The Downbeat - 23 November 2009 - #106 - The Real Edition

by Basketball John on Nov 23, 2009 6:54 AM MST in The Downbeat

1_medium This has nothing to do with basketball, but a huge congrats to Real Salt Lake for winning the MLS Cup. What an amazing story to have had a disappointing season, squeaking into the playoffs with about a half million things falling into place, and then proceeding to tear it up.

The icing on the cake is sticking it to the LA Galaxy which features David Beckham and Landon Donovan. Anybody that can win a championship and do it against an LA team is fine by me. And you know, having a championship in Utah is nice.

Just a great story. Look forward to the Disney adaptation coming summer 2011.

If you want to read more about it from someone that actually knows about soccer/football, here's RSL SoapBox.

2_medium As the comments stated, who knew that Greg Miller was so tall. He's got to be about 6' 5" doesn't he?

8_medium A couple of big games this week against division teams. Not log overlook the Bulls, but we have OKC tomorrow night with Portland coming in on Saturday. The Thunder are just a half game behind the Jazz right now and are sitting at .500.

The bigger game though will be against Portland on Saturday. They're 8-2 over their last 10 games and are two games up on the Jazz. It will be a good early measuring stick for both teams.

4_medium After having won just 1 game before last week, the Knicks caught fire and won two straight last week giving them 3 wins on the season. Then, they almost beat the Celtics last night. Thanks Boston.

They could easily lose their next 7 though as they have 5 of those on the road and have PHX and Orlando at home.

Their next game that they might win is against NJ, a team that still hasn't won a game and doesn't look like they will either for at least another couple weeks.

5_medium Maybe in addition to VoteDeron.com, I should have picked up VoteAK.com? 14.5 a game, 1.2 blocks, 3 assists and nearly 5 boards a game. His 3P% is almost at a career high. Making the All-star team will be a big stretch but it could be argued that he's the MVP of the team so far. He has saved the team on a number of occasions and has played just about every position so far.

If he continues to come off the bench, which he should, he could win 6th man of the year.

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1- Amazing! The Jazz aren’t the first pro team to bring a championship to Utah. (Okay, fine… there was an ABA team, but still.) Shocked?

5- Getting him in will be really hard because he’s not even on the ballot if I’m correct.

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by UtesFan89 on Nov 23, 2009 7:02 AM MST reply actions

Yeah, he won't get in on the fan vote for sure

But maybe via the coaches.

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by Basketball John on Nov 23, 2009 8:13 AM MST up reply actions

Even then

If Deron and Booze (yes, it could happen) make it, the coaches would be less likely to vote for another Jazz man.

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by Basketball John on Nov 23, 2009 8:14 AM MST up reply actions

that's assuming

we still have boozer on OUR roster

by P_Dizzle on Nov 23, 2009 1:13 PM MST up reply actions

Remember the Stars?

The Jazz wouldn’t have been the first pro team to bring a championship to Utah either. Remember the Utah Stars? They brought the ABA championship to Utah a few decades back (probably before most of you were born).

by Taivo on Nov 23, 2009 11:11 AM MST reply actions

One of the old Utah Stars players coached my Junior Jazz team. If I remember correctly he was on that championship team.

by kris247 on Nov 25, 2009 3:25 PM MST up reply actions

DB

1. Didn’t even know they won until about 12:15 today. And I like soccer. Sad.

5. How ‘bout votebooze.com? If only to increase his trade value. Of course, even if he made some noise in the voting, it probably wouldn’t make an impact before the trade deadline … sigh.

by Juan B on Nov 23, 2009 2:55 PM MST via mobile reply actions

I'm sure Locke has already put that website together.

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by clarkpojo on Nov 23, 2009 3:16 PM MST up reply actions

well done clark

by moni on Nov 23, 2009 5:01 PM MST up reply actions

Here it is

http://davidlocke.com/

by Bobby Joness on Nov 23, 2009 10:08 PM MST up reply actions

REAL SALT LAKE

Pretty sure I’m happy enough about this to not complain about the Jazz for, like, a week or so.

Uh, do you think you could draw me like a ninja?

by Shums on Nov 23, 2009 4:53 PM MST reply actions

2. i didn’t even notice that until you pointed it out.

5. AK is, in my opinion, far and away the biggest contributor to winning on the jazz.

by moni on Nov 23, 2009 5:03 PM MST reply actions

1. Very cool. Very cool. Soccer is so different. I suppose ending a championship on free kicks is like trading free throws at the end of a game…

2. He’s wearing boots with heels. Really, he’s 5’10".

3. Hopefully I’ll get to watch one.

4. NY does not have a schlub coach. I wonder what his half-time speeches are like these days. I wonder how long he stays and if that depends on his patience or management’s patience. Smart move NOT to get Iverson.

5. Or Maybe Okur-on-the-bench is our MVP? Doesn’t his absence coincide with our winning games suddenly? It doesn’t seem like it ought to be that way, but maybe having Fes out there – a little less offensively needy – is part of the formula.

I'll make it coach.

by MTN on Nov 23, 2009 5:58 PM MST reply actions