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2 Months Utah Jazz Tyrone Corbin singled out Al Jefferson as a main reason behind Utah's recent success. "He's a huge part of the success that we've been having here of late," Corbin said. Jefferson just won Western Conference Player of the Week by averaging 19.8 points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.2 steals while the Jazz went 4-0, and Jefferson's team has now won five straight in large part due to his performance. Corbin also pointed to Jefferson's defense when praising the big man. | 2 Months Utah Jazz Al Jefferson had 25 points, nine rebounds, two steals and two blocks in Wednesday's easy win over the Suns. The Suns don't have a true center and Enes Kanter went down with a separated shoulder tonight, both of which worked in Jefferson's favor. On a night when very little went right for half the fantasy owners still alive in the playoffs, Jefferson's bounce back from a slump has to be considered a bright spot. Let's see if he can do it again on Friday at Portland. | 2 Months Utah Jazz Al Jefferson played 27 minutes vs. the Mavericks, scoring 15 points on 6-of-12 FGs and 3-of-4 FTs, with three rebounds, zero assists and one block. Big Al has been in a funk for the entire month of March, averaging a season-low 14.3 points on 42.7 percent FGs and 57.1 percent FTs, with 8.4 boards and 0.9 blocks. This was the first time in seven games that he's hit at least half of his shots, but it's not advisable to bench him as Utah heads toward back-to-back four-game weeks. | 2 Months Utah Jazz Al Jefferson hit just 9-of-23 shots in Friday's overtime loss, but still managed a hefty 18 points, 13 rebounds, three steals and two blocks in 42 minutes. As usual, the Jazz fell into the trappings of overfeeding their lumbering big man, who had five of his shots blocked and didn't make it to the foul line once. This led to yet another loss, but Ty Corbin has strapped himself to the anchor and is heading out to sea. | 2 Months Utah Jazz Al Jefferson appeared slowed by his ankle injury vs. the Knicks, scoring just seven points on 3-of-9 shooting with seven rebounds in 25 minutes. He was coming off a moderate sprain and this was the second of back-to-back games, so we'll cut him some slack. The loss dropped Utah into a virtual tie with the Lakers for the eight seed in the West, and we expect Big Al to come out firing vs. Greg Monroe and the Pistons on Monday. | 2 Months Utah Jazz Al Jefferson (ankle) returned to action in Friday's loss to the Bulls, scoring 23 points on 10-of-16 shooting with six rebounds, three assists and three blocks in 30 minutes. Jefferson starts a stretch of four games in six nights including tonight's game, and he has a little bit of Wesley Matthews and Paul Millsap in him in terms of playing through injury. In other words, he's a warrior. Owners will want to make sure he's feeling good going forward, but we haven't heard anything to suggest he won't go on Saturday. | 2 Months Utah Jazz Al Jefferson (ankle) will play in Friday's game against the Bulls. Jefferson practiced on Thursday, went through the morning shootaround and says his sprained ankle is in fine shape. He'll immediately return to the starting lineup next to Paul Millsap, capping the potential of impressive bench bigs Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors. Jefferson is safe to plug back into all fantasy squads. | |
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