Atlanta Hawks (22-14) vs Utah Jazz (24-11)

[HammerDunk]

Pathetic effort. I can't remember seeing such a bad defensive effort this season. So many uncontested shots. I know bad games happen, but the effort wasn't there at all, and that is frustrating. They should have been way more intense than they were and outplayed the Hawks since they played last night. I'm pretty disappointed in this loss.

Deron deserves a lot of the blame, but I am really getting sick of Al and his weak push shots that aren't getting close at all. I'm losing patience with that. I have noticed that Deron can often have a bad shooting game and we still win because he can still score by getting to the line. Al has practically no ability to get to the foul line in games where he isn't making shots, and it seems like the Jazz lose those ones more often.

CJ is just mind numbing for me to watch. As I have been saying, he looks extremely expendable, especially with how AK and Gordo are playing. No reason to get into it, but he was really bad.

It's too bad that a really good game from AK and couldn't even keep it within 20. Shows how much Sap means to this team. Evans was getting manhandled by Smith, but still managed to score and snag a nice amount of rebounds for the amount of time he was in. He has massive potential. Crazy credit to KOC for snagging him.

It's hard to be down on this loss because Sap was out, but that big of a loss is ridiculous at home, with rest, against a team that played the night before.

[ATL DirtyBird]

Is it just me or the Hawks and Jazz quite similar in the way that neither will win a championship but both will win a lot of regular season games...?

[Millsap24]

Is it just me or the Hawks and Jazz quite similar in the way that neither will win a championship but both will win a lot of regular season games...?

Yup. At best, we're both 2nd round teams.

[red4hf]

This was the worst game I saw all year...... I've never seen the Jazz, particulalry the guards, give such a poor effort on the defensive end......

[BarneyGumble]

Wow, what a bad game by the Jazz. The only worse game I've watched all season is the one @ New Orleans. Giving up open shot after open shot is not the way to get it done at all....