[Utah] Jazz Man Mark

Great American Beer Festival TONIGHT!!!

Your favorite idiot Utah Jazz opinion-haver and fact-giver and optimism-dispenser will be enjoying approximately 4,000,000 beers tonight from around the world.

GABF gets a little cornier and less celebratory of beer every year, but it's still a great time.

first question: has colin gillespie seen any athletes die on the court from the covid vaccine?

Oh 100%. I think it is very easy to play intentionally and still only win 25-30 games. the idea is that we're fine being the 6th worst record instead of simply trying to be the Literal Worst Team

I think Kyle is ahead of Svi; Hardy was notable last season for preferring to start Svi if there was a paucity of capable players or just bench him outright. I wouldn't read into his start at all

Love should only play if three big men are out, right? Walker/Lauri/Flip all being out was key there

Niles by a country mile.

david locke looking like the rest of us after that ace bailey debut

This was my @loudclap.bsky.social moment of last night:

Key manipulates the corner defender as he's looking to to an entry pass, and then perfectly times a pass to the corner when the corner defender has over-committed.

Ace then attacks the closeout with force and athleticism instead of settling

you gotta watch. i couldnt believe the player i was watching. decisive, fast, fully aware of all other 9 players on the court

(defense was awful)

Last night was just a slam dunk win for the Utah Jazz. I don't care if it's 1 preseason game; the vision has real shape now and Utah has to build on that:

1. Ace Bailey is a star
2. Brice Sensabaugh has reached the pantheon of NBA shooters
3. Keyonte MIGHT actually figure out this lead guard role

i dont think i've ever seen the "Free Real Estate" guy in a different gif haha

This made me audibly lol. Dudes rock

Hell yeah

Correct

If Toumani Camara is an Actual Shooter now instead of a fake 35%-from-the-corners shooter, hoo boy

Very promising 13-point loss for the Jazz to the Rockets to start preseason.

No Lauri, Kessler, Collier, or Flip.

Putting up 127 against Udoka's defense at mostly full strength is intriguing

Keyonte had an easy 9 assists. Ace looks like a star. Sensabaugh still a wildly deadly shooter.

Utah with an interesting Bailey/Hendricks at the 4/5 lineup to close this one out

Proooobably because they've exhausted how many minutes they can credibly give Nurkic and Love in a preseason game, (Kessler/Flip/Lauri all out tonight) but still

My expectations have been preposterous for about a month now, we'll crash together or be kings of the bandwagon

The Jazz look to be the leagues worst transition defense again by a country mile. Whatever coaching is happening there just isn't working.

Whats notable is that to be as bad as they are, they fuck up in new ways all the time. It's just always a different player, different situation, etc. Always bad

Dropped a Ken Clayton Trademark Loud Clap on that Ace Bailey drive from the corner to an acrobatic scooping layup.

Ace has 23. He's been fabulous offensively and opportunistic defensively.

A+ professional debut.

Survivor is now Outdoor Theater Kid Camp and it's awful

Kevin Love! Jeff Green! It's NBA Preseason Basketball!

Tune in to see how the stars of...yesterday...look in exhibition action!

Utah fans are simply stunned they opted to keep him over Juzang.

Svi Mykhailiuk is a nonsense bad basketball player. Once every 8 games he has an okay game.

Brice Sensabaugh is evolving into a "holy shit pants on fire" shooter for the defense to deal with

Taylor Hendricks has been the best player on both ends of the floor for Utah. Not afraid to put the ball on the deck, either. Highly intrigued, here.

Kevin Love is actually playing in preseason, lmao okay

both contested, as well. the type of shots that if they go in or not, he's clearly trusted to take & make them

Taylor Hendricks aggressive from three, 2-for-2 in 2 minutes to start his return back from the broken leg. Great to see him back on the court after Dallas.

For the first time this year...

...It's Time to Play: Jazz Basketball

Rockets already have a preseason game under their wing so wouldn't be surprised to see them get a jump on Utah in 1,000 different ways, to say nothing of the talent disparity.

Taylor Hendricks and Ace Bailey starting.

what happens to me is i lose it in the house if a kid got to it or something; i just have something in there that can play a noise from an app on my phone to find it.