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37-39, Second, Northwest ............. 33-43, Fifth, Southwest


....................The Delta Center, Salt Lake City

Monday, April 10th, 7:00. Televised on League Pass, KJZZ and FSNSW.

The Utah Jazz


Memo Okur............ Carlos Boozer...........Matt Harpring...... Andrei Kirilenko........ Deon Williams
Oyak Renault.............Duke ...............Georgia Tech.........CSKA Moscow.............Illinois

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Coach: Jerry Sloan

The Houston Rockets


.... Yao Ming.......... Keith Bogans......... Juwan Howard ......... Rafer Alston........ Luther Head

Coach: Jeff Van Gundy.

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The Rockets aren't as bad as, say, the Knicks, Blazers, Bobcats or Hawks--but it's so close as to make no never mind. Minus TMac, this team just doesn't win, the huge presence of Yao notwithstanding. Absent a collective Jazz mental collapse, this is a gimme

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Yao goes out in the first quarter looking like agony personified. That ankle he hurt last night is really killing him. Mutumbo in....which is worse than having Yao around, IMO.

Laurie

[AK-47]

Originally Posted by endora60

Yao goes out in the first quarter looking like agony personified. That ankle he hurt last night is really killing him. Mutumbo in....which is worse than having Yao around, IMO.

Laurie

harpring was a victim of the elbow already.

[AK-47]

Kirilenko saved the day by blocking a shot and giving the ball to the rockets poor free throw shooter.

[Rednecksbasketball]

well the jazz got the win, but Im kinda disapointed that they floundered down the strech and let the Rockets back in it.

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Originally Posted by AK-47

Kirilenko saved the day by blocking a shot and giving the ball to the rockets poor free throw shooter.

Yeah, that was fantastic. AK so rocks. Bet that kid feels like total dirt right now--couldn't even make one of the two freebies.

And what was van Gundy whining about there at the end, anyway? Howard's three was so obviously after the buzzer, it wasn't even worth trying to make a case for.

Dikembe Mutumbo is a menace, even being three hundred and fourteen years old. Matt looks like something out of a boxing movie or a minor league hockey game.

Still....This was a lot closer than it should've been. Worrisome.

Laurie

[AK-47]

the post game, listen to sloan. It sums it up niceley.

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Originally Posted by AK-47

the post game, listen to sloan. It sums it up niceley.

I missed it. What'd he say?

Laurie

[AK-47]

Originally Posted by endora60

I missed it. What'd he say?

Laurie

No defense, that you can see that they got 50+ points in the paint. The jazz played no defense at all, not even a little bit. 50+ points with no yao or tmac. That's why we almost lost.