Jazz Must Learn to Defend the 3 Ball!

In what has now become commonplace at the Energy Solutions Arena and abroad, the Jazz have fallen once again because they cannot defend, especially the 3-pointer. Watching the Jazz play lately has reminded me of the 05-06 Phoenix Suns, a lousy defensive team that scores in the 100's every game, but allows even more. The Jazz have dropped two straight games at home that they should have win (allowing over 50% shooting from the 3-point land in both games), and are now a woeful 7-8 in January. Talk about going into the All-Star break on a roll, eh? The Jazz are still first in their division, but they are battered and bruised both mentally and physically. In the last two weeks, the Jazz have lost three games on last second shots. First they lost to the Washington Wizards on a buzzer beater by Gilbert Arenas, then to Memphis Grizzlies on a shot by Eddie Jones, and last game to the New Jersey Nets on a 3-pointer by Vince Carter. You can see it on their dejected faces of disgust and unbelief as they walk off the court, the Jazz are not playing their best basketball. Then on the physical side of things, Carlos Boozer went down on Saturday with a bruised knee. The MRI reports came back negative, but we should still expect Boozer to miss the next couple of games. In what started out as a very promising season has quickly turned into a situation where the Jazz are holding on to a playoff spot and just trying to stop the bleeding before they become lottery bound for the fourth straight year. I simply cannot watch the Jazz anymore, they are the hardest team to watch. Every game they lose is in a way that breaks your heart and brings back feelings of the '98 NBA Finals - Game 6. Last week after the Jazz let Gilbert Arenas go Hibachi on them, I vowed to not watch a single Jazz game the rest of the year until they made the playoffs. I caved in tonight because I literally had nothing else to do and they broke my heart again. I can't take it anymore, if I continue in watching Jazz games with the type of results that have been coming lately, I'm going to die of a heart attack at a very, very, very young age.