Jazz vs. Pacers

[erudite23]

This game was so damn hard to watch, and I'm just glad it's over. Does anyone else get a deep, cold rage in the pit of their belly when we play a mediocre team that just happens to be on fire that night?

The Pacers are a better team than their record, but they aren't a good offensive team. They get up a lot of shots, but they don't convert at a particularly high percentage. Tonight they were just getting every bounce and everything went their way (offensively, obviously).

In addition, our pick and roll defense would have done shame to a pickup rec-center game. Memo was just as bad defensively tonight as he was good on defense. Kosta was painful to watch, I admit, but he busted his ass every second on defense, unlike Memo who seemed disinterested or out of touch about 70% of the time.

I'm glad we got the win and got this game out of the way. Why is it that we seem to struggle with middle-tier EC teams? It blows my **** ing mind.

[erudite23]

One last point.

Our bench got murdered tonight. This is usually where the injuries show up the worst. Look at the boxscore.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=290112026

The +/- for the starters vs. the bench is just a joke. Only its really not funny in any way.

[jazzfan1971]

I was pretty disappointed in Kufos the last two games.

[Reckless]

Indiana fought hard, they weren't going to go away

GOod thing for us we shot 34 of 37 from Free throw line(91.9%!) in comparison they went 16-19

Andrei struggled but his free throw stroke has looked good this year and he was really active defensively

[The Sheik]

Memo is the first Jazz center to score 40+ pts in a game.

[The Sheik]

For the first time since they moved from New Orleans, the Jazz will not have a player appear in all 82 games. It might be the best stat for summing up the Jazz's injury woes this season. The 29-season streak ended when C.J. Miles was lost to a sprained right ankle.

[El Turco]

memo ftmfw.

[Hikari]

Kufos has hit the rookie wall.

[carrottop12]

I love that Koufos rebounds the ball as well as he does.

Coming out of college people including David Locke were knocking him for being a poor rebounder which is obviously not the case now. That is a good sign.

[JStockLivesOn]

Koufos was bad last night, but I don't think he's hit the rookie wall. I think he just had one terrible game.

[erudite23]

Koufos was bad last night, but I don't think he's hit the rookie wall. I think he just had one terrible game.

Definitely.

The rookie wall usually only happens to guys who are getting a lot of burn, and even then it almost always happens after the half way point.

He just had a bad game, really. Still very up and down because of the mental errors.

[ColdBlue]

When did Granger get this good?