The Jazz had been so good lately and things started out great tonight. Unfortunately for the Jazz, things didn’t end well. The Jazz lost after leading by as many as 17 points.
I am actually stunned that they lost. Without Dwayne Wade, the Heat are the tpe of team the Jazz love to beat up on. And after jumping out to a big lead, I really thought they would walk away with an easy victory. Apparently so did the Jazz and they played the second half as if they had already won the game.
Oh well, I guess. I would prefer that they win all of their games, but that is not reasonable. They are pretty much locked into the fourth seed in the West and I have to learn to live with that.
I am very interested to see how they bounce back tomorrow in Orlando. That will be one of the classic Sloan “character” games.
March 14th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
I was dissapointed as well, but also kind of releived. When you are hot like they were, sure you play with a chip on your shoulder, but eventually that chip hurts you. (mavs undermined the warriors) we got ahead early and relaxed, and Walker happened to have is “once a year be good game” and we paid for it. Kind of a wake up call.
I will be interested to see how we handle the Magic tonight, especially since they were one of the teams that beat us early in the season.
March 14th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I can’t say I mind the loss either. Better now than later. Though they haven’t had Wade, the Miami Heat have won seven straight and are now moving up in the playoff seedings. The only reason to be disappointed would be because we had a large lead, not because the Heat didn’t play well.
March 15th, 2007 at 9:44 am
I am posting the morning after the loss to Orlando and both of these losses are extremely discouraging because of what it is going to mean for our first round playoff appearance. The teams that the Jazz struggle with are ones with dominant big men–Shaq, Dwight Howard–because they do not match up well defensively. Teams have a hard time matching our more athletic outside shooting big guys but we can’t stop theres.
These last two games, I hope, haven’t exposed a major weakness of the Jazz that could be our downfall in the first round against Houston.–Lakers anyone???