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Lindsanity – Utah Jazz Twitter Power Rankings v 5.0

Jeff Lind —  February 15, 2013 — 1 Comment

Hello Jazz fans! Just when you think you’re gonna have time to write that weekly column, you wake up and realize it’s A) February and B) 3 weeks later: Rip Van Winkle style.

So, here I am at All-Star Weekend getting ready to talk to Jeremy Evans about the dunk contest… what better time to drop in another LindList? Here are last week(ish)’s best tweets from the Jazz community:

10: @edwin_nba - The trade deadline is approaching, and the Jazz are in the thick of trade buzz. The team’s bigs are especially ripe for discussion, and although I don’t always disagree with trading a piece away (in theory), it’s plays like this one in Washington that make me think twice.

Millsap has been thinking about taking that charge since yesterday #WASatUTA — Edwin L (@edwin_nba) January 24, 2013

9: @SaltCityHoops – Jazz fans KNOW that Burks can do anything. ANYTHING, so I think we’re all more than a little shocked when he misses a couple gimmee’s from the line.

8: @jimborudding: One hashtag, so many tweets: #dunkidea

7: @LostTacoVendor – Whenever I think the broadcast crew can’t get more nonsensical…

6: @Enes_Kanter – Love is in the air, sweeties.

5: @My_Lo - Presented with no comment. Just a vigorous nod of the head.

4: @JaromMoore – A mention of church ball, and Durant in a post is SURE to guarantee pageviews in Utah, right? RIGHT?!

3: @5kl – What’s the #lindlist without a mention of Gordon’s tan (or lack thereof)? 

2: @djjazzyjody – I’m not 100% what Jody is saying here… but I am 100% sure I like it.


1: @JazzHype – Jerry Sloan stories + Fesenko = Magic.

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Lindsanity – Utah Jazz Twitter Power Rankings v 4.0

Jeff Lind —  January 17, 2013 — Leave a comment

Well, before we do anything, let me apologize. It’s been a while since the last segment of the #LindList. The holidays, flu, hospital, and general craziness that surround the new year are to blame, but I’m back and ready for action. This week’s tweets are going to be a spattering from the past month. So much has happened, that I’m not even going to attempt a theme… I’m just gonna drop my favorites on you. As a bonus, we’re going to give a TOP 15, so hang on and enjoy.

But before we get started… This:

I hear you, Jeff Ross. I hear you. Now… ON WITH THE SHOW!

15:@UTESnJAZZ – The Jazz had some brutal losses over the last month. None worse than than December 19th’s outing against the Pacers. A night that got so bad it made Mayan jokes funny for a few minutes.

14: @BeardedMangus - Did I say “none worse?” Utah at Phoenix sure felt worse. Aside from Mayan jokes, there’s very few things as terrible to watch than ugly basketball (just ask UofU Men’s Basketball fans… ZING!!).

13: @Clintonite33 - As bad as things got during the last month, there were a few bright spots. One of them came in December at ESA against the Spurs. Tim Duncan came out swinging, but Mo Williams & the Jazz pulled it off, and subsequently…

12: @DavidJSmith1232 - I completely missed David’s origination of this hashtag, but no one could escape the ripple effects of it. Jazz fans had an absolute heyday with it as the Jazz crumbled down the stretch in Atlanta.

11: @sluhm - The “Big East.”

10: @5kl - Presented without comment.

9: @monilogue - As if Jazz fans needed another reason to whine about minutes. Thanks for this, Moni.

8:@da_breezman - But seriously… that Indiana game was terrible.

7: @the20thmaine – Another bright spot in the sea of awful Jazz basketball that was the past month was the Miami game.

6: @jazzhype - Speaking of Miami and Hayward’s hypothetical trash talk (that’s what we were talking about, right?)…

5: @saltcityhoops - Root Sports, everybody! Give ‘em a hand.

4: @tribjazz - Have I mentioned how terrible the Indiana game was yet?

3: @PaigeSauer - Gordon Hayward can never leave Salt Lake. Ever. What will we do without tweets like this?

2: @DJJazzyJody - [Insert joke about how horrific the Indiana game was... again. Because it was beyond terrible, and this tweet is funnier than anything I can produce right now.]

1: @LostTacoVendor - Never mind. There ARE a couple themes in this week’s power rankings.

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Lindsanity – Utah Jazz Twitter Power Rankings v 3.0

Jeff Lind —  December 13, 2012 — Leave a comment

What a great week to be a Jazz fan! In the last addition of Lindsanity, the Jazz were an even 10-10, but since then they’ve ripped off three more strong wins and are currently sitting at 6th in the west with a 13-10 record. Anytime the Jazz beat the Lakers and Spurs in one week, you know the world may truly end, but if it does Jazz nation will go out with a smile on our collective face.

Anyway, Without further ado, here are this week’s Jazz Twitter Power Rankings:

10: @davidjsmith1232 - Sometimes the national media writes ridiculous articles that seem to imply that small market teams are always ready to toss chemistry aside, and bend over backward to accommodate crummy trades from league heavyweights. Well, we’ve been going to this high school for seven and a half years. We’re no dummies.

9: @shedeletes – It was a late game for local fans, but for those of us living in more easternly time zones, it was really late. Today we all pay the price (I feel like I’ve been walking around in a fog of giddy Mo Williams hallucinations). Glad I take a bus to work, and don’t have to operate heavy machinery. #wortheverysecond

8: @Lockedonsports - I asked this question (via twitter) last night: “If you were gonna buy one Jazz jersey today… Which player would you get?” I got a lot of responses (most of them were terrible… I’m looking at you, @itschappy), but the one I liked the most was from @jazzhype. Why? because it was for DeMarre Carroll… who is a total boss. Preach Locke!

7: @_alexisholt - Being a dedicated Jazz fan is a unique familial experience, so when you labor nearly 5 hours to add a member to our Isle of Misfit Toys, you get a place on the Power Rankings! Congratulations to Alexis and the newest member of our Jazz-clan, Felix. Have I mentioned that it’s a great week to be a Jazz fan?

6: @5kl - There was a minute there where I thought a shotclock operator was going to get choked out. It was a surly crowd in ESA last night, and people looked ready to grab their pitchforks. Luckily, Kris has a solution to the clock guy’s problem:

5: @CowhideGlobe - Losing to the Spurs isn’t a foreign concept to the Jazz, but why does it always seem to come at the hands of one red hot Spur?

4: @shandonfan - Seriously, shandonfan… seriously.

3: @DJJazzyJody - My favorite non-game storyline this week was the one where Jody outed a John Stockton Twitter fake because of his hollow non-Stockton-like swagger. Not on our watch, @johnstocktonpg. Not on John Stockton day (12/12/12)!!!! The world’s a safer place today than it was yesterday.

2: @LostTacoVendor - Any normal week, the Vendor would have taken home #1 honors with this gem:

1: @Doug_Cartwright – …but this is no normal week. This is the week that the Jazz emerged as a serious threat to teams in the Western Conference, the week that the Jazz slayed some dragons, and the week where some dude (I assume Doug Cartwright) strings several words & names together into a sentence that may or may not actually mean something!

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Dropped from the list: @AllThatAmar (3), @SaltCityHoops (4), @tribjazz (5), @UTESnJAZZ (7), @andyblarsen (8), @My_Lo (9), @monilogue (10)

Others receiving votes: @nickyjam21 155, @JazzHype 111, @jazzedUteman 26, @mharpring15 1

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Lindsanity – Utah Jazz Twitter Power Rankings v 2.0

Jeff Lind —  December 7, 2012 — Leave a comment

What a week! Since the last Lindsanity post, our (then) 9-7 Utah Jazz have dropped three of four (one being a brutal one point loss at the hands of the Clippers), and are now dead even in the W/L at 10-10. Hopefully this week’s awesome group of tweets will improve morale and give the team some additional luck going into a tough slate of games. And here they are: This week’s top 10 tweets from Jazz Nation.

10: @monilogue – From one of my favorite Jazz bloggers and fans, Moni knows the order of operations when it comes to Jazz fandom: 1) Jazz 2) Jerry Sloan 3) buttering me up (somehow my brother ended up sitting next to Jerry Sloan at the Jazz/Clips game… with no good stories to show for it).

9: @My_Lo - It was easy to pile on the refs after the Clippers loss, but blaming a giant blown lead on officiating is a bad look, and Mychal (who’s never scared of dishing out unpopular opinions) spat truth here.

8: @andyblarsen – SAYING THAT… Chauncey-freaking-flopping-Billups. Preach Andy:

7: @UTESnJAZZ – First timer to the list, Chris says it like it was/is… because SRSLY Bavetta: Chris, Howard Eisley, and I still haven’t forgiven you.

6: @5kl – Has anyone figured out the method to Corbin’s rotational madness? I haven’t, and with a Favors injury and back spasms on the Al front, I don’t know if we will any time soon.

5: @tribjazz - Most of the tweets on this list only made me laugh as a defense mechanism against all the Bavetta/Billups pain, but this gem had me cleaning soda off my screen after I read it, which is what vaulted Mr. Oram to the 5th spot as a first week entrant.

4: @SaltCityHoops (7) - Like I said last week, it’s all about the subtleties with SaltCityHoops. He knows the idiosyncracies of the Utah Jazz fanbase & organization, and keeps an eye out for interesting microcosms of our unique culture. You say it best when you say nothing at all, Spencer. #FisherLiedGirls

3: @AllThatAmar (5) – Witnessing a player go from a scorching FG% of .727 to a horrific .147 within a week can drive a man to drink.

2: @LostTacoVendor (4) – Because I’m still not over it, and I don’t think anyone could have put it into better words.

1: @DJJazzyJody (2) – And speaking of tweets regarding flops, taking over the top spot this week is Jody, who depresses me to no end with this:

 

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Dropped from the list: @CowhideGlobe (1), @Neildos (3), @JazzmanJoey (6), @lockedonsports (8), @Enes_Kanter (9), @clintonite33 (10)

Others receiving votes: @CowhideGlobe 109, @davidjsmith1232 89, @JazzHoops 32, @mharpring15 1

 

 

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Lindsanity – Utah Jazz Twitter Power Rankings

Jeff Lind —  November 29, 2012 — 3 Comments

We’re starting a new column this week that turns the tables on Power Rankings. As fans, we spend a lot of time critiquing players, coaches, fan bases, front & back offices, and even the fandom of upper vs. lower decks. Frankly, it’s ridiculous… so why not take it to the next level? It’s time to rank YOU. There’s no method to this madness, except that I own executive privileged on voting. I’m going to be doing this every week for the rest of the season, so bring it.

10: @Clintonite33 – Rarely do you find a blogger that tweets and writes harder, longer, or more gratuitously than Clint. He’s a staple in the twitter Jazz community because no piece of basketball news, stat, or quote escapes his all-seeing gaze. Always up for a discussion, Clint is a good guy to have on your radar (unless you’re the type that easily gets baited into a flame war). An all around good dude that keeps Jazzdom’s collective knee-jerk in check… whether you like it or not.

9: @Enes_Kanter - The big man with the big personality. Enes is the kind of player that Jazz fans glom onto: a hard-working gym rat with a larger than life attitude, some real basketball skill, and a desire to overshare. This particular tweet is nothing special… except for the hashtag. That’s the kind of stuff that ensures you a lifetime supply of free diet cokes in the SLC valley.

8: Speaking of work, have you met @lockedonsports? Hard to call yourself a Jazz fan if you don’t follow the man, and there’s good reason for it. He’s always locked in (BOOM!), digging through stats and basketball jargon to give the fan a smarter experience. Mr. Locke is a consummate pro, and a media guy that actually cares about the team and presenting sports the right way.

7: @saltcityhoops - I know, I know… feels like I’m just kissing the ring here, but nobody serves up the subtleties of being in and around the Jazz locker room and organization better than Spencer. Always entertaining, always a pro, and always spot on in analysis (hey… one of these days I’ll need a raise). His timely observations are always appreciated.

6: @JazzmanJoey - If I mention Deron Williams in this intro, can we consider this tweet Jazz related enough to warrant a power spot? Oh, yes.

5: @AllThatAmar - Pretty sure that Amar spends half of his life in Twitter Jail, but when he’s out roaming the digital badlands, he delivers some gems. He’s a volume tweeter to be sure and he takes a lot of shots, but when he’s on, he’s on.

4: @LostTacoVendor – Full of snark, vinegar, and generally reporting from a strip club, the Vendor knows his audience. He hates all of you, and you love him back for it. Short on patience but long on his vitriol for front office bureaucracy & players who mail it in.

3: @Neildos - Because I can’t get enough second-hand Jerry Sloan folklore. Ever.

2: @DJJazzyJody - The Deseret News Jazz Beat Writer is always a darling of Jazz tweeters, and rightfully so. Not afraid to take a stand on fan-issues (booing cheerleaders?), he just gets twitter, how fans want to consume it, and what they want to hear from their locker-room reporters. Jody always delivers the news respectfully, but doesn’t take himself too seriously. It’s a good mix.

1: @CowhideGlobe (@lauremonoto with the bump/set) – Because sometimes people tweet rad things that are right on so many levels.

So that’s it for this week’s Twitter Power Rankings! What did you think? What did I miss? Who should I be following that I’m currently missing? Tweet me, DM me, hit me up… I’ll see you next week.

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Others receiving votes: @SurlyMae 123, @5kl 105, @jazzhype 80, @mharpring15 1

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