. Should have went to him more in the 2nd half.
V[QUOTE]alanciunas fell below in his season averages, but his team shot 57 percent from beyond the arc, so he shouldn’t feel too bad.
As for Kanter and his position, Jazz coach Quin Snyder applauded parts of the game he excelled in. In the end the effort stopping the Toronto guards, however, did too much damage to salvage a win.
“We took care of the ball and by in large, we took care of the glass,” Synder said. “When we’ve done that in previous games, we’ve had good results. Tonight it was just … sometimes they’re just shooting and you tip your hat.”[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]The Utah Jazz began practice at 11 a.m. Thursday. Nearly four hours later
[QUOTE]Lindsey
[QUOTE]"There
[QUOTE]The biggest concern has been the defense, which has simply disappeared over the last few weeks. On Wednesday, the Raptors scored 123 points, received a career-high 39 points from Kyle Lowry and sprayed in 3-point bombs as if it were a shootaround.[/QUOTE]
It's been a concern since the Sloan era. After all the blame on Ty and all the hype about Snyder turning things around you really got to wonder about the players they have. Rudy gives me hope for someone to build a respectable D around but will he ever be the man with the beloved Favors around?
[QUOTE]That wasn
[QUOTE]Jody Genessy: More Jazz news: Source tells me it's "very possible" Utah will re-acquire Andrei Kirilenko in exchange for Jeremy Evans and Toure' Murry. Twitter @DJJazzyJody[/QUOTE]
Wonder what the story with Murry is? It works without him. NJ wants him? Utah doesn't?
[QUOTE]Jody Genessy: Jazz SG Alec Burks has seen doctors in New York and Cleveland for his left shoulder injury. Surgery is a real possibility, per sources. Twitter @DJJazzyJody
Jody Genessy: Alec Burks has had problems with his left shoulder off and on since preseason. The injury was re-aggravated on that hard foul by Afflalo. Twitter @DJJazzyJody[/QUOTE]
Going to really need AK. Might be why Burks has struggled?
[QUOTE] each team only had 85 possessions, so in fact it’s a much different story: the Jazz put up a 109 ORtg, while Orlando put up a 115 ORtg. Once you adjust for the pace of play, Utah’s offense performed at a top-5 team level, whereas it’s defense performed at a league-worst level.[/QUOTE]
What's new?
[QUOTE]That’s especially true once you consider that there were only 6 fast break points combined for the two teams tonight, so the Magic were very successful at just breaking the Jazz down in half-court sets time and time again.
This is where it gets worrisome for the Jazz. Essentially, the ingredients for a good game defensively were there: they got back in transition defense, like Quin stressed so heavily during preseason and training camp. Orlando was the NBA’s 27th best offensive team coming into tonight’s game. Derrick Favors blocked 5 shots. The Jazz didn’t give the ball up on offense often, with just 12 turnovers, thus preventing easier looks. The Magic were without probably their best player in Nikola Vucevic. And yet, they still struggled hugely.
The stats aren’t pretty for one Enes Kanter, who ended up with a game-low -16 plus/minus. In the 27 minutes Kanter was on the floor, the Jazz had a 145 DRtg, also a game low. On the other hand, when Kanter wasn’t on the floor, the Jazz allowed the Magic just a 74 DRtg. We mentioned on the show yesterday how we felt that maybe too much of the blame was flowing to Enes Kanter for the Jazz’s defensive problems, but the stats from tonight’s game make it difficult to conclude anything but that.[/QUOTE]
It's one game. I've certainly seen improvement from him as the season goes on. Put him in there with Rudy instead of Favors and see what his numbers are.
[QUOTE]Quin Snyder again tied the problems in tonight’s game to a need to compete. As Quin said, “You can talk about positions and habits, but at some point you’ve got to compete, and that’s what we need to find.”
2. But, a 3 hour 45 minute practice didn’t help much.
Given the need for defensive improvement, it would make sense to have a defensive focus in practice. Yesterday, Toronto coach Dwane Casey talked about how, when he first joined the Raptors, that they spent “probably 80%” of practice on defense; after all, they were worst in the league, so they had to work on that first. In the year Casey took over, the Raptors went from 30th to 14th defensively, so he may know something about the subject.[/QUOTE]
Jazz spent at least the first few days of camp on D. :eek:
[QUOTE]I asked Jazz F Steve Novak what the distribution was in the Jazz’s practices:
“There’s, I would say, a very healthy balance. The majority of things we start out with in practice are majority defense and then we transition into offensive stuff, but Coach, he puts a lot of emphasis on both – he has an offensive mind and a defensive mind. I’d say it’s pretty much split down the middle; we feel like a lot of our offense is based on our defense, the best creation of our offense is getting stops, not having to take the ball out of bounds. So I’d say it’s 50-50. Yesterday was definitely more of an offensive day – I’d say we did offense for 3 of the 4 hours.”[/QUOTE]
Making stops is the problem.
[QUOTE]I actually think the offense has been good recently, so it’s somewhat discouraging to me that the Jazz have spent so much time on the offense compared to the defensive side of the ball. Now, much more of defense comes down to effort and reaction: it’s much easier to build out a defensive system compared to an offensive one. I don’t completely believe Casey’s proclamation that they spent fully 80% of their practices on D. It’s also easier to look at offense in heavy-tape sessions; yesterday’s was a lot of film watching. But despite all of those caveats, the Jazz’s focus needs to be defense, just so they can prove they are capable of putting up a decent defensive performance.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. There biggest problem on offense is probably not being able to shoot. Defensively there's not much good happening outside the 3rd quarter where they are one o the best apparently! :confusedshrug:
[QUOTE]3. Derrick Favors has taken a big leap.
Derrick Favors put up a big stat line tonight, scoring 21 points, 13 rebounds, and 5 blocks for the Jazz tonight on 10-17 shooting. It was a nice performance from Derrick, who nevertheless looked absolutely devastated in the locker room after the game. Derrick’s been taking the losses personally, and he really, really cares about the performance of the team overall.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I've noticed with his pouting and walking up court. What is the defensive rating with their stopper in the game?
[QUOTE]Favors has been putting up a tremendous season, putting up a 23 PER for the season, good for 13th in the league. While he’s not going to make the Western Conference All-Star team, just because the Western Conference also features all of Dirk, Duncan, KD, Griffin, Gasol, Cousins, and Anthony Davis, he’s put up a big season thus far.[/QUOTE]
More to do with the Jazz sucking despite having two supposedly all star caliber players.
[QUOTE]Tonight, he also held his counterpart big men to low numbers: Channing Frye and Kyle O’Quinn combined for 24 points, an improvement over previous big men. I think some of this success might be because they lack the length of the big men that Favors has faced recently at the center position.[/QUOTE]
They also aren't expected to put up big numbers are they?
[QUOTE]The clearest example to me is when Indiana center Roy Hibbert went off for his career high against Favors; maybe Derrick’s set up to succeed when the big men he’s playing against are closer to his size?[/QUOTE]
So how is he a great defensive force than?
[QUOTE]It’s a real question whether or not Derrick Favors is best as a PF or a C, and after 20 games, the jury is still out. It’s something to look at moving forward as Favors keeps playing this year.
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That's certainly one of the things they need to figure out because Rudy is the future at the 5. They need to figure out if they are moving forward with Enes or Favors(or Millsap! :banana: ) by the time free agency starts.
[QUOTE]Alec Burks Won't Need Shoulder Surgery
Dec 05, 2014 9:26 PM EST
Alec Burks will not need surgery on his injured left shoulder after meeting with specialists.
Burks has been dealing with an inflamed left shoulder since the preseason, but the consensus of four specialists is that an aggressive rehabilitation program can restore the strength in his shoulder for him to return to the lineup in December.
The Utah Jazz have termed Burks as "out indefinitely."
Burks has met recently with specialists in Cleveland and New York.
Via Adrian Wojnarowski/Yahoo! Sports[/QUOTE]
Conflicting reports. One says he could be out for the year which would suck.
[QUOTE]"Progress is winning on the road. Last year we took these guys to the wire and Trey Burke hit a big one that killed us. This time, we really wanted to close it out," O'Quinn said.[/QUOTE]
Jazz are worse this year so don't get too excited.
[QUOTE]Derrick Favors led the Jazz with 21 points, 13 rebounds and a season-high five blocked shots. Enes Kanter had 16 points and Rodney Hood scored 15, but defense was again the problem for the reeling Jazz.
The Magic shot 50 percent against Utah as the Jazz dropped their sixth straight at home.
The Magic posted their largest lead, 65-48, on O'Quinn's 3-point play early in the third quarter.
The Jazz responded with a 10-0 run that included a hard foul on Burke that sparked the Jazz. O'Quinn hit the Jazz point guard in the head during a drive to the basket and was given a flagrant-1 foul after a video review by the officials. Hood made a 3-pointer to cap the surge and bring Utah within 65-58 midway through the period.[/QUOTE]
Orlando played very physical. Jazz didn't.
[QUOTE]"We've just got to find that juice we need for 48 minutes," said Hood, who set a season-high in points. "We've got to stay with it and not get down because we are losing."[/QUOTE]
Tired of hearing about juice.
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TIP-INS
Magic: Nikola Vucevic, who averages nearly 19 points and 12 rebounds, missed the game due to a back sprain, his third straight DNP. ... The Magic had lost six consecutive and 27 of 32 games when Vucevic doesn't play since the start of 2012-13. ... O'Quinn had a season-high 21 points earlier in the long road trip against Golden State and then was ejected for his flagrant-2 foul on Blake Griffin against the Clippers and assessed a $15,000 fine on Thursday by the NBA.
Jazz: Guard Alec Burks missed his second game because of left shoulder inflammation. ... The Jazz had won seven games in a row against the Magic, dating back to Nov. 10, 2010. ... Steve Novak hit a challenged 3-pointer to draw the Jazz with 95-91 in the final 14 seconds but then missed two free throws two seconds later.
UP NEXT
Orlando: Magic at Sacramento on Saturday night
Utah: Jazz at Sacramento on Monday night
QUOTE OF THE NIGHT
Asked about O'Quinn's two flagrant fouls in two games, Vaughn said, "If I had a daughter, I'd let (O'Quinn) date her. He's a good dude, so I know there's no intent behind it, but he's trying to be aggressive and protect our paint. I don't have a daughter, though, good thing!"
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[QUOTE]Utah coach Quin Snyder said the team misses Burks every time he doesn
[QUOTE]Whether it happens now or next offseason, the 23-year-old Burks definitely needs surgery to repair damage in his shoulder, sources told the Deseret News.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like he's needed it for a long time. He had issues with the shoulder when they drafted him. He missed the combine because of it and I'm guessing maybe dropped in the draft too.
[QUOTE]There are some conflicting reports.
Yahoo! Sports reported that the four specialists who evaluated Burks concluded "that an aggressive rehabilitation program can restore the strength in his shoulder" without immediate surgery and that he could return as quickly as within two weeks.
A league source, however, told the Deseret News it's doubtful Burks will be back that quickly if he opts to forgo having surgery in the near future.
If Burks were to have surgery as soon as early next week, it's possible he could be out for the remainder of the season.[/QUOTE]
They might give Philly a run for their money after all!
[QUOTE]For now, the Jazz are simply saying Burks is "out indefinitely" while they deliberate on a game plan.
"It's tough. ... We've played the majority of the year without Rodney (Hood) and now without Alec," Jazz coach Quin Snyder said before Friday's game against Orlando.
Hood, a rookie who just returned from a 10-game absence due to plantar fasciitis, started again Friday in place of Burks. That move that lowers the average of the Jazz starting unit to under 23 years old.
Guards Ian Clark and Dante Exum will likely see extended minutes in Burks' absence.[/QUOTE]
They haven't though.
[QUOTE]"It puts a lot of pressure on your bench," Snyder said. "We
[QUOTE]Kirilenko returned to his native land of Russia to play during the lockout season of 2011-12, and was named the Euroleague MVP. He then signed with Minnesota, where he played in 2012-13 before opting out of a $10 million option for the 2013-14 season to play for Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov and the Nets.[/QUOTE]
Wonder if he regrets that decision after the Nets season last year and his role now?
[QUOTE]Kirilenko, who considers Salt Lake City to be his second home, has been on a leave of absence from Brooklyn since Nov. 21 because of personal reasons.
The Jazz signed Murry, a Wichita State combo guard who played for the New York Knicks last season, as a free agent in late August.
Murry has dressed but hasn
[QUOTE]The Jazz are now 4-29 when missing any of the following over the last two years: Trey Burke, Alec Burks, Gordon Hayward or Derrick Favors. This team is not built to sustain injuries. It is built to allow the players to develop and this is the downside of building a team for development.[/QUOTE]
It's the positive side of tanking. Little depth and talent. :applause:
[QUOTE]Just look at last night
[QUOTE]Favors finished with 21 points, 13 rebounds and a season-high five blocked shots for the Jazz.
"He protects the rim for us," Snyder said of Favors.[/QUOTE]
:coleman:
[QUOTE]"We've got to find a way to close out games," Favors said. "We need to just go out there and play the next game (Monday against Sacramento). They're a good team and we've got to be ready to play them."
Utah also got 16 points from center Enes Kanter, a career-best 15 from Hood, who was filling in for the injured Alec Burks at shooting guard, and 13 more plus 11 assists from point guard Trey Burke.
"It's tough on us," Burke said. "It may not sound right, but I think we have a positive spirit right now. We've been in most of these games. Out of the (eight) losses, we've been in at least six of them that were one- or two-point games. That still means we lost, but we are in those games."
And Hood, who Snyder complimented for his high energy, effort and hard work, said the Jazz have "just got to find that juice we need for 48 minutes. It's not X's and O's because Coach is putting us in a great position to win every game. But we've just got to figure it out. It's a hard thing to do.
"We've got to stay with it and not get down because we're losing," Hood said. "We are prepared really well and just some shots didn't fall tonight. It's a process."[/QUOTE]
Tired of the juice thing already.
[QUOTE]For Orlando (8-14), coached by former Jazz point guard Jacque Vaughn, Tobias Harris had a game-high 22 points and seven rebounds, and he scored 12 of his points in the game's final 6:06 to help preserve the visitors' victory.
Victor Oladipo added 20 points, Kyle O'Quinn contributed 13, Ben Gordon chipped in with 12 off the bench, and Channing Frye scored 11 more for the Magic.
"(It was) a great effort by Utah," said Vaughn. "It's a tough place to play; it always has been. They were searching for a win and we were also, so it boiled down to us playing together and being extremely tough down the stretch."
O'Quinn, who was called for a flagrant foul on Burke's drive to the basket midway through the third quarter, said his team's willingness to share the ball proved pivotal in the win.
"Everybody can do a little something for this team," he said. "We don't have a guy on this team that is a six- or seven-time All-Star that can do anything. We have to play together, and the best way to do that is starting on the defensive end and sharing the ball."
O'Quinn also said that Oladipo, a second-year guard out of Indiana, was fired up to face Burke, the former Big Ten Player of the Year out of Michigan.
"He is the real Big Ten Player of the Year," O'Quinn said of Oladipo. "We were joking with him that they had a Big Ten battle. He played great. He played with a chip on his shoulder. I guess something with Trey Burke in the past maybe; whatever it was, it worked for us tonight."
EMAIL: [email]rhollis@desnews.com[/email][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]On whether it
[QUOTE]he Jazz were OK offensively, but they had difficulty putting the ball in the hoop at times.
Turning point: As has been the case all season, the first half
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[QUOTE]"They
[QUOTE]Where the Jazz would really miss Burks is on the second unit, where an already thin bench loses even more firepower. Utah
[QUOTE]Tony Jones: Breaking: Jazz guard Alec Burks cleared to return to practice, is listed as questionable for tomorrow at Sacramento Twitter @Tjonessltrib
Tony Jones: Burks participated in practice this morning. He told the tribune that he intends to try and play this week. Twitter @Tjonessltrib
Tony Jones: Burks: I'm thankful that the diagnosis came out positive. It makes you appreciate things. I just want to try and take things day by day. I want to make sure my shoulder is rehabbed Twitter @Tjonessltrib[/QUOTE]
some good news though if it's going to affect his play he might be better off getting the surgery
[QUOTE]Over the weekend, the Jazz received a bit of surprising, and welcome news. Burks has been cleared to practice, and is considered questionable for Monday
[QUOTE]"It
[QUOTE]Corbin recently injured his Achilles tendon and has missed the Kings
[QUOTE]Jason Jones: Michael Malone: "I was happy to see Nik Stauksas become a man in the NBA tonight." Twitter @mr_jasonjones [/QUOTE]
Against the Jazz D! :rolleyes:
[QUOTE]Utah continues to hemorrhage points at an alarming rate, still 29th in the league and barely ahead of a Lakers team that
[QUOTE]I looked at the last three decades of Utah Jazz starting shooting guards (31, if you include this year); and broke down all the data. At the end of the day you want a player who is reliable enough and healthy enough to get in almost every game, and in those games be someone the defense has to worry about. Comparing Alec to the 1984-2015 data set of Jazz shooting guard history some obvious pieces of evidence come to light, and hopefully this analysis can further the discussion we
[QUOTE]2. Scoring:
When your position title is
[QUOTE]Well, while Alec does pass more than the average the issue here is his turn overs as a starter. His assist to turn over ratio is only 1.35 to 1.00, which is below the ratios for the full data set, the post-Hornacek years, and the five seasons directly before him. This hurts in him other ways as well, because a turnover HE creates probably ends up being a transition scoring attempt for the other team. (My guess is a turn over for a guard is either on the perimeter (inside of it) or on a drive or pass; a bigman
[QUOTE]Wow. I talked so much about GO Rating is there even space for BARPS? Alec is above 20, which is above every variable group. The guys who have gone for above 20 are Griffith (x1), Malone (x4), Hornacek (x5), Ronnie B (x1), G-Time (x1) and Alec. The guys who went for 25+ are just Griffith (x1), Malone (x1), Hornacek (x1), and Hayward (x1). Part of this is being on the court a lot, and being a big part of what your team does on the court. The average BARPS / min is 0.66, which removes the big fishes who play a lot of time from looking better than they actually are. In this respect Alec is at 0.65 this season. The five seasons before him the value of BARPS / min was 0.59, so he
[QUOTE]Part of that is shot select and offensive play type (he scores more points than almost anyone else on this list as a product of his one on one game, not on curls, or cuts, or spot ups, or whatever). That doesn
[QUOTE]So Gordon Hayward is good, much better than Alec Burks[/QUOTE]
Not last year.
[QUOTE]-- but Burks isn't that bad when you look at what's happened since Jeff Hornacek retired. He isn't nearly as efficient as Ronnie Brewer, or as competent as Matt Harpring used to be -- but he appears to be better than Wesley Matthews, Raja Bell, and Randy Foye . . . which counts, right? Maybe?
Utah Jazz Roster (2014-2015)
Utah Jazz 2014 2015 GO Rating - December 8 2014
Just to make sure you know, GO Rating isn't boosted or hurt by minutes played, it naturalizes everyone to playing 33.6 mpg. The starters are okay, only Gordon Hayward is killing it. Derrick Favors is very good as a second option, but would be better as a third option. Trey Burke and Enes Kanter are productive enough to be starters, but Alec Burks isn't nearly as good as he should be -- or as good as he was last season (57 GO Rating).[/QUOTE]
I can tell you right now your rating sucks. Trey gives up a lot more at the other end than he gets at his end. Kanter I see continual improvement. Burke is getting worse seemingly.
[QUOTE]But the bench, Ye Gods! Dante Exum and Rodney Hood are real rookies, Joe Ingles is a rookie in name -- but all three of them are not hurting the defense that much so far this season. Trevor Booker and Rudy Gobert aren't dangerous at all by themselves, but at least have some bite.[/QUOTE]
Get off your ****in' computer and watch a game. Rudy is a game changer. Play him! Jazz are a better team with him but obviously the Jazz don't care or Millsap, Carroll, Matthews, etc. would still be around.
[QUOTE]Toure' Murry hasn't played this year. Ian Clark and Steve Novak have, but haven't done much. We know Clark can drive and miss floaters, and Novak can hit open threes --- in the smallest of sample sizes. Also, there is no evidence that Jeremy Evans exists. #XFilesThemeSong
This is fun and easy to do, so if you want more quick stories hit me up.[/QUOTE]
Thought that Sac game was there to take with Boogie out. Ah well.
[QUOTE]Kanter was called for a traveling violation and the Jazz big man responded by spiking the ball to the ground and then throwing his mouthpiece into the crowd.[/QUOTE]
no excuse for that. That's disgusting.
[QUOTE]"It was the intensity, man. You know what I mean?" said Kanter, who scored 13 points and had six rebounds in the 101-92 loss. "We