The Downbeat - 11 December 2009 - #120 - The Let's Get Together, Ya, Ya, Ya, Edition

by Basketball John on Dec 11, 2009 10:02 AM MST in The Downbeat

1_medium It's almost time for "It's not lame, it the 10 days of Christmas." I know you've been waiting with ba(i)ted breath. They'll run M-F for the next two weeks with the final one on Christmas day.

2_medium I hope Fess is well enough to go against LA tomorrow night. We need his length. I just don't know why he's not getting more PT. Sloan has favored a Boozer and Millsap lineup when Memo is out.

Fess is having a good year. He's shooting almost 60%, has a PER of 14.2 (15 is an average NBA player), his foul rate is down from previous years, and he has an offensive rating of 118 which ranks him up towards the top of the list for centers.

8_medium I don't know if or what question proceeded this statement from Boozer, so I don't know if he was asked about playing with Howard or what. But this is too close to the radio stunts he was playing over the summer,

Now, Utah Jazz star forward Carlos Boozer has followed suit, saying he’d love to play alongside of Howard, his closest friend in the NBA.

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``You got that big fella down there on defense because he covers up a lot of mistakes for you when he’s as active as he is,’’ said Boozer, who was in the Magic locker room after Thursday’s game to chat with Howard. ``Everybody in the league would like to be on the same team as Superman.’’

I'll give him a pass on this one unless he just brought it up out of the blue. Can't imagine even he would this time.

4_medium Can the ESA mock the Laker fans that show up tomorrow night somehow? Like have someone take a photo of a lot of them when they come in the doors and then put them on the jumbo tron in some embarrassing fashion? If a couple of Laker buddies come to the game, pay off one of them to do a WWF-type betrayal and put on a Jazz jersey on his friend? Can we put a tariff on Laker fans that buy tickets? Maybe put a disclaimer on the ticket that reads "I swear my eternal soul to the Utah Jazz"?

We need to do something. I do not like the Laker fans there and I want them to be as uncomfortable as possible. I wish we could get some Spectrum-like chants going at the ESA.

5_medium So it's probably time to to get serious about having an SLC Dunk night out at a Jazz game. We've discussed it in the past a bit. But aren't we long overdue for a face to face meeting for an internet friendship? No need to send me a pic though.

I'd like to do something in addition to just getting a group together for a game. I'd like to do a little charity work with it. I was thinking along the lines of everyone buying at least one extra ticket to donate to some organization for kids or something along those lines. Any other ideas would be appreciated.

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if I had tix

I guarantee I would make the Laker fans that made the mistake of going to this game regret even being born…Im not kidding.

I had to go through the torture of watching the last game with my friends friends who are…you guessed it: Laker fans, and I almost ended up in jail when all was said and done, I swear I will smack a Laker bandwagoner!! these fools didnt even know you Farmar was but they got Laker flags hanging off their SUV…lol

by hustla801 on Dec 11, 2009 11:20 AM MST reply actions

LOL at this keyboard gangsta

If you went to the game you wouldn’t do anyhting but sit there sulking watching the Lakers embarass your team once again. LOL at you

by tabernacle on Dec 12, 2009 10:23 AM MST up reply actions 1 recs

no

lol at you, your name is tabernacle you wouldnt know how to identify a gangster if I smacked you up side your head, and the Jazz didnt get embarassed they embarassed LA and KB and all the purple and gold wearing Laker fans all the way out of the arena…lol at you homie…

by hustla801 on Dec 13, 2009 1:00 AM MST up reply actions

Alas, we are too far seperated by distance and $'s.

Though it would be lots of fun and I will lend any long distance support I can.

SLC DUNK! #1 Jazz site in the world!

by RRR on Dec 11, 2009 2:59 PM MST reply actions

Happy to attend if someone buys me some airline tickets from Down Under...

Possibly the southernmost Jazz fan in the world!

by TazzJazzFan on Dec 11, 2009 3:08 PM MST up reply actions

I'll Buy You a Ticket to SLC

If you buy me one to Australia. I’d love to go back.

by kris247 on Dec 11, 2009 3:10 PM MST up reply actions

um...dwight howard is boozer's closest friend in the nba?

really? but what about dwade?

by moni on Dec 11, 2009 5:34 PM MST reply actions

so i was checking out 3qc's game thread

and found this discussion they were having on dwill that was going on towards the end of the game:

…Deron Williams is probably the 3rd best PG in the league,…
     Who is better than Deron Williams?
          Only Chris Paul I think.
                head to head Deron gives CP3 the business.
                     Doesn’t make him the better player because he’s not. Chris Paul is world’s better than Deron
          Steve Nash and Chris Paul.
                All things being equal Its a push with CP3 and I take him over Nash.
                     There’s nothing Wiliams does better than Paul, except block shots…Williams is a perennial All-Star talent; Paul is already in the Hall of Fame, as far as I’m concerned.
                           Push with CP3? Williams isn’t in Paul’s league.

by moni on Dec 11, 2009 11:56 PM MST reply actions

I like Boozer's explanation

he says Howard plays so much D in the lane… it’s as if BOOZER WOULDN’T HAVE TO! Who wouldn’t want to play with a guy who says “I’ll play all the D, you just shoot a lot.”

I'll make it coach.

by MTN on Dec 12, 2009 1:16 PM MST reply actions

Boozer was referring to when we trade Memo for Howard!

Dec 20th,

You heard it here first!! :)

SLC Dunk #1 Jazz Site in the world!

by RRR on Dec 12, 2009 3:54 PM MST up reply actions

ha ha. had the same thought. no, I really did.

by Juan B on Dec 13, 2009 12:05 AM MST via mobile up reply actions

I am also limited in what I can do since I live in Durham, NC, but I would be all for some charitable thing.

I would do what I could from here. And if I visit Utah early next year, which I plan to do, I would love to get a group together and catch the game if anyone could then.

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

by clarkpojo on Dec 13, 2009 2:21 PM MST reply actions