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Is Okur out or something?

Anyway, Utah's gonna be a test of interior defense, since Boozer is a fairly strong inside presence. Kirilenko is a stat machine, but he has trouble creating for himself and hasn't been a particularly dangerous range shooter. Deron Williams hasn't been shooting the three very well so far, but he can still be fairly dangerous. Okur's going to have to be guarded in some way, he's just too good a shooter.

The key to us winning is rebounds, this team's frontcourt is great at snatching rebounds, especially on the offensive end. However, they still foul like mad (it's a Jerry Sloan team, after all), so hopefully we can get to the line for some easy points. They're also a tunrover prone team, but we're not great at forcing turnovers. Utah strikes me as more dangerous than most people are giving them credit for, and everyone is healthy right now. I think we could easily lose this one.