NBA Conspiracy Theories revealed!

The win over Dallas showed more than just signs of the team we knew and loved last year – it was a statement. I was proud of the guys and their ability to hold off the Mavs in the last few minutes of the game – they FINALLY showed some consistency!!!

Memo was looking great and Miles really stepped up in place of Giricek – the team truly gave us something to cheer about.

I look forward to this next stretch of games where eight of the 11 are going to be at home. The Christmas break gave the guys some much needed rest and finally they’re going to have some more consistently available practice time – I hope they use a great deal of it to work on their free throws.

Of all the statements I hope our guys set out to make over the next few weeks – I hope they drive this one home stronger than anything else: The league’s little darlings, the Boston Celtics, are overrated!

I’m going to go off on a tangent now, and I may get fined or banned from the blog, but hopefully everyone who reads will be able to relate. One of the many things that aggrivates me so much about Utah’s scenario over the past month is the fact that while they’ve been traveling over 10,000 miles in a number of weeks because of how the league has scheduled their games – teams like freakin’ Boston haven’t even ventured out west yet! The longest road trip Boston has had to endure thus far has been two short stints of two games a piece – the first to New Jersey and Indiana, and the second to Charolette and Cleveland – and the poor guys only got three days to rest in between both pairs of games.

Meanwhile, Utah has been racking up the frequent flyer miles as the team with the most road games played in the league. Since Nov 14, of the 22 games Utah played – sixteen were on the road – nearly three times as many as they played at home – and virtually all of them were back east. I read that at one point in a 40 day stretch, the Jazz had had time for seven team practices! SEVEN! No wonder they were blowing their free throws and falling short at the end of so many games – they were running out of gas! I don’t care who you are, when you’re traveling that much in such a short amount of time, the road is going to wear on you.

As a fun family activity I suggest you pull up Utah’s and Boston’s schedules and compare them next to each other – it gets a little easier for Utah as far as traveling is concerned – and Boston does have two really fun five game road trips in Feb and March – but the fact of the matter is there’s been a huge conspiracy going on to give Boston the easy start and the Jazz a very high chance of being killed in a plane crash or at least a higher likelihood of losing the majority of their road games while traveling so much.

I’m sure somebody is going to try and point out the fact that every team has to play 82 games and travel to just as many different destinations throughout the season, but the way those games are scheduled can make a huge difference – as Utah and Boston have proven.

I’ve been the first to get on the Jazz’s case for playing such poor basketball in December, but in looking at the schedules – I realize there’s a bit more to it. Fortunately Utah hasn’t been moaning and groaning like some other teams most likely would be if they were in the same scenario. I hope instead that Utah has vowed to stick it to the man. And what better way to do it than by beating the shorts off the league’s favorite little project, the Boston C’s.