This is hilarious! I wonder if there is a team in the league whose fanbase doesn't complain about the head coach. These guys are complaining about Sloan!? That guy has done more with less throughout his career than possibly any other coach in the game. The Jazz probably would have lost their fickle fan-base years ago and moved to Nashville or something like that if it hadn't been for Sloan and his picks and rolls. Fans will be fans I guess...
Believe me you will hate them by the end of the series. You only hate Okur on their team? By the end you will hate Collins and especially Derek Fisher who is the epitome of a Jazz player. The reason their fans seem to be respecting our club so much is because we are one of the hottest teams in the league right now why they are playing their worst. We would be pretty down on our team and have no hope if they blew it the way the Jazz did.
Mavs fans were depressed after game 1, saying it was all over. fans that havent had their teams win a title dont have swagger like we do however, the jazz series will be a very difficult one, its not decided by a long shot. jazz will not be playing in playoffslike theyve been playing this month.
"NO" That's because most fans of other teams, like most Rockets fans, are HUMANOIDS. As for all the bearhugs, flopping & moving picks go, 2 Rocket retaliations come to mind. A. Nacbar's block on a Malone's drive to the basket & B. when Barkley was with us, Stockton flopped while trying to take a charge against Barkley. Charles continued thru with the layup & walked all over John Boy and the got right in Malone's chest(there was a 6" height difference) when Malone tried to retaliate.
"Some of you younger fans may not remember this but the 1995 team may have been the Jazz's most realistic shot a winning the championship. We went 60-22 that year, when Michael Jordan was still out of the League. The Jazz first round opponents? Drum roll..........the Houston Rockets. We had a promising young swing player named Bryon Russell who was a fan favorite. Sloan still favored the veteran David Beniot. During the crucial game five the savy veteran missed wide open shot after wide open shot after wide open shot while Russell sat on the Bench. Game, Series, Championship, Houston. Eventually Sloan realized his mistake, ditched Beniot, started Russell and the Jazz began their best run in history, but by then the window had passed. The despite their great teams the Jazz would lose agonizenly to Jordan's Bulls in two epic finals series." The above is quite a ridiculous statement. The Jazz caught the Rockets when the Rockets were not playing well and still lost. The Rockets didn't peak until late in the Suns series.That Jazz team IMO would not had got through Phx (who the Rockets escaped from), and if they got through Phx would not had beat SA (best record in the league, but the only player who could have destroyed Robinson, did in fact, do that). The Jazz's best chance was when they had the best record and the other Western powers of the Rockets, Suns, Spurs and Sonics had faded. They couldn't deliver on their home court--nothing more you can ask.
And the Jazz fans critizing Sloan are idiots. Who would have thought a team with no superstars would finish ahead of teams with Melo/AI (one 1 team), Kobe, KG, Brand, etc. The Jazz did remarkable with their amount of talent and injuries this year. They will probably be dissappointed with loss in 5 or 6 games too, when they should be proud because they have neither a Tmac nor Yao caliber player.
I agree... from the tone of their posts, a lot of them are looking towards next season already... at least they're realists. Maybe we'll let them win a game or two.
Very well put. You forgot to add Antoine Carr to the list, when he smashed his elbow on Barkley, when he was having an AMAZING playoff series, single handly owning the Jazz. I won't say it was on purpose, but I wont say it wasn't either...
Thanks What could you do in their shoes really. They are sunk, homecourt was going to be their last wall to give them a shot at beating the team with both superstars in this series. I am really shocked a Jazz fan had the insight and cojones to state this on a Jazz board however "...people will laugh at everyone who puts Stockton in the same sentence with Steve Nash in his prime." Nash really is like the best of Stockton and Hornacek rolled into one. Clearly more dominant when on his game, just won't have as long of career and the cumulative stats as Stockton.
I thought the guy who questioned why Jazz fans are so hung up about HCA if they don't think they can win in Houston.
Boozer is NO QUESTION a superstar in his own rights. His numbers are ridiculous. He hasn't had the ability to stay on the court or people would already know that. They have plenty of talent, people keep saying they don't, but their talent could have been utilized alot better I think. AK did not play up to his potential, I am not sure if it was coach or player but that wouldve made them a top 2 seed I honestly believe. They have plenty of young superstars. Williams, Boozer, AK (can be if injuries dont kill him), Okur. And nice roll players: Harpring, Fisher to name a couple. They have the talent to have done well this year, I can't blame fans for blaming Sloan, his team played out fo their minds only if you look at them through what preseason veiws were, but if you look at them through how much talent they actually do have (no one expected boozer healthy/dominating, williams maturing so fast). They may be a little worse than their talent.
If you watched Stockton he was just as talented as nash. Nash is VERY VERY GOOD, but he is on an offensive minded, high scoring team. Stockton was on a slow down 1/2 court team and still managed to put up all those records. I hate the Jazz as much as the next guy, but you ahve to give stockton some props for what he has done.
all in all those fans are either not confident or realistic...and either way, it works for us. but lets be humble and win the series without any freaking scares
