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The Downbeat - 24 November 2009 - #107 - The Sparkly Edition

1_medium I know Fess will never be compared to Nowitski, but expand your shot a little.

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2_medium Here's the chart for the Jazz so far this season.  Nothing surprising from beyond the arc.  Those cold spots are usually the hardest to hit.  What is surprising is that I would assume your percentages should be going up the closer you get to the basket.

Yet in the three spots around the basket, the percentages are way down.  I don't know why that is for sure.  Is that because that's where floaters and other similar-type shots are taken from?  For the Jazz I figured it was because they get blocked so much.

I took a look at other teams and almost all of them are the same.  There's a few exceptions, but for the most part, everyone struggles in those zones.  Is that the least efficient shot in basketball?

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8_medium Kyle Korver and CJ could be returning as early as next week?  What do you think, will it be worth the wait?

Did we as fans overreact?  I guess that's part of our job.  I'm glad the panic has died down yet I think most fans believe that the Jazz aren't above going into another slide.

4_medium You've seen the Korver/Kutcher comparisons, but what about Korver/Carrot Top?  Have to say it's pretty close and scary.  KK has the perfect costume for next Halloween.

5_medium  While you're enjoying the game tonight, I'll be withing spitting distance of the Jazz/Thunder - well, if I could spit from the Megaplex at the Gateway.  You'll be watching Deron and Durantula, I'll be watching sparkly vampires.

However, I will be at the Jazz/Bulls game on Thanksgiving night.  Pretty good trade-off.

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I don’t know about over-reacting. I still view it as “this team isn’t built to win it all”. CJ + Korver don’t change that, at least I don’t think so. We’ll have to see after they return.

By the way, I know 8>3 and all, but isn’t not using #3 an insult to E3?

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by UtesFan89 on Nov 24, 2009 9:43 AM MST reply actions  

Durantula, I like it.

1- I look at it as Fes using great restraint and sticking within his limits. Good for him.

2- You are right about shots getting blocked. They aren’t layups and dunk and yet right in those gray areas, is where you are likely to have your shot contested, so blocks and just being right in the thick of the defense makes it a difficult shot.

8- I think having them should help, but I am not banking the franchise’s success on their returns. The Jazz are shooting 3 less 3 pointers than last year and shooting it 2% worse. So if CJ and Kyle come back it would theoretically move us from 3.7 threes made a game to 5 a game. Those 4 extra points a game would be a big deal long term.

4- I’ve said from day one that he looks more like Carrot Top…which is really scary for Kyle Korver, because Carrot Top is one of the scariest looking human beings on planet earth. A girl I graduated from high school with, used to date him. I can’t explain her actions.

5- You’re aren’t fooling anyone, BBJ. We can sense how excited you are to see New Moon.

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

by clarkpojo on Nov 24, 2009 11:08 AM MST reply actions  

I like the Jazz's offense in general

but where they lack is that they don’t shoot enough corner three’s …. statistically the most efficient shot in basketball. Those are the two zones where we have the least amount of shots… BIG problem in my opinion. Also why we tend to have a low overall thee percentage. We don’t shoot the easy ones. Contrast that to the Spurs who have made it a priority for the last decade to open up that shot AND take it away from their opponent. That is the one point where I have been most frustrated with Sloan – we are only a few adjustments away from having an amazing offense and a much better D…. but he seems a little to stubborn to change.

by Frank5 on Nov 24, 2009 11:33 AM MST reply actions  

5. two days ago, i had this conversation with a friend:

him: so have you seen the twilight movie?
me: no.
him: i just rented it on dvd.
me: are you a girl?
him: no, my students said it was good.
me: the only thing i know about is is when it came out a lot of the posters on a jazz blog were complaining that they were missing games because their wives made them go watch it.

so bbj…going of your own free will? haha.

by moni on Nov 24, 2009 12:02 PM MST reply actions  

4. Korver=Carrot Top

BBJ — please post on tomorrow’s downbeat the beatdown you get from Danielle. Anxiously awaiting her reaction.
(Uncanny resemblance, though — it’s as if they were separated at birth)

by Juan B on Nov 24, 2009 4:31 PM MST reply actions  

#5

I’ll be in the arena with you on Thanksgiving night – then the following night watching sparkling vampires.

by Mic Spittin on Nov 24, 2009 5:39 PM MST reply actions  

#4

Ok, honestly. Who posted this? Are they smoking crack? This is like slanderous. I think you need to write KK a letter of apology.

by DaniellelovesKK on Nov 24, 2009 8:13 PM MST reply actions  

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