I was very close to writing an extremely reactionary posting about the Utah Jazz's awful start to the season but am glad that I decided to hold my tongue. Should have known that Sloan and Deron Williams would right the ship. Still the start of the season was all kinds of bad. Notwithstanding the two blowout losses to the Nuggets and Suns, respectively, the team had some seriously nasty mojo surrounding it during the first week. Obviously disturbed by the slow start, Deron was saying all the wrong things after the Suns game like "We don't know the offense. It's as simple as that. We don't know the offense," or "I'm not used to playing this bad and things being this difficult." I mean, he berated fresh-faced Gordon Hayward for missing a defensive rotation. How could anyone yell at this guy??
But after beating up on every pundit's darling, the Thunder tonight, everything looks better. Should have remembered that the last time the Jazz started 0-3 was the 1979-80 season. i.e. the first season in SLC. In five seasons since they have started 0-2 but always won the 3rd game. Yep, Sloan is a good coach who knows how to make adjustments. So the train is back on the tracks...for now. They should have an easy week with games against the declawed Raptors, the Curry-less Warriors and the still no good Clippers. Three games that should equal three wins. If they drop these though, all bets will be off and it will be a long season. I mean, even longer than it usually is, because it is always really long.
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