Unfortunately, the WNBA gets more publicity than the Utah Jazz. I’ve only seen them play twice this year. The first game was against the Spurs, which they won, despite Tim Duncan’s whiny face that makes him look like he’s been constipated for three weeks. I’ve never known why Mom has always said that the Spurs is a team “you could root for if you had to.” Try living here. Three things make me dislike them: Bruce Bowen, Manu Ginobli’s acting, and Eva Longoria, who is now officially more annoying than Bill Walton. The second game was against the Lakers in which Kobe decided to actaully start playing. Needless to say, the Jazz got blown out more than Carlos Boozer’s chest hair on a date night.
As you can imagine, it’s been especially frustrating due to the fact that they stand at 16-5 and first in the NBA and even get a highlight or two on ESPN and I can’t watch nay of it. Granted, the season is only a fourth of the way through but still. The last time they started this good, I was sitting in the MTC listening on an illegal radio smuggled in by the same guys who visited a roommate with sister missionary name tags. The Jazz were taking it to the bulls. If not for Karl Malone spending time filming Rockwell 2 instead of practicing, they may have pulled it off. Now, every once in a while I’ll follow the Gamecenter on sportsline.com but that is it.
I posted a comment last year that said to the effect that Williams would be a bust. Maybe he read what I wrote and it has been next to the clock in his weight room for the past year, thus motivating him to his current status as one of the “to-go guys” on the team. I like him and think he could be really good—just needs some post up moves for mismatch situations and he could be an all star in two more years. Again, this is coming from someone who has only seen the team twice and a few highlights.
I am a little worried about Kirilenko. He wanted the max, got a franchise-player contract, and now looks like Dolph Lungren at the end of the fight in Rocky IV running up and down the court taking shots. Lucky for the Jazz, he should put up all star numbers again in 2011. Coincidentally, this is when his contract expires.
Where did Boozer come from? His contract doesn’t expire till ’09 and he is playing like Teen Wolf, without the chest ha….uhh, well you get the idea. I always knew he had it. He reminds me of Shane Battier with good post moves with that short jump hook.
Mehment Okur looks like he just woke up 10 minutes before the game after drinking too much egg nog the night before. He can rebound, hit a three, and pull off the runner fairly easily for a big man. He looks like a cross between Vlade Divac and the guy on my bus who has to wipe his drool every five minutes.
The bench players look like great role players who know when to step up. I’m not too familiar with any of them except Rafael Araujo who is competing with Shawn Bradley for overhyped BYU big man of the NBA. I think his best bet is to become a Mark Madsen: cheer wildly from the sidelines, set hard picks, enter a dance competition and look as awkward as possible. For all I know, he may be doing this already—have yet to see him play.
Anyway, I’m excited about the Jazz this year and for Jerry Sloan who could finally win the Coach of the Year Award.
I guess that’s it.
As you can imagine, it’s been especially frustrating due to the fact that they stand at 16-5 and first in the NBA and even get a highlight or two on ESPN and I can’t watch nay of it. Granted, the season is only a fourth of the way through but still. The last time they started this good, I was sitting in the MTC listening on an illegal radio smuggled in by the same guys who visited a roommate with sister missionary name tags. The Jazz were taking it to the bulls. If not for Karl Malone spending time filming Rockwell 2 instead of practicing, they may have pulled it off. Now, every once in a while I’ll follow the Gamecenter on sportsline.com but that is it.
I posted a comment last year that said to the effect that Williams would be a bust. Maybe he read what I wrote and it has been next to the clock in his weight room for the past year, thus motivating him to his current status as one of the “to-go guys” on the team. I like him and think he could be really good—just needs some post up moves for mismatch situations and he could be an all star in two more years. Again, this is coming from someone who has only seen the team twice and a few highlights.
I am a little worried about Kirilenko. He wanted the max, got a franchise-player contract, and now looks like Dolph Lungren at the end of the fight in Rocky IV running up and down the court taking shots. Lucky for the Jazz, he should put up all star numbers again in 2011. Coincidentally, this is when his contract expires.
Where did Boozer come from? His contract doesn’t expire till ’09 and he is playing like Teen Wolf, without the chest ha….uhh, well you get the idea. I always knew he had it. He reminds me of Shane Battier with good post moves with that short jump hook.
Mehment Okur looks like he just woke up 10 minutes before the game after drinking too much egg nog the night before. He can rebound, hit a three, and pull off the runner fairly easily for a big man. He looks like a cross between Vlade Divac and the guy on my bus who has to wipe his drool every five minutes.
The bench players look like great role players who know when to step up. I’m not too familiar with any of them except Rafael Araujo who is competing with Shawn Bradley for overhyped BYU big man of the NBA. I think his best bet is to become a Mark Madsen: cheer wildly from the sidelines, set hard picks, enter a dance competition and look as awkward as possible. For all I know, he may be doing this already—have yet to see him play.
Anyway, I’m excited about the Jazz this year and for Jerry Sloan who could finally win the Coach of the Year Award.
I guess that’s it.
2 comments:
First of all, I do not recall saying the words,"the Spurs are a team you can root for." But I concur with your fondness for Eva Longoria. She makes me desperate just watching her. But I was glad that Jerry Sloan got the milepost. Now there is a guy who needs to lighten up. He has that "deer in the headlights" look. But the rookie, Paul Milsap is pretty awesome to watch. Dad has the Jazz Suite for the bank on Dec. 26. We play the Clippers. That is going to be fun. Where do you think Allen Iverson is going to end up?
What?! Jazz suite?! Um, mom, dad. Would you like to meet Brenna again? We'll stop by, I promise (in exchange for those tickets).
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