Ridiculous enough that it needed its' own post

by AllThatJazzBasketball on Apr 29, 2010 7:34 PM MDT

What you say!! - from the "All your base are belong to us" meme.

No doubt you've read some of the stuff that the media is pushing on the Denver-Utah series, right? Playing the Nuggets off as victims, suggesting that the refs are hard on them, and even going so far as to write about exactly what plays hurt the Jazz the most -- with the hopes that the Nuggets run these plays in games. Let's not forget that these aren't Denver newspapers I'm talking about, but ESPN and supposedly neutral NBA News blogs.

Only in David Stern's NBA could a team that:

is coached by the Rodney Dangerfield of coaches (Jerry Sloan) - a guy who is always overlooked by the flash in the pan, young coach on some random team
is headlined by a guy (Deron Williams) who has been overlooked all his life that he was not even regarded as the best player on his high school team
is supported by a starter (Carlos Boozer) who is called a mercenary all year long and is playing his best basketball when it counts
had to trade away a starter (Ronnie Brewer), their veteran leader (Matt Harpring) and promising 1st round draft pick (Eric Maynor) for financial reasons (like this team was run by a poor farmer who owed money to greedy bankers)
had to deal with crazy injuries all season, including the loss of their best all-around defender for (essentially) the last month of the action (Andrei Kirilenko) and now having to face one of the best scorers in the NBA in the 1st round (Carmelo Anthony) without him
had their starting center (Mehmet Okur) play through an injury only to injure himself worse in the first half of Game 1 - now out of action for the entire summer (while a huge international tournament is going to be held in his country, and he's that team's biggest star - and now can't play)
was forced into starting an undrafted rookie (Wes Matthews)
was forced into running a skeleton crew for the NBA playoffs including prime time minutes for young guys who were either never producing consistently (C.J. Miles) or never got a chance to produce (Kyrylo Fesenko)
and is the G-D UNDERDOG in this playoff series by not having home court (despite running up a 3-1 lead)

. . . be spinned into the "BAD GUYS" in this story.

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I disagree

I don’t think the Jazz are the bad guys, the referees are.

I was at game 2. The fouls were ridiculous – especially in the 2nd half. Both ways.

I feel bad for the Jazz mostly, and do agree that they have played outstandingly and haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve because of this crap.

by Missing Lynx on Apr 29, 2010 7:46 PM MDT reply actions

and

the Nuggets should have won game 2

but, if they did, Jazz win game 5 methinks

by Missing Lynx on Apr 29, 2010 7:47 PM MDT reply actions

pretty funny

as much as I enjoy indulging in my persecution complex (comes standard with being a Jazz fan), I think we’ve actually been getting quite a lot of love from the national media lately. I don’t know that we’re seen as the bad guys, exactly. And if we are, it’s probably irrational feelings from fans of other teams from the Stockton-Malone era.

Still… I’m not exactly happy about John Hollinger and Kevin Arnovitz spelling out the Jazz’s weaknesses for the whole world (and more importantly, Adrian Dantley) to see. Hollinger usually sticks up for the Jazz, too, since his stats often put us near the top of the league.

Pretty sure it’s not a conspiracy to paint us as bad guys.

Even though everyone totally does hate us. (Persecution complex still works.)

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by Shums on Apr 29, 2010 8:04 PM MDT reply actions

Yeah, Deron is the new darling

It’s very cool now to say that Deron is the best pg in the league…but it’s cool because it’s still controversial, which means most people still don’t believe it. But it won’t be long before the numbers make it undeniable.

I'll make it coach.

by MTN on Apr 29, 2010 8:29 PM MDT up reply actions

glad people got that this was

40% funny, and only 60% jazz fan persecution complex.

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Apr 29, 2010 8:40 PM MDT up reply actions

Quit yer whinin!

Paint us as Radiers, I could care less. After Friday, hopefully, they will not even have an Enver to talk about.

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by RRR on Apr 29, 2010 8:06 PM MDT reply actions

Heh wait until they face the Lakers next round

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by Uh on Apr 29, 2010 8:55 PM MDT reply actions

@UH game 6 is still left

another lopsided aker fan… we’ll see which team goes to round 2…

by slcball on Apr 29, 2010 9:39 PM MDT up reply actions

what he is saying is that the media is completely pro-lakers

and actually give the Nuggets the same bad rap as you guys get, so if you think it is bad now…just wait until you get the golden children of the NBA…of course I think the Nuggets only really play when their backs are solidly against the wall

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by DjSarcazm on Apr 30, 2010 11:08 AM MDT up reply actions

sorry but Kev Arnovitz sez: deron not an underdog

if that’s the case, where’s the Deron’s people of Denver ads?

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/15589/are-the-jazz-really-underdogs

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Apr 29, 2010 11:40 PM MDT reply actions

Jordan ad, which is Nike, which also has Deron in a commercial so...

Maybe he has a legitimate gripe with his sponsor! You guys should petition, maybe you can get one on air by game 7. Ahh who am I kidding the Nuggs will totally quit all over the place in game 6.

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by DjSarcazm on Apr 30, 2010 11:16 AM MDT up reply actions

Come on, now...

…Enough with this “We don’t get no respect!” stuff. Utah’s winning the series that nearly every analyst predicted they would before the playoffs started.

by neumdaddy on Apr 30, 2010 12:42 AM MDT reply actions

I also forgot to mention that . . .

Utah is a team made up of (mostly) 2nd rounders and undrafted guys — including several NBA DL callups going up against a team made of mostly 1st round draft picks.

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Apr 30, 2010 12:03 PM MDT reply actions

Anyone who watched the regular season series

Would have to say that Utah was the underdog. They totally drank our milkshake

by tyrantking on Apr 30, 2010 2:04 PM MDT via mobile reply actions

+1000 for there will be blood reference

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Apr 30, 2010 2:11 PM MDT up reply actions