The Downbeat - 15 September 2009 - #57 - The Time To Get Writing Edition

by Basketball John on Sep 15, 2009 9:06 AM MDT in Features - Downbeats

1_medium I'm a little late with this, and in Internet time I'm 2 months behind. But we may see 00, Greg Ostertag or our favorite Stanford graduate playing for the Blazers this year. Both of them had a workout.

I have to say that I would love to see Ostertag back with the Jazz... as an analyst. When the Jazz played the Suns last year (or was it two years ago), he was speaking with Bolerjack and Boone and was really quite funny. He'd probably have to be a little more PC that he would like though. He couldn't rip on Violet Palmer.

If the Blazers sign Collins, that would be fantastic. Looks like he also worked out with the Cavs. That would almost guarantee that he's not with the Jazz this year. I say almost because I'm sure Sloan would pressure O'Connor to trade Boozer to acquire him.

2_medium So the Greek team suffered their first loss of the Euro Tourney. You all know why by now, right? The KOOF was held out of action because of a stomach flu.

Now before you lose your faith in the KOOF, I have it on good word that it wasn't the stomach flu. He was purposely infected with the swine flu so that he could produce the vaccine.

He was down for a couple of hours while his body was processing the H1N1 DNA and churning out the vaccine which should be available at the end of the month.

Sometimes the survival of thousands of people is more important that basketball. Watch him come back with a vengeance today.

8_medium Kyle Korver will end you in Dodge Ball, (once again, I won't link to the blog because I'm sure it has not other value to you and they don't want to traffic on a personal blog), talking about the Jazz team,

It was absolutely hilarious watching them play because they definitely wanted to win! They were even vicious! Kyle knocked a poor man down and he needed the medics to come and look at him! Of course Kyle was totally mortified and was the first one over to help him!

4_medium Jerry has said many times that Stockton was the perfect player. We could be coached, gave everything he had in practice, etc. I got to thinking that I really couldn't think of a time while watching Stockton where I thought, "I can't believe he just did that" or "What are you doing?"

I'm sure time has dimmed the memory of watching him play as I'm sure he made some mistakes, but I don't remember agonizing over stuff.

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I still can't believe my Raiders lost, but basketball season is just around the corner.

1. That is the true measuring stick of Jazz fans’ distaste for Carlos Boozer: would you trade Carlos for Jarron Collins? I am guessing Moni says absolutely yes.

2. Koufos hasn’t played yet today either. And Spanoulis has played really well during the tourny. I wonder why he couldn’t land with an NBA team.

8. So apparently Korver might not be ready for training camp because of his healing wrist that had surgery. How does he explain to Sloan that he’s not ready for training camp, but he could huck dodgeballs around for charity. I also think that Deron might have lasting back injuries from the tournament. Maybe they should switch it over to a tecmo bowl nintendo tournament.

4. Also, you might want to check into Ronald Dupree. It is looking like more and more that he is going to be the replacement for Matt Harpring. I like the move. Dupree can’t shoot, but he looks like a tough and solid defender. I know it seems like he won’t even play, so it doesn’t matter, but with only 13 guys, he could get a couple minutes here and there.

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

by clarkpojo on Sep 15, 2009 11:57 AM MDT reply actions

so you have now emerged from hiding in the bathroom?

by sherbs on Sep 15, 2009 5:36 PM MDT up reply actions

ah clarky

you know me so well.

by moni on Sep 15, 2009 6:10 PM MDT up reply actions

4. i don't know a single thing about ronald dupree

but i really liked reading about his defensive mentality. lord knows we need someone like that on our team.

by moni on Sep 15, 2009 6:22 PM MDT up reply actions

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How high of a draft pick would we have to include with Boozer?

by Frank5 on Sep 16, 2009 12:00 AM MDT up reply actions

1. I never thought I’d live to see this day, but… defensively speaking… I kind of miss Ostertag. And in the words of Bill Simmons, I will now light myself on fire.

2. I just laughed at that whole thing. Well played, sir.

5. Those videos were awesome. It’s funny to see how seriously some professional athletes take anything competitive. There’s one point where Deron yells at Fes for getting in the way as he gets hit, and the look on his face clearly shows how much he wants to win and hates to lose, even at dodge ball.

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

by Shums on Sep 15, 2009 2:44 PM MDT reply actions

1. i am now wondering if tag comes back and all he does is rebound and block shots, would he actually have better games than fes? that’s how far fes has fallen this summer, what with leaving his team after the ukrainian NT coach had a problem with his leaving games to go smoke and all.

2. if anyone ever put together a “best of bbj” compilation, that would be right there at the top.

4. it’s like utongankid said…you felt calm with him running the team. there was no facepalming when stock was out there.

by moni on Sep 15, 2009 6:21 PM MDT reply actions