As a Jazz fan, I am use to not winning. I'm used to players not wanting to move to Salt Lake. I'm use to being built up, just to be torn down. I'm use to not expecting much at the end of the season.
However, this season has been more trying then others. Michael Jordan broke my heart 12 years ago. Stockton left the game after a first round domination by the Kings. And just a few years ago I watched a Jazz team filled with names like Arroyo, Handlogden, and Giricek, win only 26 games. But even with all that pain, this year has just been torment. This team is filled with NBA All-Stars in Carlos Boozer, Memo Okur, Andrei Kirilenko, and a Super Star in Deron Williams. This team is suppose to be elite, but they are barely good. Injuries have plagued this team all year, and the team, media, and fans alike, used this as an excuse for the poor record on the road. Yet, with all the pieces together, this team still stinks.
The road record I speak of? These guys are 2-16 against teams that are .500 or better. So, against their "peers" they only can beat them away from home 11% percent of the time. Yet, for the most part, the Jazz are the most dominate team at home (no disrespect to the Cavs). The Jazz run at home. They fight. They shoot the ball well. They defend. They play TEAM ball. Yet on the road this team has NO HEART!
It's not just the elite teams that beat us on the road. Out of all the Western playoff contenders, the Jazz have the worst record away from the "Mo-trix". Side note, I call Salt Lake the Mo-trix. It's a play on all the Mormons and the Matrix. Sometimes this place seems surreal. Anyhow....
I just can't take the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde play of this team. Deron Williams is trying too much to prove he belongs with the elite, and in doing so he throws the ball away more than anyone else in the NBA. Carlos Boozer is softer then melting ice cream, on a cloud, covered by kittens, on a giant baby's ass! It is mind boggling how the same guys can beat a team at home by 20, but then lose to the same team when the game is played in a different city, EVER TIME!
In protest of this current Jazz team I am not going to any remaining games this season, nor will I attend the first round beat down that lies ahead. And yes, they will lose in the first round as we will start the playoffs on the road, where they CAN'T win.
It's too bad that these guys can't figure out how to play and to give all these loyal Jazz fans something to cheer for. With the economy the way it is, it is harder and harder for people to pay to go see games, and so I ask, why do we keep investing into men who don't give us their all?
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