Quick Recap: Game 13 FINAL SCORE Utah Jazz 108 – Los Angeles Clippers 79

With your first and last statements.

No surprise there.

Can’t hate Clippers, they have Eisley as a coach.

What a lame game. Watching players have fun and seeing the team blow out a high powered potential final 4 in the West team. We should DEF be tanking for some pick so we can do this in 5 years. I’ll e-mail Corbin to start playing rookies more and losing games to make it happen, winning is pretty boring…

That didn’t highlight ANYTHING.

They were just plain beat.

He could be the key to putting games out of reach with big, awesome exclamation jams. Anyway, our depth is so huge, especially this year. I think the fact that we can and will run every active player on the roster in some sort of significant minutes from time to time this year really will give our development a big boost, while allowing us to (for now) remain competitive. I think…gulp…KOC may have been onto something. I mean, when you have chemistry, an obvious mindset change to an effort/defensive focused one (even on the road against a quality opponent Sunday)…why do we need two more lottery picks if this effort and chemistry sustain themselves? I don’t mean to jump the gun or anything (because of the weak schedule so far), but what I’m seeing is a team full of selfless players – what else can we ask for these days? I find it interesting that we turned over almost the entire organization (sans executives and assistants) in two years, and suddenly we play – quite noticeably – much harder and with much more competitive edge. That’s a bigger sign of a good future than any advanced metric will get us, IMO.

Wow, so long. Sorry. Got me on a rant! :)

Last unsolicited observation: Evans with extended minutes seemed to really kind of crunch our momentum/flow when we’d have to play the half-court game (on either end, although his help side blocks were beauties). He’s like AK in that way I think, and maybe that’s an obvious point but it still kind of helps me cope with him being the odd man out in the rotation. Jeremy, to me, seems like he was created for the chaotic times when you’re pushing the tempo like maniacs and draw opponents into speeding up with you (or vice versa) – chaotic possessions and sequences are where Jeremy’s best. In a WCF though, I’m not sure he can be played after a certain point in a playoff setting. Not yet, at least.

Rant over. I love this team. Quickly becoming one of my favorite Jazz squads I’ve watched.

Biggest difference to this early season success compared to last years is that we are gaining leads early and keeping them. Last year in order to gain our early success we would come out with a turn in the first two quarters and go down by 10+ and then have to mount amazing comebacks to get our early success. That alone make me believe we can sustain this success.

been high on him for a while – love his game.

And please someone clarify me that back and forth thing of beauty in the 3rd quarter with about 7 minutes remaining between Jefferson and Miles.. was that really Jefferson and Miles?! I don’t believe it!

Where did this teamwork come from all of a sudden?

Although Jefferson still had some of those “I’m getting triple teamed now is the perfect time for me to shoot” moments he did pass it out a couple of times. But.. Progress.. I’ll take it!

There were also a few defensive breakdowns which led to some easy buckets under the basket after a some nice inside passing by the clips but I can’t be mad with the overall improvement and effort the Jazz have shown.

Ty really deserves so much credit for the way the Jazz have been playing.

I don’t want to Jinx it but…..

CHAMPIONSHIP!

Ok maybe not… but wow I think the Jazz are definitely the most exciting team in the league right now!