"You Gotta Love It Baby" Official Jazz thread

[MarkGrace]

AK has hit 11 of 18 from 3 so far.

[BGRTHNUMEGO]

AK has hit 11 of 18 from 3 so far.

He looks pretty solid from the corner. Just sayin'.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

He looks pretty solid from the corner. Just sayin'.

I liked the bank shot at Orlando.

[MarkGrace]

Do we avoid the letdown tonight at Charlotte?

[Sizzle]

Do we avoid the letdown tonight at Charlotte?

I don't think so. Four games in five nights on the road is pretty tough.

[MarkGrace]

[MartyFunkhouser]

I think it was a huge mistake to let both matthews and krover walk. We needed at least one ofthem.

Seeing how Matthews has played with the Blazers, not sure how he improves your SG situation. I'm happy to give you back his 16.7% 3 point shooting.

[old_gregg]

Wow. That was awesome.

[LiveCoug]

The jazz are insane right now. That has to be the most incredible four game road trip in NBA history.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

This team is developing some moxie. Now let's see if they can avoid the standard 5-6 losses to the worst teams in the league during the season.

[Jacob]

Seeing how Matthews has played with the Blazers, not sure how he improves your SG situation. I'm happy to give you back his 16.7% 3 point shooting.

You've been complaining about him quite a bit. But you've pretty much got what you saw last year. I'm sure his FG% will bounce up a little. I wasn't heart broken by the loss of Matthews. I really liked him at the end of last year for the effort he gave. But he never proved that he was going to be worth the money Portland was offering. That is in contrast to Millsap who had already proven his worth when Portland offered the $.

[BGRTHNUMEGO]

From Locke:

AK Factor: Andrei Kirilenko has been insane defensively. Andy Larsen did a nice piece at utahjazz 360 breaking down AK’s defense on the best players on the other teams. In Miami, AK kept LeBron on the perimeter and had him a jump shooter. LeBron only got to the rim 7 times that night shooting 1 of 8 from outside 10 feet. In Orlando, he matched up on Vince Carter at times, then shut down Joe Johnson in Atlanta and Stephen Jackson in Charlotte.

AK Part 2: According to 1320, K-Fan stats intern Matt Bennion in the Atlanta game, during the final 6 minutes when Sloan switched AK to Joe Johnson the Hawks scored 6 points and Johnson didn’t get a shot off. 16 of Johnson 23 points came when guarded by Bell, 5 came in transition and 2 on CJ Miles. Nothing against AK.

AK is at 57% on his 3's so far this year and 80% of his FTs (80% from the line would tie his career best)

Good thing Raja's defense is making up for his abysmal shooting.

[Blueintheface]

My brother thought D-Will said "How do my balls taste?" after that teardrop in Charlotte. He was obviously yelling at a certain fan or fans but I could have sworn he said something more benign like "How do you like that?" or something to that effect. Any lip readers here?

At any rate, I thought it was funny and I do like to see the moxy from D-Will and the rest of this team.

Beat a defenseless Thunder team tonight and leave no doubt.

[Blueintheface]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/50679442-87/game-jazz-bell-start.html.csp

Veteran Jazz guard Raja Bell’s availability will be a game-time decision Monday night...Bell, who has not missed any of the Jazz’s 10 games so far, is bothered by a missing groin.

Emphasis added in order to tell the whole truth.

[Donuthole]

Speaking of players past their prime, how much should we expect the Jazz to offer Nazr Mohammed this offseason?