November 2008 Monthly Recap

I really mailed it in late this month, much like the Jazz have as well. With my birthday and thanksgiving and all that jazz, I really started to let myself slack on the whole blog front. Anyway, let's try to right this ship here. There were only 31 posts this month (down from a massive 65 in October), but some posts are worth checking out.

Regular Features:

YouTube Tuesdays: [2]

1. Millsap own Kaman
2. Ronnie Price Buzzer Beaters

Flashback Fridays: [1]

1. The first 10 games of the last two seasons

For the records, there were four tuesdays and fridays in this past month, so 3/8 is pretty poor.

Original Articles:

• Poll Results: Aside from the Title, what's the most important goal for this season?
• New Poll: What will happen first? (Poll Results here)
• New Poll: How will the Jazz do on this 5 game Eastern Conference Road trip? (Poll Results here)
• New Poll: What's the main problem so far this season?
• Looking at the Top five 6th men so far . . .
• Cool article / trip down memory lane! (recap of the two regular season games the Jazz played against the Phoenix Suns back in the 1990-1991 season)
• Where in the world is Tadija Dragicevic and Ante Tomic?
• Recent blog articles I've enjoyed -- and the All Euro Team response to the All Whitey Team
• Elie Seckback interviews Kyrylo Fesenko (hilarious!)
• Kosta Koufos signs off his interviews like an Anchorman from the 1950's
• Not-so-Jazzy nicknames . . . part deux (names for Knight, Koufos, Fesenko, Almond and Price)
• 201! (I reached my 2nd hundred posts! Click here for a caption contest)
• 10 Things Jazz fans should be thankful for

News Inspired:

• Game 2 Recap: Utah 101, LA Clippers 79; Game 3 Preview: Utah @ LA Clippers [Jason Hart Revenge Game #1, and #2]
• Detroit trades for Allen Iverson
• Game 3 Recap: Utah 89, LA Clippers 73
• Game 4 Recap: Utah 103, Portland 96
• Game 5 Recap: Utah 104, Oklahoma City 97
• Jerry Sloan wins 1k with the Jazz
• Memo's dad is in the ICU; Deron may make a go of it tonight

Amar's October Recommendations:

Slim pickings this month, but I'd check out the Elie Seckback interview of Fesenko; the re-imagining of 19 year old interviews, starring Kosta Koufos; and the 2nd part of the 3 part series of Utah Jazz Nicknames.

October 2008 Monthly Recap

Wow, 65 total posts . . . I must have no life . . . or alternatively, the NBA season must have finally started! Hooray! I wasn't always on time, but a major point of October was the season preview. (check it out, it's the best season preview on the net at over 20 pages!) Anyway, on to the links:

Regular Features:

YouTube Tuesdays: [4]

1. Utah Jazz mix from NBA 2k8;
2. Mehmet Okur Interview drinking game;
3. Mark Eaton throws it down;
4. AllThatJazz is #3!

Flashback Fridays: [4]

1. Ranking the Rookie Seasons of CJ Miles, Ronnie Brewer and Morris Almond;
2. The 1990 NBA Draft (or how Derrick Coleman sucks);
3. Andrei back when he was AK-47;
4. Taking a look at how the Jazz have handled rookies, and how long the brass has taken to evaluate them (Morris Almond related)

Original Articles:

• A pictorial review of Mehmet Okur's evolution
• Things to look for this season from: Kosta Koufos; Kyrylo Fesenko; Brevin Knight; Morris Almond; Ronnie Price; Matt Harpring; Mehmet Okur; Andrei Kirilenko; Carlos Boozer; and Deron Williams
• Apparently we were the most clutch offensive team last season . . . if stats don't lie
• Poll Results: C.J. Miles is going to be the 'talk' of training camp this season
• New Poll: Aside from the Title, what's the most important goal for this season?
• The Five Epic qualities of Jerry Eugene Sloan (compliment to the negative article from the previous month)
• Very early look at the Top 10 prospects in the 2010 NBA Draft
• An attempt at finding a solution for the playing time / rotation problem
• The Utah Jazz 2008-2009 Season Preview
• The Best homecourt advantage in the NBA just got better

News Inspired:

• The Pre-Season Schedule was released, and here are the player stats from those games
• A game recap for Pre-Season Game 1 vs. the LA Lakers
• A review of Kyrylo Fesenko's game against Shaquille O'Neal
• Jerry Sloan charged with murder aka calling out Morris Almond, Sloan also rips Kosta Koufos a new one while Fesenko has his only good game of the season so far.
• Preview of the Preseason game vs. the Nuggets, and the post game recap as well!
• Some reporters can't stop writing about Andrei off the bench
• ESPN's Chad Ford likes the Utah Jazz
• Deron Williams' Injury isn't going to hurt the Utah Jazz
• Brevin Knight had a really good 4th quarter, against the Portland Trailblazers (2 points, 7 assists, 4 steals)
• I was right on the money for what to expect in the Nugget's game

Amar's October Recommendations:

1. Obviously, I think the season preview is worth a gander
2. I was surprised and pleased by my placing in LA Ball Talk's Team Blog contest (AllThatJazz is #3!)
3. The whole Deron injury could have made things iffy for the Jazz, but the schedule isn't so bad when you look at it.
4. Andrei is a pretty good player when he gets All-Star minutes, I looked at over 200 games worth of data and figured it out: he's the same guy he was in 2003-2004, look at my findings and see for yourself!
5. The Morris Almond saga: A tale of two cities, limited returns, how he compares to other NBA SG's (objective statistical analysis by The Wages of Wins), the recent news of how the Jazz are not going attempt to find playing time for him -- or pay him $1.15 million dollars to keep him next season.

Amar's September Recommendations . . .

I don't expect anyone to read all my posts, but here are what I think are the best things on this site, over the last month (in chronological order):

YouTube Tuesdays! Andrei Kirilenko is still a bad, bad man; The man they call Mobe What if: the USSR played at the Olympics? Adrian Dantley -- better late than never Hoops-pedia: Game of Destiny The Five Epic Errors of Jerry Eugene Sloan Things to look for this season: Ronnie Brewer, Paul Millsap, C.J. Miles, Kyle Korver, Jarron Collins Flashback Friday: First 20 games of the previous seasons; The 1988-1989 Utah Jazz

Sure, this looks like a lot, but it's far from everything, and this is not a redundant post from the Monthly recap, as this is just the best of the best if you like long, crunchy, posts that make you think.