The Downbeat - 14 October 2009 - #78 - The Scrimmage People Edition

by Basketball John on Oct 14, 2009 6:05 AM MDT in The Downbeat

1_medium The Jazz season doesn't start without the rookie dance-off. Though he's not a rookie, the KOOF is back to defend his title. Thanks to Jazzgirl08 for the video. Check out her channel for interviews from the event.

Rookie + Koufus Dance Off 2009 (via jazzgirl08)

2_medium The scrimmage was a rousing success from all accounts. Lots of player and fan interaction and some high-flying dunks. The team is still talking about defense though and improving in that regard. If anything, they're at least still talking about it so maybe by virtue of some kind of audible osmosis, it will start sinking in.

8_medium Too bad the Fess didn't participate this year in the dance-off, but he may have an official Facebook account. You remember when he proclaimed he has a girlfriend now. It looks to be a legit account as he's got a pic of him and his girlfriend with mashk and cj miles listed as friends. Don't know if he'll accept friend requests though like DWill and CJ. Now if we can just get him on twitter for real. No offense @the_best_fess.

via facebook

4_medium The Jazz are giving away free tickets to tomorrow's game against the Blazers. Two ways you can do it. First, drop off at least a bag of food to the Utah food bank and get a free ticket. Second, follow the official Jazz Twitter at http://twitter.com/utah_jazz or at least visit that page to find out how to win.

5_medium A last call to do Jazz player previews. I may need to put up a separate post in case people aren't reading the Downbeat or maybe not reading down to the bottom. If you would like to help do Jazz player previews, please email me, tweet me, or leave a comment with who you'd like to do.

If we don't get enough, then you'll have to suffer through me doing them all and Seinfeld references in each of them.

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I think we have the bar set too high for us, with what the best fes gave us on twitter — the only way the real fes could compare is if he really did tweet dunk.

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Oct 14, 2009 6:07 AM MDT reply actions

Milsap's block on Boozer was awesome...

by iLoveBooks100per on Oct 14, 2009 11:08 AM MDT reply actions

Just got back from Smith's

In Utah county. They have a HUGE stack of really crappy seats. :)

by chamont on Oct 14, 2009 4:14 PM MDT via mobile reply actions

Correct link for KSL video...

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=8303171

Does anybody know the stats for the game?

by iLoveBooks100per on Oct 14, 2009 4:23 PM MDT reply actions

I would love to do some player previews.

If no one else wants to do them, then I will do as many as you need me to do. I’ll take anyone you need me to do.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.

by clarkpojo on Oct 14, 2009 8:29 PM MDT reply actions

Thanks

I have one person so far. I’m going to put up a post dedicated to it today and see if we get anyone else. Aren’t you doing previews on your site already? I don’t want to take anything away from that.

SLCDunk.com, The Utah Jazz on SBNation

by Basketball John on Oct 15, 2009 6:10 AM MDT up reply actions

Hey. I am glad to still write for SLCdunk anytime you want me to.

I would even write a completely different preview for whoever it was, apart from my blog. If you don’t mind it, I will write different things for both sites.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.

by clarkpojo on Oct 15, 2009 12:42 PM MDT up reply actions