Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Game 36: Utah Jazz vs Atlanta Hawks

vs
87 - 110
Season Record: 24-12

The Hawks owned the Jazz tonight, in Salt Lake worst of all. Like i've said before, i like a lot of things about the Jazz this year so far, and at the beginning of the season if you would have asked if i'd be happy if the Jazz were 24-12 i would have said yeah. However, there are a few things that have me worried about the Jazz that they've got to fix if they want to go far into the post-season.
1. Start games better. I'm sick of watching first quarters and seeing the Jazz get down double digits in just about every game, home and away. Its good that they've shown that they have enough heart to stick in games and come back and win, but, we've seen that now, we know they can do it, stop making it so that you have to every night.
2. Play better at home. Like Paul says the Jazz have not played very well at home this year. We are used to the Jazz being great at home and hardly ever losing there. This year the Jazz are 13-7 at home and 11-5 on the road. I'm happy about their success on the road this year, but their home record is just not good enough. A few years ago the Jazz lost just 5 games at home all year. Come on buddies.. play better at home.

Season Series vs Atlanta: 1-1

2 comments:

Paul said...

The Jazz need to get better at home. I used to have more confidence that they would beat whoever they played. They are losing to good teams, but still they used to be a dominant home team.

They have a lot of potential, but as usual it looks like they won't fully realize it. Ah well, what else is new?

Geoff said...

Looks so Paul, by how they are going this will probably be their worst home record in many many years.