Utah Jazz: At least pick didn't get booed
Mike Sorensen
It's probably a good thing the Jazz didn't invite the fans for draft night at the EnergySolutions Arena like they have in the past. The reaction to the pick of Kosta Koufos would likely have been similar to the reaction at Madison Square Garden when the Knicks chose Italian Danilo Gallinari. Which was similar to the one at my house by my Jazz-fan son when the Jazz chose Koufos ...
There's something about unknown big guys with funny names that makes fans wary. Sometimes they work out (Dirk Nowitzki, Manu Ginobli) and sometimes they don't (Darko Milicic, Niciloz Tskitishvili, Oleksiy Pecherov, Greg Ostertag) ...
The Jazz brass certainly were excited to get a player projected to be picked as high as 13 or 14 at No. 23. However, the simple fact is, Koufos fell to 23 for a reason or else a bunch of teams would have taken him. You can't say the Jazz got a lottery player. He's still a No. 23 pick ...
I'm not saying Koufos won't be a good player. He's been compared favorably by some to Mehmet Okur, so perhaps he can take the Turk's place in four or five years. By then he'll only be 23 or 24 ...
Speaking of Kite, did you know he started 225 games during his career, including all 82 in 1990-91 with Orlando? At least Plaisted is a slightly better free-throw shooter than Kite, who shot an abysmal 48.6 percent from the foul line in his NBA career ...
Once again, no American male players made it to the second week of Wimbledon. This year was one of the worst ever, however, with only one American male player making it as far as the third round, the worst U.S. showing since 1926. With Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova both eliminated last week, the Williams sisters are on a collision course for the finals, unless they start playing like the American men ...
How about former Salt Lake pitcher Jered Weaver becoming just the fifth pitcher in Major League history to be the losing pitcher in a no-hitter pitched by his own team. Weaver pitched the first six innings of the Angels 1-0 loss to the Dodgers Friday, but his error contributed to L.A.'s only run in the fifth inning ...
Just when local fans were getting excited about the Blaze, they go and blow a lead and lose a playoff game at home. While it was disappointing, give Danny White and the Blaze credit for recovering from that awful 0-9 start all the way to hosting a first-round playoff game ...
Just when local fans are getting excited about Real Salt Lake after five straight games without a loss, the team goes and loses in the worst possible way — an own-goal in the 89th minute to one of the league's worst teams. At least RSL still has more than three months left on its schedule, unlike the Blaze, who are done for the year ...
Recent comments
SLC Gal and others.
The only people that ever under-rated...
Fernando Arias | July 5, 2008 at 10:17 p.m.
Very good point 13-23 :)
Assuming that teams are somehow...
Fernando Arias | July 5, 2008 at 10:07 p.m.
Why are you ragging on Greg Ostertag? No, he's not nearly as...
ed | July 4, 2008 at 3:36 p.m.
