Gordon Monson: “I still can’t get used to seeing Don in a Cavs uniform. It hurts me.”
Well. The season got off to a better start than I expected and that was a nice surprise. I mean, Lauri Markkanen scoring the way he has … who expected that? Not me. He had a career average of 16.4 points coming in and look at him now, at 23.9. We might not have to suffer through the All-Star game right here in our own city with none of our players participating. That would suck.
I know. Only four players not named Wilt Chamberlain have ever scored that many points in a single game.Amazing, Doc. Should have been doing that for us, right here in SLC. If Jazz management had been that antsy back in the Malone-from-Stockton days, the team never would have gone to the Finals in consecutive seasons.If you look back at those years, you’d see that the Jazz postseason results pretty much mirrored what the Mitchell-Gobert teams were doing in the playoffs before the hatch got pulled on the whole endeavor last offseason.It is. I’ve got it right here in my notes.
There were no guarantees with the odd couple, Mitchell and Gobert. The Cavs are doing well, they’re like 18-4 at home this season, and so is Mitchell, who’s averaging nearly 30 points, five assists and shooting better than 40 percent from three, but the Wolves are behind the Jazz in the standings, so …
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