Los Angeles Clippers (0-2) @ Utah Jazz (0-1)

[Racer X]

Going forward, there needs to be a Ronnie Brewer interview "definitely-meter" to count how many times he uses that word. I counted 4 tonight.

Bonus points for "definitely ummmmmmm".

[schneiderjazz]

Nice to see Fes and Kosta doing well. Jazz had some nice offensive possessions and Sap dominated. Our defense, however, was pathetic. We're gonna get crushed when we face any of the top teams playing this kind of defense.

[CAE15]

Man I love prices Hustle, maynor looked like a rook for sure. Koufos and fes looked damn good also, nice to see all of our bigmen contributing. Millsap was awful defensively in the 1st half. 2nd half really made up for it though. Boozer bounced back and didnt even play that awful of defense. Kaman was stroking it and even good defense he was still putting our bigs in their place. Dont know what exactly happened at halftime but the team came out and played much better defense. sure the clips had that run but the hustle of millsap and that awesome 3 point play ignited us. Lets go get the rockets then hopefully a road win. I really want to see this team when we have the shooters back. I know its the clippers but man its great that basketball is back. I may be more optimistic because my titans are blowing **** right now. but yeah different story there.

[HolyToledo]

Pretty much what I expected. The Jazz have better players and are more oganized than the clippers, thus they won at home. Defense was below average by the Jazz and terrible by the clippers. Boozer and Millsap played better. Jazz ran more which is the way they need to play, forget sloan's high school style offense. Trading Boozer for a SG or SF is needed maybe a 3 way trade where Boozer goes back to Cleveland and third team takes some Cleveland youngster, Illgustus, and picks and Jazz get their SF/SG is a decent possibility since cleveland maybe desperat enough to pay Boozer's contract.

Jazz best player to date clearly DWILL--2nd best I go with AK-47

[UTJazzFan_Echo1]

AK and D-Will are the reasons Jazz win tonight. Without the start D-Will provided and without the defense and ability to run the offense with Deron on the bench of AK there is no way we win this game. Millsap had a monster 4th and Brewer came up with some pretty solid plays.

Biggest surprise was Fes who actually looked like he belonged out there. Going to be interesting to see how he plays throughout the year.

Deron was much more vocal tonight and actually got upset with some guys a few times which is good to see.

Boozer had a very soft offensive night again, only tried to dunk it once and he got rejected at the rim. He needs to start trying to dunk everything again. Boozer looked much better on defense, pulled down solid boards and made some really good passes.

Maynor made some dumb mistakes during his time, Price looked decent enough with an awesome put back dunk. Kosta looked good but still needs time to develop and learn.

Good scrappy win, D-Will, AK, Millsap, Boozer, Brewer, Fes are the reasons we win in that order.

[OC Jazzfan]

Hmm, you guys must've been watching a different AK than I was.

To me it looked more like a late third/fourth quarter meltdown by the Clips. It was very much like watching the Jazz play on the road. They kept it close then led some then folded like a house of cards.

Milsap was awesome in the fourth. I thought Fesenko played very well. If he can keep playing like this and gain confidence (and gain Sloan's confidence) while Memo is hurt it could be a good thing in the long run. He moves well for a huge guy. He just need to work on his post defense a little bit, he gets faked off his feet and into a foul way too easily. I'm impressed though, I had pretty much written him off.

The Clips have plenty of talent. I know there are a few Clips that I'd gladly have on the Jazz. When they get Griffin back, they're going to be pretty good. (Coach aside).

[@ndrew]

Yeah, I didn't watch the whole game, but what I saw is a bunch of stupid TO's from AK side...

[Soul Patch]

Boxscore doesn't show AK doing a lot.

[cjs55]

Yeah, I didn't watch the whole game, but what I saw is a bunch of stupid TO's from AK side...

Didn't watch the whole game either but I wouldn't complain about 7 assists to 2 turnovers from your SF. Very solid from AK in that department.

What is not good is 1-7 shooting and only 1 combined block and steal from him. Ugly.

Maynor at -10 +/- for the game in 5 minutes is just wtf bad

[schneiderjazz]

AK had a bad game overall, but he was pretty important when the Jazz made their run with Deron on the bench. I agree that if he weren't there running the offense, things might have gotten complicated.

[UTJazzFan_Echo1]

AK had a bad offensive night but other than that he played masterfully. Sure he didn't get any blocks/steals but he was very solid on the defensive end of the floor.