Written by Spencer
| 13 November 2009
The Utah Jazz should win tonight. The 76ers have two players who can give us fits, Iguodala and Young. Together they will have to score close to 65 points for the 76ers to beat us.
Deron Williams played through some pain against the Celtics and mentioned that after he got loose his back felt much better. Deron should be fine even though he is listed as day-to-day. If you haven't read
this article over on Mathletics you should. He breaks down the numbers and gives a couple of reason why the Jazz are losing. There are a lot of similar stats over on
82games.com. Here is a plus minus chart for the Utah Jazz so far this year. These are some of the stats that back up his article.
| |
Production |
On Court/Off Court |
Simple |
| Player |
Min |
Own |
Opp |
Net |
On |
Off |
Net |
Rating |
| Kirilenko |
80% |
18.0 |
13.4 |
+4.7 |
+4.0 |
-24.4 |
+28.4 |
+14.1 |
| Fesenko |
15% |
17.7 |
12.0 |
+5.7 |
+16.7 |
-5.2 |
+21.9 |
+12.2 |
| Williams |
84% |
21.8 |
20.2 |
+1.6 |
+2.4 |
-24.0 |
+26.4 |
+11.5 |
| Matthews |
31% |
12.9 |
5.7 |
+7.3 |
-6.5 |
+0.2 |
-6.7 |
+1.7 |
| Millsap |
49% |
12.4 |
15.5 |
-3.0 |
+0.6 |
-4.2 |
+4.8 |
+0.1 |
| Koufos |
5% |
27.1 |
19.1 |
+8.0 |
-19.4 |
-0.9 |
-18.5 |
-2.6 |
| Okur |
60% |
15.3 |
18.7 |
-3.4 |
-4.5 |
+2.1 |
-6.7 |
-4.7 |
| Brewer |
74% |
12.8 |
17.0 |
-4.1 |
-3.8 |
+3.9 |
-7.7 |
-5.6 |
| Boozer |
73% |
19.4 |
23.9 |
-4.5 |
-4.1 |
+4.2 |
-8.3 |
-6.0 |
| Price |
25% |
8.7 |
25.0 |
-16.3 |
-10.3 |
+1.0 |
-11.3 |
-14.3 |
| Maynor |
5% |
10.8 |
30.5 |
-19.8 |
-65.9 |
+1.4 |
-67.2 |
-38.7 |
The Jazz have won 30 of there past 37 games against the 76ers, five of those losses were in Philly. The 76ers and Jazz have two of the top ten worst contracts in the league Brandt and AK. Brandt has been injured a ton since he left the Clippers a few years ago and AK hasn't lived up to his contract, however he looks much better so far this year.
The Jazz need to win this game to stay with the pack, these are the type of games that if we lose, kill us but if we win keep us above water at this point. The Jazz have played 10% of their games on the season and are traditional a second half team however we have to enter DEC at or above .500. After tonight, over the next seventeen days we have 7 home games that are all winnable, and two road games that will take miracles to win (Cleveland @ San Antonio).
Matchups for tonight
Utah Jazz should win 106-95
