By Any Other Name

By djepperson, Section NBA
Posted on Sun Oct 22 2006 at 9:14 PM EST
More on: Utah Jazz, Deron Williams, Gordan Giricek, Andrei Kirilenko, Carols Boozer, Mehmet Okur (all tags)

Here's the thing about pre-season previews. It's a time for people to sound off and pass judgment on who will be hot and who will be not. While many craft these learned opinions from years of the kind of experience that I don't have, I do think that making pre-season predictions about anything past the first month of the regular season is, really, pretty arbitrary.

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The Long and Winding Road

By djepperson, Section NBA
Posted on Tue Oct 10 2006 at 6:55 PM EST
More on: Utah Jazz, Andrei Kirilenko (all tags)

As the Jazz training camp begins in beautiful downtown Boise, I'm reminded of a question that's been in the back of my mind. Looking at this year's schedule, this team indeed has their work cut out for them.

The Jazz have six extended road trips this season, four of them focused on Eastern conference teams.

If the Jazz hope to break into the playoffs, these trips will be vital to achieve that goal.

Here's my question: if you had a Kirilenko `freebee,' where would you spend it?

Let us consider it together:

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