"You Gotta Love It Baby" Official Jazz thread

[BGRTHNUMEGO]

Breaking News: GHay to start for AK tonight. Let's hope that's the spark this team needs. Gotta beat Philly...

AK had shown some good energy this trip. He was definitely the right one to swap out.

[Sizzle]

AK had shown some good energy this trip. He was definitely the right one to swap out.

There's got to be an attitude change somewhere.

At least it's a start. Plus AK knows his only real shot outside of Utah next year is in New Jersey. Of course he's gonna do what he can to impress there.

[MarkGrace]

How is taking roger bell out of the starting lineup not the obvious move here?

[Sizzle]

How is taking roger bell out of the starting lineup not the obvious move here?

Because Roger is not European. Sloan needs the Eurotrash to all play together at the same time. (PS, I love me some Memo Eurotrash).

[Jacob]

How is taking roger bell out of the starting lineup not the obvious move here?

You start 1 of the worst shooting guards in the league...why not start 2 of them at the same time?

[Jacob]

Raja Bell plays the entire 1st quarter and goes 1 for 3 with zero assists, rebounds, steals, blocks

Somehow Hayward got credit for 3 assists, 2 turnovers and a steal and zero across the rest of the box score and was virtually uninvolved on the offense and couldn't guard anybody on D.

[Sizzle]

Is it just me or has CJ gone back to jump shooting CJ instead of attack the hoop CJ. Jump shooting CJ shoots much better after he has attacked the hoop. And to me the Jazz seem to go as CJ goes this year.

[Sizzle]

Jazz freaking suck. Badly. I don't want to quit on this team, but they're making it hard not to.

[Jacob]

Just looking at some stats I'm not quite sure how to interpret: but based on this:

http://www.82games.com/1011/1011UTA.HTM
Bell and Hayward rank the lowest on the Jazz in Simple Rating, are the bottom 3 (with Al) in net +/-, and are also at the bottom in net production. Now, Hayward probably hasn't played enough to make too much of anything except to see that he's not yet much of an NBA player.

So, just for kicks, I looked at the first 10 teams in alphabetical order to see if I could come up with a team that started one of their worst 2 players based on those 82games stats. I found none. I also found none that had a starter in the bottom 5, except for a team riddled by injuries and Ben Wallace.

What could the decision to start Hayward alongside Bell possible have been based on? Benching Bell is the too obvious to miss move, but benching one of Al or Paul is the next best move. The2 undersized boys are just not getting it done together. Jefferson's numbers on that page are really, really bad.

[Jacob]

Jazz freaking suck. Badly. I don't want to quit on this team, but they're making it hard not to.

If the coach has given up, we might as well too. How many teams do you think they can beat with that starting lineup?

[MarkGrace]

Gonna take yet another 4th quarter miracle to pull out a win.

[MarkGrace]

37% from the floor against the Philadelphia 76ers. Dark times.

[Sizzle]

Switching back from the Jazz and Coug game. Two things I've noticed:

1) BYU basketball is infinitely more enjoyable to watch right now with one caveat (which will be point 2). The Cougs control the tempo, get up and down the floor and at most times can have four (and sometimes five) guys on the floor who can shoot the rock. They also have a guy who is literally a threat to score every time from anywhere on the offensive end of the floor. I don't think the Jazz have that.

2) The only downside is the lack of HD on the Mtn. The picture is horrible. Is this REALLY how we used to watch all sports? Because it seems worse that what I remember growing up. I will be very glad to be done with the High School quality network.

[MarkGrace]

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to rock bottom.

[Sizzle]

Fill in the blank:

The Jazz haven't played this shitty since_________.