Al Jefferson News

Who is crazy? Amar is crazy. Here's a chart that shows the individual PERs by playing time for our team this past year.

The toughness of our Jazz team last year has been questioned several times. Whether it's JJ Barea bumping Hayward at the FT line, or Dirk smacking the ball out of the hands of Derrick Favors , besides Earl Watson our team seemed to be a little soft.

Utah Jazz Statistics BONUS: How many minutes do Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, and Derrick Favors need for "Half-a-Karl"? The sad thing about using Karl Malone as a measuring stick for your current players is that, well, he makes your current players look really bad.

A quick flip of a coin effectively dashed the Utah Jazz ' hopes of nabbing a first-round draft pick in the upcoming 2012 NBA Draft .

On one hand, there was his career-high averages of 15.4 points, 10 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game in his first full season with the Phoenix Suns, and he ended the year as the eighth-best NBA player in total rebounds and rebounds per game.

Kevin O' Connor was on 1320 KFAN yesterday in the afternoon, and actually only gave 2 no comment type of answers in his 22 minutes of being on the radio! Among some of the more interesting revelations: The Jazz don't feel like they need a first rounder, we have lots of youth already by having 5 1st or 2nd year players on the roster .

It's no longer good enough to measure San Antonio against the other teams left in the field, but to start rifling through the archives, examining cave walls for drawings of ancient races that might have once played the game so well.

I have been writing a few pieces on the Utah Jazz and their relationship with the three point line.

One could say that I take an absurdly analytic approach to the game of basketball.

Clearly the jazz have issues to take care of this offseason. They need to trade Paul or Al for a pg or a lot of 3 point shooters.

Wow, that sounds like a boring title. Well, this may or may not be a boring subject.

The Utah Jazz are a postseason memory at this point of the 2012 NBA playoffs, but that doesn't mean Jazz fans are tuned out of the pro hoops scene.

It's very unlikely the Chicago Bulls will use the amnesty clause on Carlos Boozer this summer, because it's quite apparent that such a maneuver will not free up extra cap space.

Locke is conducting season reviews on all the players at Locked on Sports . Be warned, though - it's pretty heavy.

Note: my visuals have been severely minimized, please just click on the picture to view a larger version of it.

The 2011-2012 NBA Season is not over quite yet, well, it is for the Utah Jazz . Being a Utah Jazz blog it's never too early to start looking at what needs to happen this off-season. The #1 thing I want the Jazz to do is to at least PLAY in the same league as the rest of the teams.

Wow, that was fast. Just like that, the 2011- 2012 NBA season was over in an instant.

Both LA teams were taken to the brink, but found a way to win their respective Game 7s and move on to the second round to face much tougher opponents.

April was the last month of the regular season, and if it was not for the Utah Jazz going on a tear to win 9 of their last 13 games, it would have been the last month of the season.

The Utah Jazz returned to Energy Solutions Arena this morning to clean out their lockers and meet with the coaches and organization.