The Jazz are playing terrible basketball. After their ugly play in January, I thought they had overcome their worse stretch of the year. It is apparent however that they are in the midst of their worst basketball since the middle of last season.

Who can blame them though? I personally feel that the wind was taken out of their sales when they blew the 17 point lead against the Heat. If you remember, at the time they had come off their second great run of the season having gone 20-5 in their previous 25 games. Since then, they have played uninspired ball.

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While reading the latest issue of Sporting News, I encountered the following snippet:

Has anyone noticed that the Rockets are a terrible come-from-behind team? Houston is 1-20 in games it has trailed entering the fourth quarter.

Hopefully, the Jazz can take advantage of this statistic. Not only have the Jazz made some great comebacks, they’ve lost many large leads as well. The Jazz need to take a strong lead (10-15 points) and try to maintain it until the fourth quarter begins.
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