Sunday, August 3, 2008

Fans' Choice

The NBA Draft is over and done with. The Rocky Mountain Revue is a thing of the past. Free Agency never really arrived. Despite a relatively quiet off season, there are many great topics still to discuss. Here are a few ideas our blogger-staff has compiled over the past few weeks that have not yet been discussed in our blog. In order to maximize blogger interest and participation, I'll let the blogger's choose the next article to be written.

Here are the choices:

1. Olympic Preview - Once again, the Jazz will be the best represented team in Beijing this summer. While Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer look to bring home the gold, Andrei Kirilenko has earned one of the greatest honors any citizen can have; Andrei will lead his country into Olympic Stadium while carrying the Russian Flag...

2. NBA All-Salary Cap Team - It could be argued that no sport has been as effected by a Salary Cap as much as the NBA. In Major League Baseball, large markets dominate the national media. Teams like the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Angels boast payrolls into the hundreds of millions of dollars. While the New York Knicks have the highest payroll in the NBA. As a result, the Knicks will be cursed by bad salaries for years to come. With that in mind, The Salt Palace blogger-staff has come up with an All-Star team that works under the salary cap...

3. Statistical Review of 2007-08 - Using complex statistics (Regression Analysis), the Salt Palace Blog has evaluated the performance of every Utah Jazz player, broken down by minute, to find the highest producing, most-consistent players of the 2007-08 season...

4. Trade Partners - In regards to the Jazz off season, Kevin O'Connor recently said "We're done with signing, probably, any free agents...But, we're certainly not done continuing to look at working our roster to improve ourselves." What O'Connor meant to say was "We missed out on our Free Agents, but we are discussing trade opportunities". Sharing O'Connor's enthusiasm, the Salt Palace blogger-staff has come up with the top 5 trade opportunities you haven't thought of...

5. College Football Preview - The Jazz will always be #1 in the hearts of their fans, but the Salt Palace blogger-staff also takes an interest in the surrounding community and athletic programs. With College Football approaching rapidly, the Utah Utes and BYU Cougers look primed to make noise on the national level. However, at least one of these teams may be more vulnerable than most realize. Let's start with the Cougars...

Now let's hear from the readers. Which article(s) would you like us to next write about?

Go Jazz!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Trade parteners is my first choice. I would also like some college football preview if you've got left over time.....

MC--Seattle

Anonymous said...

Trade partners please. Great job with the blog. Keep it up!

Anonymous said...

regression analysis is the way to go. us normal people can think of trades, but we need someone to do the math for us. i'm not that smart.

Lay-UN Smith's said...

I would like to see your breakdown of the Western Conference for the upcoming season, Team by Team.....It would be a lot of work, but I'd love to see it.

-SS