Deron Williams does not want your MVP Chants

He must not want them. When he got sent to the free throw line on Monday, the disturbing trend of starting MVP chants for any team's best player (and sometimes best 2 players) renewed itself in Salt Lake. He shot six free throws under "MVP" pressure......missed three of them. It was embarassing and hopefully the Jazz fans reconsider how they recognize their best player. Makes me wonder how the Miami and LA fans gave Shaq the MVP chant. For this reason, I'm suggesting the following rules for MVP Chants.

Under no circumstance will an MVP chant start unless......
1.Your player has previously won an MVP award
2. Your team is over .500
3.Your player is at least mentioned on TV spots when commentators discuss who the MVP is.

Other notes on the Jazz game

1. The sheer quantity of Korver jerseys in the audience is astounding, mostly on adolescent females (although I did see one teenage boy wearing one, disturbing....). White Korver jerseys, dark blue Korver jerseys, T-Shirt Korver jerseys, Pink Korver jerseys. Unbelievable. Never thought I'd see the day where the 8th player in a rotation inspired such fan hysteria.
2. The Jazz commit no fouls.......ever. Yeah right. You'd think the fans would realize that they are the team that commits the most fouls in the league for a reason. They like to play physical, hacking basketball. Not at the ESA, where any call against the Jazz results in an explosion of anger. That probably happens at every arena except in Phoenix, where the fans are too laid back to get upset about every foul because their real team is in Chicago or Boston.
3. Lion in oil observed that Kyle Korver can play some killer defense, as evidenced here. http://lioninoil.blogspot.com/2008/03/dont-ever-queston-kyle-korvers.html Seeing it in person on Monday night was three times as awesome.
4. Houston can't win a series with Utah. Not this year.

Anyway, it was a fun game, made even better by the banquet I enjoyed before the game in the bowels of the arena. Delicious.

A few Suns notes It was the Suns who finally determined the West's playoff teams. After their defeat of Golden State, the Nuggets were in and the Warriors were out. We can't fall lower than 6th, which is where we are right now, and we could conceivably get up to fourth, I think. Everyone has got to be hoping to play Houston right now. We could get Houston, SA or Utah, and I like our chances against all three. We'll see how it all shakes out.