The Spirit of the Sky!

Sky Andrecheck lives on as we can see in this headline:

New, revitalized Jazz are semi-legitimate

Ballsy.

Only the most maladjusted and insecure among those on hand at EnergySolutions Arena, including the players, could have cared in the least about the final count Thursday night, when the Jazz opened their 2010 preseason against Portland in the annual Who-Gives-A-Flyin’-Rip Classic.

Yeah. Pre-season NBA basketball is the only thing on earth less meaningful then...well...regular season NBA basketball.

Not even Jerry Sloan cared about the end result. The proof? He played Kyrylo Fesenko, Earl Watson, Sundiata Gaines, Jeremy Evans, and Gordon Hayward for most of the fourth quarter, while the front-line guys spectated.

S.O.P. in preseason basketball games I would guess. I've never actually watched one. It's true. I'm not a scout so why the heck would I?

Winning a game on Oct. 7 mattered not enough to even mention the score here.

Yuck! That sentence left a bad taste in my mouth. But yes, we get the point, preseason basketball doesn't matter. I'm going to fix that sentence also: The game was so meaningless I'm not even going to mention the score.

The numbers on the board were mere digits in the lights on this insignificant night.

Right, the game lacked any meaning. It was a black hole of meaning. Put dog crap in one hand and the meaning of that game in the other and see which one gets filled first. We all get it.


The real issue was how the new and revitalized Jazz would fit together in their first taste of semi-legitimate competition against a semi-legitimate opponent in semi-legitimate circumstances.
The semi-legitimate short answer? Semi-legitimate.

That's some legitimately terrible writing from a semi-legitimate journalist.

But semi-legitimate enough for Deron Williams to believe this bunch of Jazz players could be the best he’s ever competed with in his six seasons here. His only qualifiers: “Once we start clicking,” and, “We’re going to need that second group.”

Why even list these cliche's? Why? And what was Deron supposed to say? "Yeah, without Boozer we're much worse off. I've pretty much written the season off and look forward to playing for the Heat in the future."


The first group, a starting lineup of Williams, Raja Bell, Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, and Andrei Kirilenko, rolled up a big lead on the Blazers, and from there ... planted a new seed that looked promising, indeed.

The first group 'planted their seed' in the Blazers. Heh...

That's it for me. The rest of the article is a good analysis of the Jazz players and how they looked. Nothing more to see here folks.

Case Closed.