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Sonic Boom... The Sonics 59%
shooting from the field and the three point line was to much for the Jazz to
overcome, as they fell 122-105 Sunday night at Key Arena.
Andrei Kirilenko was a bright spot
for the Jazz scoring 14 points with 2 blocked shots in 14 minutes of play.
Next game January 26, 7:00 pm (MT) vs. Seattle
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The Games People Play
With almost half of the season over, it's time to look at how our contest
and player games and awards are progressing.
In our gamepicker,
Utahfan leads the points race with 153, densuprun leads the percentage race
with 73%. This years contest is staying close gamepicker
standings.
Three weeks ago, we started our
player of the week
contest decided by our posters. All three weeks have been won by Mehmet
Okur. With Andrei Kirilenko hopefully coming back this week his streak of
wins may be in jeopardy.
Finally, this is our 4th year of
Jazzhoops survivor
as mentioned on NBA.com. This year we mixed things up a little bit, and gave
the boot to three players the first week. Curtis
Borchardt, Howard Eisley and Aleksandar Radojevic were the posters
first victims. The next week Jarron Collins and Carlos Arroyo were benched.
Next Keith
McLeod (3rd week) Kris Humphries (4th week) and Kirk Snyder
(5th week) were sent to the showers. You can check the progress of the game
each week in the
Jazzhoops survivor forum.
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Our Little Jazz
By Johnathan Kendrick
Those who have children should have no trouble relating to the Jazz this
year. Those who don’t should
be taking notes. I’ll explain.
When children are born they can do nothing wrong. The first part of their
lives they
are the cutest, most well behaved
children
ever born, and their potential – don’t get a parent started. Things change –
just ask your parents. No matter how perfect that kid is to start off with,
sooner or later that child will do something that you wish they wouldn’t
have. Its not the end of the world; the future is still there, but there can
be some tough times.
The Jazz started out this season with all the hype, and everyone was talking
about how good this team was. At 6-1, the west had been won, in our hearts
at least. Then came 8-11; that was a tough time, but how did the Jazz ever
get there? The same way any good kid gets
into
trouble.
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Jazz have
scary visit to Seattle
The Jazz started the second half of the 2004-05 NBA
season in the most frightening of fashions Sunday night.
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Jazz are anything but 'super'
Whoever called in the bomb threat
to Key Arena on Sunday was a couple of hours late. The real danger was wearing
Sonics uniforms.
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Bomb threat in Key Arena forces fans to leave
quickly
Police officials in Seattle were forced to quickly evacuate
Key Arena shortly after the Jazz's loss to the Sonics on Sunday night because a
bomb threat was phoned in to the arena.
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Jazz Notes: Chiesa tells Jazz they must band
together
Gordon Chiesa normally spends a couple of hours before each game working on the
Jazz's mechanics, and their understanding of the offense. Sunday, he wanted to
work on their psyche, too.
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Andrei's
return can't save Jazz
The Russian Exile returned with a bang, but the Jazz left with barely a whimper.
The Memphis Grizzlies beat the Jazz 110-94 Saturday night, putting the Jazz to
bed early in the fourth quarter with a 23-4 run. Explosive applause welcomed
Andrei Kirilenko back from his two-month hiatus.
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Jazz Notes: Snyder gets turn on injured list
Kirk Snyder came down with a sudden case of . . . well, a minor knee irritation
that he's had for months and doesn't really bother him. He's expected to
survive.
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Jazz lack
pizzazz
Andrei Kirilenko was back, Carlos Arroyo was gone. And the Utah Jazz were just
kind of, well, neutral Saturday night in the Delta Center in breaking a five-day
layoff with a "disinterested" outing.
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Jazz: Not looking up
Totally understandable, wasn't it? The Jazz went splat against the
Grizzlies on Saturday, but who could blame them? The shock of a trade, the
distraction of an All-Star's return, the staleness of four days off - c'mon,
they've had it tough.
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A nervous
Kirilenko returns
Andrei Kirilenko's most-noted NBA moment didn't come the night he racked up 31
points last year against Miami, or the two times he registered rare "5X5s." It
didn't occur when he was named an All-Star, either.
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Jazz Sunday
After an intense come-from-behind victory over the Lakers, the Jazz were
heartened by Andrei Kirilenko's return to practice on Thursday, the end of the
Russian All-Star's recuperation from a knee injury that kept him off the court
for eight weeks.
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McLeod and
Arroyo ready to prove their worth
In the space of a few months, the Utah Jazz went from thinking they'd
signed their long-term point guard to shipping him off to Detroit.
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Sides can't explain falling out
How can someone who played so well a season ago have his game go the way of a
magician's hare the next season? How can someone go from having a new long-term
contract to, poof, gone in just more than six months?
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What's
left for Jazz: unproven points, added draft picks
Carlos Arroyo is in Detroit, and in fact was playing Saturday night for the
Pistons.
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goodbye ... Arroyo sent to Detroit for Campbell, '06 pick
Barely more than six months ago, the Jazz signed
Carlos Arroyo to a four-year, $16 million contract that presumably foretold a
lengthy stay in Utah for the Puerto Rican point guard.
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Luhm: Point guard no longer was
a fit for the Jazz
It doesn't take long for last year's perfect fit to
become this year's throw-away, as former Jazz point guard Carlos Arroyo found
out Friday morning.
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Trading away point guard sends message to team
When Carlos Arroyo was asked by a KSL-TV reporter Thursday if
he and Jazz coach Jerry Sloan had discussed their situation privately, he said,
"That's internal." Yeah, even more than we knew. A day later, he was gone.
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Kragthorpe: Arroyo can blame
Olympics
This idea would have seemed
ridiculous as of that Sunday in August, when Carlos Arroyo was the best player
on the floor in a game involving the USA Olympic basketball team.
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Kirilenko's raring to get back on court with Jazz
Barely more than six months ago, the Jazz signed Carlos Arroyo to a four-year,
$16 million contract that presumably foretold a lengthy stay in Utah for the
Puerto Rican point guard.
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Arroyo: Best Jazz moments,
details on the deal
The TOP 3 Carlos Arroyo's best moments with the Jazz.
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Sloan insists spat didn't lead
to trade
Jerry Sloan knows how this looks. He understands the
lesson that NBA observers are going to take from this transaction: Smart off to
Utah's coach and start packing your bags.
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McLeod, Lopez benefit most from
Arroyo's trade
Three NBA teams invited Keith McLeod to training camp
last October, and though Portland, Denver and Utah all touted the opportunity to
make their teams, the free-agent guard tried to stay realistic about his chances
of playing much as a backup.
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Kirilenko could play tonight
Andrei Kirilenko had no swelling
and no soreness in his knee when he woke up Friday, and was elated. He got the
go-ahead to practice again, the next step toward returning to the Jazz lineup,
and was excited. And then he heard about Carlos Arroyo being traded to Detroit.
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Change of guard: Arroyo to get a
fresh start with Pistons
The Utah Jazz and point guard Carlos Arroyo -
increasingly displeased with each other in recent weeks - parted ways Friday.
Arroyo was traded to the Detroit Pistons for a first-round draft pick in 2006
and center Elden Campbell. Utah's draft-pick stockpile is now three first-rounders,
in addition to its own.
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Jazz retire Stockton's number |
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John Stockton's
jersey was retired November 22 at halftime by
the Utah Jazz. A sell out crowd was on
hand along with former teammates and dignitaries
to honor Stockton with the retirement of his
number. Jazzhoops was there as a group of poster
and readers from all over the world
converged on the Delta Center to
honor John Stockton.
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Also a group of 16
JazzHoops members welcomed this year's Jazz onto
the floor for warm-ups before the game. A
blending of the old and the new.
A big thanks to the Utah Jazz for a memorable evening.
Articles and tributes about Stockton.
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Exclusive Interview |
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Jazzhoops Close Up: With Kris
Humphries |
By Johnathan
Kendrick
Jazzhoops.net head
writer
Going into this year’s draft the
Utah Jazz had big expectations – power forward or
center sized expectations. When their 14th pick
rolled around, they were happy to select
University of Minnesota PF, Kris
Humphries. Humphries officially measured in at
6’9” – a height that saw his stock rise the week
before the draft.
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Exclusive Interview |
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Close up with Kirk
Snyder |
By Johnathan
Kendrick
Jazzhoops.net head writer
Going
into the NBA draft, who Kirk Snyder is, was no
mystery. The Western Athletic Conference Most
V just led his team the Nevada
Wolfpack, to one of the most sacred places in all
of sports – The NCAA Tournament round of Sweet 16.
Not only was it farther then that team had ever
been before, it was further then anyone had given
them a chance to go.
read
more...
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Jan. 26
7:00 pm
Jazz vs Seattle |
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Final
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