Game 38: Utah Jazz (19-18) @ Atlanta Hawks (20-14)

[FJS]

VS

Friday 11th, January, 2012
Atlanta, Georgia
5:00 MWT
Philips Arena





- Jefferson - Millsap - Carroll - Foye - Tinsley




- Pachulia - Horford - Smith - Korver - Teague



KEY PLAYERS FROM THE BENCH


- Favors - Hayward - Watson - Burks - Kanter



- Williams - Jenkins - Harris - Scott - Johnson

[The59Sound]

Have a gut feeling that Teague will eat us alive, but feel pretty good otherwise. Will be interesting watching Korver and Foye trade uncontested threes.

[FJS]

TEAMS LEADERS:



A. Jefferson
PPG: 17.0 RPG: 9.8


Mo Williams INJURIED
APG: 6.7



P. Millsap
SPG: 1.2


D. Favors
BPG:1.6



J. Smith
PPG: 16.9 BPG: 2.4


A. Horford
RPG: 9.6


J. Teague
APG:6.5 SPG: 1.6

[FJS]

Hawks are 11-6 at home, and they have lost 4 in a row. Total record of 20-14.
Jazz are 8-14 on the road, with 2 wins in a row. Total record of 19-18.

[red4hf]

Hawks are in a slump........ Goo chance for us to steal this one.......

How I wish we still had Korver on our team........

[FJS]

I think Korver would have help us in 2010-11 and 11-12, but know he is not needed.
Foye, Mo and Hayward are shooting pretty well from 3, and even Marvin Williams can knock the 3 pretty well.

[edfmx86]

Have a gut feeling that Teague will eat us alive, but feel pretty good otherwise. Will be interesting watching Korver and Foye trade uncontested threes.

I have Teague on my fantasy team and he had a good game last night, that usually means he wont have another good game for another two weeks or so. Harris will be the one to eat us alive on this night.

[red4hf]

I think Korver would have help us in 2010-11 and 11-12, but know he is not needed.
Foye, Mo and Hayward are shooting pretty well from 3, and even Marvin Williams can knock the 3 pretty well.

I'd rather have Korver than either Williams or Carroll........

[Dry Fly]

I think Korver would have help us in 2010-11 and 11-12, but know he is not needed.
Foye, Mo and Hayward are shooting pretty well from 3, and even Marvin Williams can knock the 3 pretty well.

I'd rather have Korver than either Williams or Carroll........

As a 3 pt shooter... yeah. All around game though? I probably go with Marvin.

[FJS]

I think Korver would have help us in 2010-11 and 11-12, but know he is not needed.
Foye, Mo and Hayward are shooting pretty well from 3, and even Marvin Williams can knock the 3 pretty well.

I'd rather have Korver than either Williams or Carroll........

If we don't have play time for all our players... with Korver still less. Korver shoots pretty well, but Marvin and Carroll have more intensity and good deffense.

[Jazz_Man_86]

tought road game. We haven't win in Atlanta for a long time.

[FJS]

tought road game. We haven't win in Atlanta for a long time.

We won in 2010-11
http://www.basketball-reference.com/box ... 20ATL.html

Then, last year we lost in a 4OT game.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/box ... 50ATL.html

[RyanStorm]

I think Korver would have help us in 2010-11 and 11-12, but know he is not needed.
Foye, Mo and Hayward are shooting pretty well from 3, and even Marvin Williams can knock the 3 pretty well.

I'd rather have Korver than either Williams or Carroll........

With Foye on starter, I wouldn't mind Korver on the bench.....

Of this 6 games to comeback, the two toughest are ATL and Heat(the other four bottom of east)....both of which are in huge slumps for being "great" teams. Atlanta will hopefully have a few guys sit out, a couple of them including Harris have been in injuries, some are recovering, two bench are out, and Harris is right back, against Cavs he was nothing, Ronnie Price did better against Miami than him vs Cavs.

Miami's performance last night was BS, if they would have won, we would be 1gb Portland, now were 2gb both Por and Den. Were getting wins, but these other teams aren't losing.

[RyanStorm]

Can you believe that we finally get a chance to catch up to Den and Por, and there in a 3 and 4 game win streak, with tough games. I was sure Portland was going to lose their next 3-4.

Miami(W), Golden State, OKC, Denver, Cavs, Mavs, Bucks, Wizards, Pacers, Clippers, Clippers, Dallas, then us B2B.

Seriously, if were going to the playoffs, those two back to back's versus Portland are huge. Plus our next month is much nicer than this, we need to strike while the iron is hot!

[Jazz_Man_86]

tought road game. We haven't win in Atlanta for a long time.

We won in 2010-11
http://www.basketball-reference.com/box ... 20ATL.html

Then, last year we lost in a 4OT game.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/box ... 50ATL.html

true, last win on my memory was when Memo scored big in the 4th quater it as 07 or 08 season

or here is it http://www.basketball-reference.com/box ... 00ATL.html

[RyanStorm]

ATL lost to Cavs and Detroit, and more importantly Minn. This all happening in the last week or so. Cavs and Pistosn are like the Eastern Kings or Mavs. Hornets are doing better than Cavs, and they face less west.

We beat Minn, and I have watched the last couple games that ATL played, and I am not impressed. If Jazz come out the way they have so far these last couple games, I see this as a big win, with likely OT. This team matches up very well, but things are different.

I was hoping for Marvin to come out and shoot a season high like Foye did vs LAC, but his knee is out.

Either way, this will be a great game, and I am only concerned if ATL is fierious to get out the slump, however, I hope they are like Dal or LAL and can't get a break.

[RyanStorm]

Actually, I forgot DAL made a miraculous win versus Kings(a lose would have put kings up a 1/2 a game.

Things are very cold in the southeast, Orlando can't get a break, Miami with two bad losses, and ATL with 4 losses.

Lets just hope things stay cold for another week or so, while we make our rounds with them.

All analysis aside......I really, really want 20 wins!!!!!

[FJS]

In the rest of January we have those games:
@ ATL tonight
@ DET saturday
vs MIA monday 14th,
vs CLE saturday 19th
vs WAS wednesday 23rd
@ LAL friday 25th
vs IND saturday 26th
vs HOU monday 28th
vs NOH wednesday 30th

If we are a serious team, we should win at least 6 or 7 of those games.
I can live with a lost vs MIA, and a loss @ LAL (if they had great performances of Kobe, Howard, Nash and Pau), even with a loss @ ATL. Still all the other games are a must win, altough Pacers and Houston are playing great and have better records than us.

[FJS]

Something like 26-20 or 25-21 sound better than our record.

[RyanStorm]

We did beat Houston @Energy(*However Harden was supposedly sick and didn't play in the 2nd half)...I see obvious tough ones MIA, ATL, and HOU...

Pacers and Lakers are also tough and can easily win. However losing 5 out of all these is terrible.