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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    [QUOTE]With veteran big man Andris Biedrins sidelined by an ankle injury, the rookie Gobert has taken advantage of his opportunity to play as the third big in coach Ty Corbin

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    [QUOTE]Brandon Rush sat out Saturday

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    Through that 0-6 start, two of Utah's top young players, Alec Burks and Derrick Favors, were hovering right around 41 percent from the field.
    Might be able to live with that from Burks but for Favors it's unacceptable.

    Gordon Hayward, the guy who's supposed to be their best player, was barely over 43 percent
    I'll take that considering he should be the main focus of the other team and he's in a role that is not ideal for him as the go to guy.

    , and a couple of NBA veterans, Richard Jefferson and John Lucas III, were shooting less than 30 percent.

    Jamaal Tinsley, never really known for his shooting, was barely over 21 percent from the field, including a woeful 1-of-14 from 3-point range. Thankfully, he didn't take a shot on Saturday.

    In fact, only one Jazz player, center Enes Kanter, had managed to make more than half of his shots thus far this season.

    The "can't shoot straight" malady may have even affected Utah's free-throwing efficiency, as the Jazz came into Saturday's game at less than 69 percent from the foul line. And their 3-point shooting is absolutely awful, too.

    Not only can the Jazz not shoot straight, they apparently are having a lot of trouble passing the ball and dribbling it straight, too.

    They were averaging almost 20 turnovers per game heading into Saturday, but only committed 14 against the Raptors. What's more, they made 20-of-24 free throws, so maybe there's some light at the end of that long, dark tunnel ahead for a frustrated team that has now fallen to 0-7.

    OK, we knew the Jazz youth movement was going to struggle this season, and probably struggle mightily. Most preseason predictions had them winning anywhere from 20 to 30 games, but I was feeling optimistic and picked 'em to win 30, figuring they'd win around half of their 41 home games and a fourth of their 41 road games.

    Based on what we've seen so far, though, maybe that was faulty logic. And far too optimistic.
    Yeah I don't know how anyone could have expected much from them.

    The Jazz performance has been decent at times, but absolutely abysmal on other occasions during this young season. After narrow losses at home against Oklahoma City and on the road against Phoenix, the Jazz built a double-digit halftime lead in their next home game against Houston, only to get clobbered and outscored by 27 points after intermission.

    Saturday's loss to Toronto mercifully ended an 0-4 road trip which also included losses to Brooklyn, Boston and Chicago. But now they return to Utah for their next three games, and certainly there must be a win waiting for them out there somewhere, isn't there?

    Maybe Monday against the Denver Nuggets?
    Got a shot you'd think!

    Perhaps it'll come Wednesday against those pesky Pelicans from New Orleans? Or Friday when the San Antonio Spurs come to town? (OK, probably not Friday).


    Keep in mind that it's a long season, and that the Jazz have played five of their first seven games on the road.

    They will get better, no doubt, provided they don't get so discouraged that they simply give up. That would make a bad situation even worse.

    Some folks out there are blaming Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin. But keep in mind that Corbin's simply playing the difficult hand he was dealt.

    And besides that, he's not the guy throwing up bricks or throwing the ball away for this Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.
    Most people seem to be blaming him as usual. This one is on the front office.


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    “Defensively,” he added, “we weren’t there.”
    This was supposed to be where they were better. Some of that is obviously because the offense is a joke which isn't surprising.

    The end result tied Friday’s 97-73 loss at United Center for the largest margin of defeat this season: 24.

    This was the fourth game in a row in which the Jazz have trailed by 20 points or more. Corbin appreciated the “fight” at the end of the game to at least whack 14 points off of the Raptors’ biggest lead.

    Utah has now lost eight straight, dating back to the final game of the 2012-13 season. The Jazz haven’t tasted victory this year in 14 consecutive games, including preseason.

    The fact they hadn’t been beaten in Toronto since 2004 exemplifies how this season’s going.

    “We’re searching for the answer. We’ve got to keep working, trying to get through this rough patch. We’re struggling,” Hayward said. “You just try to not make the same mistakes. We’ve got to find out something. We’re finding out about ourselves right now, and hopefully we can push our way through it.”

    This shellacking came on the tail end of a brutal beginning to the season in terms of the schedule. In 11 nights, the Jazz played seven games in six cities, four time zones and two countries.

    The Jazz continue to play shorthanded as well, with Trey Burke (finger), Brandon Rush (knee rehab), Jeremy Evans (rotator cuff) and Andris Biedrins (ankle) still out indefinitely.

    “We’re a little beat up,” Corbin said. “But you know what, they’re young. They’ll get through it. We’ll take (Sunday) and reflect on some things.”

    The team flew back from Canada after the game and will take Sunday off — to rest and reflect — before getting at it again at home against Denver (1-4).

    “It’s over,” Kanter said of another road loss, “and now we are going to go home where we have three games and we’ve now got to think about them.”

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    [QUOTE]Utah

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    [QUOTE]Before Saturday

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    [QUOTE]Shooting guard Alec Burks has been the team's most consistent player off the bench this season, but he came in as the team's first backup point guard ahead of John Lucas III instead of in his usual position Saturday.

    Corbin wanted to use Burks' 6-foot-6 size against the smaller Kyle Lowry, the Raptors' 6-foot starter, in hopes of infusing some offensive punch into Utah's struggling offense.

    Burks later played alongside Gordon Hayward, with Marvin Williams, Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors.

    "We

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    One coach who could have cause to be nervous is Utah

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    who the heck are you quoting, Xiao?

    Anyway, I was gonna post why the heck Rush has only played 10 mins, but I guess the answer is a few posts above. Needs to practice. We talking bout practice? Cmon man.

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Cheesesteak
    Anyway, I was gonna post why the heck Rush has only played 10 mins, but I guess the answer is a few posts above. Needs to practice. We talking bout practice? Cmon man.
    He didn't look very good when he was out there. They need him. Hopefully he can get it together soon.

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    Default Re: Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

    [QUOTE]The losses have piled up early for the Jazz

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    [QUOTE]The Jazz are the league

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    Jamaal Tinsley: Things will turn around, I trust in my teammates and we trust each other. Game Night Twitter @jatinsley

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    [QUOTE]The question naturally becomes whether coach Tyrone Corbin can last even until his contract expires at the end of the season.

    Corbin definitely deserves an opportunity to coach Trey Burke, who broke a finger during the preseason. But to say Corbin is exempt from firing just because the Jazz think of themselves as different from other pro sports franchises would be ridiculous. All disclaimers aside, there

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    Aaron Falk: Jazz PG Trey Burke has been cleared to begin solo basketball drills, the team says. He'll get another look from the doc Nov. 25.

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