If you are ever in North Carolina or the surrounding area, may I suggest you drop by any Cook-Out BBQ drive-thru? They are open at all hours and their shakes are delicious and cheap. That is my first observation in what will become many observations about upcoming Jazz games. Tonight, we make observations on the Utah Jazz @ Chicago Bulls.
“I don’t need some damn trophy to make me feel good about myself.”
Jazz fans know the drill this time of year. Sportswriters across the nation have already started passing out season awards and you’ll only see more and more articles calling Lebron James the unrivaled MVP, or Dwight Howard the Defensive Player of the Year. You won’t find many, if any writers, who don’t think Jamal Crawford is the Sixth Man of the Year. And then there are the Coach of the Year candidates: Scotty Brooks and Lionel Hollins. One of those two guys is going to get the award. Jerry Sloan will not.
If you’re a Jazz fan, chances are that you saw the Rockets game on Saturday night. So you definitely noticed that Deron Williams had it going on in the first quarter, scoring 20 points and dishing out 6 assists in less than 12 minutes of play. I will be honest. I was nervous after the first quarter, because despite D-Will’s huge outburst, the Jazz were only up by 4 after one quarter and I have seen things like this before. When Deron Williams does lots of scoring, it doesn’t always translate into Jazz wins.
Gotta love not funny cartoons.
I’m on the Fesenko bandwagon. Actually I have been on it for a year or so now. I am not driving the bandwagon, but I am a comfortable passenger. The guy helps the Jazz win. Simple. But to avoid sounding like just any other Jazz blogger, I am not going to talk about his huge size, or how the Jazz need a big, tall, traditional center to compete. I believe in those thoughts to a degree, but after his play the last couple of games, the “Big Goof” is probably the hot trending topic. I want to be original.
“I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere, I loved you.” -Deathcab for Cutie
I woke up this morning to some devastating news. Kevin Martin had been traded to the Houston Rockets. It was like asking your dream date, Stacy Jacobs, to prom and finding out that she had just been asked the day before by Tommy Robinson. And Tommy Robinson is sort of a jerk because he got you sent to detention in the ninth grade by blaming you for drawing a mean picture of the substitute teacher that he really drew. It doesn’t just suck that you won’t get to take Stacy to the prom, but even worse, you are missing the chance at spending special time with her “in her prime.” There will be no getting lucky at the Prom. There won’t be any “going steady” afterward. No cutest couple photo in the yearbook.
“Halfway” through the season, I decided it was time to hand out some fantasy awards to the Jazz players: Read the rest of this entry >>
I wonder what Kevin O’ Connor’s phone bill is for the month of February.
It’s some 50 odd hours until the NBA trade deadline comes and goes and looking at several NBA rumor boards, it is going to be a frenzied couple of days. I expect at least 2 or 3 more blockbuster trades and I also expect the Jazz to make no more trades this week, although they will be rumored in several. But while all the trade hubbub goes on, so does the season and the Jazz team is going to need to buckle down and get serious about showing that they have really improved from last season.
Now Look what you’ve started, Mark.
Espn is reporting that the Mavericks and Wizards are closing in on a deal that will send Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood, and former Jazzman DeShawn Stevenson to Dallas for Josh Howard and Drew Gooden. This trade is a big deal for the Jazz and the rest of the Western Conference.
If you look throughout the Jazz blogosphere, you can see a lot of talk about the impending trade deadline. It’s an exciting time. The Jazz are most likely not going to be players at all in the trade frenzy, but if you were to poll every Jazz fan in the world, I can guarantee you that the most voted player that Jazz fans would like to see traded would be CJ Miles. And I think about 70% of the votes would go for him. There are varying reasons for this, but they mostly boil down to the fact that he is a bit of a chucker right now, and he is taking minutes from Kyle Korver, who is a fan favorite. Read the rest of this entry >>
The happenings of the Utah Jazz.
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