The Downbeat - 19 August - The Boy Boy Edition

by Basketball John on Aug 19, 2009 10:08 AM MDT

According to Deron's updates, former Jazzman Robert Whaley's son died after being hit by a car. Whaley wasn't with the Jazz long and obivously we don't know him personally. But when something happens to a memeber of the Jazz family, you instantly feel like you do. I don't know if you can ever find real peace when something like that happens, I just hope he and his family can find comfort and get through this. Just tragic stuff.

Kind of hard to follow after that. Maybe it should have been its own post.

Let's say that the KOOF decides to play as just a mere mortal this year. What are your expectations for him (provided he gets PT)?

Who retires first, Jerry Sloan or Brett Favre?

What's your prediction for the first month of the season (Oct-Nov)? We have 17 games, 7 on the road and 10 at home (did the math for you there). A lot of easier ones at home with the exceptions of SA and Portland. I'll give us 9-1 at home. The road schedule is brutal (when isn't it for the Jazz?). I'm going to give us 1-6 on the road. So that's a 10-7 record. Man, I hope we break .500 on the road this year.

With Sloan and Stockton being inducted into the HOF soon, here's one of my favorite quotes from Jerry. This was at Stockton's retirement:

"It’s unfortunate we couldn’t keep statistics on screens. He wasn’t screening no midgets."

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1. rip little whaley

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Aug 19, 2009 10:34 AM MDT reply actions

2. kosta should be getting enough PT to avg. 5 rpg and 1 bpg while shooting a solid percentage from the field and the line this season . . . will jerry give him that PT though?

3. sloan

4. haven’t really gone over the other rosters enough to make a prediction yet

5. screens and deflections need to be tracked . . . even if that means i’ll have to rework all my stats, lol

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Aug 19, 2009 10:36 AM MDT reply actions

The DB

1. Deron is the man…he is the “Utah Jazz”. He cares for everyone.

2. I would love to see something like a 9-10pts 6-7reb 1-2blk a game as main backup. I think he could eventually supplant Okur as our starting Center…not this year but when Okur is gone.

8. I would say John Wall will retire from basketball before these two guys.

4. If Boozer is still on board he will be playing very hard to earn everyones respect back…I say the Jazz come out strong….14-3.

5. I think the hustle play should be counted. Like when you crashed the board for a strong rebound from outside the paint. When you dive to save a ball going out of bounds. When you run down a guy from behind to knock the ball away from his easy layup…This stat would be very important to me if I was a GM.

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by Matt_Grbac on Aug 19, 2009 10:39 AM MDT reply actions