Matt Barber

@RyanQualtrics My dad would love to go. He has become a die hard mammoth fan at age 67. He got all of his boys (even me who lives in deep Dallas Stars territory) mammoth hoodies for Christmas. He texts us tusks up before every game. I don’t think he’s missed watching a game yet.

I’m hosting 8 Mammoth fans in my suite on Friday for our first home play off game ever… Who should go and why?

@crunchlabs my son’s box this month came without the right color motor wires for the omnibot forklift. The forklift does not work. How can we get the correct motor and motor wires?

@jazzmomm It is sticker shock. But I would say $50 sounds like a deal these days. My kids’ were closer to $80-$100 if i remember right.

Uhhh are high school yearbooks usually $50?!

@carriganholt @LegionHoops @ShamsCharania @flasportsbuzz My concern with some sort of lottery tournament is that the truly bad teams don’t have a very viable path to getting better.

@mbarb_ @LegionHoops @ShamsCharania @flasportsbuzz Exactly. So I’d try to find a way to minimize the number of teams tanking, like keeping it to 3-4, rather than trying to end it all together.

DEVELOPING: The NBA is discussing creating a tournament among lottery teams to determine draft order in order to stop tanking. (via @ShamsCharania, h/t @flasportsbuzz)

@carriganholt @LegionHoops @ShamsCharania @flasportsbuzz There will always be ways to game the system. No way to design it perfectly.

@carriganholt @LegionHoops @ShamsCharania @flasportsbuzz How about teams in the lottery tournament can only play players who play in a certain number of regular season games? If you sit players in the regular season, you have to sit them in the lottery tournament as well.

@JazzLead False. I think he works his way there.

True or False Ace Bailey will be in the Starting Lineup on Opening Night

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." — Henry David Thoreau

@Tjonesonthenba He is so timid and passive on the court. Reminds me of watching Dante Exum his rookie year. Only Dante had the ball in his hands so at least he was part of the play.

Man at this point I'm worried about starter potential

@JFloyd314 @PukaJimmer Aren’t P4 conference champs auto bids?

@PukaJimmer I feel like the committee would work really, really hard to keep a two-loss BYU out at all costs.

I'll go a step further - it doesn't matter even if you do win. If BYU wins out, they go to the CFP. If they don't, they don't. The rankings right now make zero difference in that calculus. A two-loss BYU is not going to get in whether they win the conference or not.

@JazzJargon Not a pepperoni, but we love using soppressata. Especially drizzled with some hot honey.

Long-term thinking eliminates a lot of poor behavior.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” ― Atticus Finch

"A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind." @naval

Listening takes courage. It takes courage to risk having to change how you see the world. It takes courage to get into someone else's mind when they see the issue differently than you. If it doesn't take courage, it's not the kind of listening that changes lives.

@CHALVIN2018 @hallsrh Agree. I thought he was in Lauri’s landing space.

KD had a hand on Lauri as he rose up, hit his shooting hand during the shot, and pushed into his landing spaces so Lauri landed on him. He fouled in three separate ways. But he grazed the ball so that’s ok?

Anyone can do it once. The best do it consistently. Anyone can order a healthy meal once. Anyone can get up early to workout once. Anyone can save more than they earn for a month. Anyone can take their partner on a date once. Anyone can write a page. Anyone can focus on one thing for an hour. Most people can’t do it consistently because they want instant gratification. Just because the results aren't immediately visible, doesn’t meant they are not accumulating. As these ordinary moments compound over weeks and months into results that are anything but ordinary. Consistently boring days make for extraordinary decades.

With the start of the new season today I’d like to start a following chain to follow as many Jazz fans as I can. Retweet this and follow other Jazz fans that have retweeted. I’ll follow back all who retweet & follow. Let’s built up the Jazz community for the new season! Go Jazz!

I journal every single morning for at least 30 minutes. I've been doing this since 2010. But over the years, I've learned you can (very easily) overcomplicate the act of journaling. Which is why now I only use 4 prompts Question #1: "What did I do yesterday?" The very first thing I do is reflect on the past 24 hours: • What did I do yesterday? • How did it feel? • What did I learn? I like this prompt because only the most important things come to mind. Pay attention. Question #2: "What am I working on?" A big part of journaling for me is repeating things I want to internalize: • Repeating goals • Repeating mindset patterns • Repeating feelings & lessons The more I repeat it in my journal, the more I think about it during the day. Question #3: "What's coming up?" Next, I look toward the future. What's around the bend? What can I start proactively processing through now? This helps prepare the mind in advance for feelings, challenges, or obstacles—and helps you not feel so "caught off guard." Question #4: "What am I grateful for?" I end every journaling session with a Thank You. I thank the path in front of me. I remind myself I am grateful for every opportunity to learn, whether it's difficult or not. And I welcome the day to come with open arms. I started journaling deliberately like this when I was 19 years old. I'd just gotten back from a rehab trip, and felt extremely lost & confused. I didn't know what I wanted out of life, or whether I would amount to much. So I wrote to myself about it. This has become my favorite part about journaling over long periods of time: You can literally see the progress in front of you. Things I journaled about when I was 19, I don't journal about anymore. I've grown out of them. Keeping a journal documents your growth as a human. I will keep this habit until the day I die. I attribute a significant portion of my success over the past 5 years to my daily journaling practice. There is no better way to hear yourself, become conscious of your thoughts, and take actionable steps forward.