Not to be a Debbie-Downer or anything, but I have a few things to get off my chest and what better place than here on True Blue Jazz since most of the things that suck in my life right now start and end with the Utah Jazz. 

"Damn I look good!"

1 - Carlos Boozer. 
You are dead to me Carlos.  You hear that?  D-E-A-D dead.  You did this for the first two years of your contract with some other bogus leg injury and now its deja-vu all over again.  At this point why even suit up for a game for the rest of the year?  If I am Deron Williams and I am out there busting my butt and playing on an ankle that is 80% at best I am pissed like hell that Carlos will not get on the court until he is 100%.  Even Hot-Rod Hundley is calling you out on the radio every day now saying that you are weak and that your agent is "advising" you to not play right now.  I really do think that you enjoy sitting on the bench showing off your Crushed Velvet suits and diamond bracelets more than being a teamate.  At least Paul Milsap is greatful that you are puss - every game you miss is another million dollars on the end of that contract he is going to get next year.

"Whoa, where did you come from?

2 - Deron Williams.
I really admire Deron for getting on the court and helping his team, but man this is getting hard to watch.  The effort and heart are still there, but the results just plain suck.  It sucks to see Rajon Rondo and Jameer Nelson having career nights against you buddy.  I am not saying that Deron sucks, it just sucks that he is not quite himself yet.  But hey at least he is putting it out there every night, right Carlos?

"I don't know, maybe I should have called a time out there"

3 - Jerry Sloan.
I have a few gripes about J-Slo's coaching right now. 
A- He continues to give Matt Harpring playing time (more on that in a minute).
B- When Deron Williams and Paul Milsap both have 5 fouls in the fourth quarter of close game play a damn zone so the other team can't isolate those two and pick and roll them to death.  The Celtics knew that Deron and Paul would not defend it agressively with 5 fouls and killed the Jazz with the same play for last 5 minutes. 
C- When the other team (Orlando in this case) starts off the the 3rd quarter on a 12-0 run and erases your 10 point halftime lead in about 2 minutes call a freaking time out.   Do you get bonuses for every timeout you saved at the end of the year?  I understand that you want your guys to play through it sometimes, but you waited until your team had not only blown a 10 point lead, but were down by 10 points before you thought it would be a good idea to yell at them.  I blame Jerry Sloan and Carlos Boozer for the home loss to Orlando, it could have been prevented.

"Please go in, please go in!"

4 - Matt Harpring.
Please, please, please go back to playing football.  I can not handle any more missed layups.  Can we start a legaly binding petition that Deron, Brevin, AK and Ronnie Price all have to sign saying that if they have Matt Harpring on the wing for a fast break they will not pass it to him?  After he misses said layup he always looks like the kid in baseball who lets the grounder go between his and then stares at his mitt like it was the mitts fault somehow.  Matt has that same look for the back-board like it got extra springy or something just when he went up for the lay-up.  Some how this is Carlos Boozers fault.

"Seriously, if you miss the free throw it will be ok."

5 - Memo Okur shooting Technical Free Throws.
I bet he is a 50% to 60% free throw shooter on technicals for his career.  Some one on the Jazz's coaching staff should be in charge of finding that out and making sure we have the best possible shooter on the line for those.  I wonder if Carlos tells him that his agent will get him more money on his next contract if misses them.

"I was born to dunk."

6 - Ronnie Brewers jump shot.
Its time to start running the base line for easy dunks again Ronnie.  I get a little bit of puke in my mouth when you shoot the ball outside of 5 feet.  I bet if Carlos was playing you would have those open lanes again like last year.

Ahhhh, that felt good to get of my chest.  I had more, but in honor of Carlos Boozer I am going to quit now and wait to finish this when I am feeling 100%.

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