Battle for five – Utah Jazz vs Milwaukee Bucks March 12, 2010
by jazzer on March 12, 2010
in Highlights, NBA Season
Utah Jazz and Milwaukee Bucks, each them has four winning streaks and the Jazz lost the battle. I mentioned in my last post that the Jazz needs to tighten their defense and in the match against the Milwaukee Bucks it shows. First half, the Bucks had their leads with 25-22 in the first quarter and 23-18 in the second quarter.
Jon Salmons firing away giving the bucks the edge with 24 points, and out of nowhere rookie Brandon Jennings scored 23 points. Andrew Bogut offering good offense and defense with 16 points, 12 rebounds and four blocked shots.
Milwaukee Bucks now holds the fifth place in the Eastern Conference and won their fifth winning streak.
The Jazz are a little short-handed on the other side as Andre Kirilenko left the game with injury in his left hamstring.
After the first half, this is what makes the Jazz inconsistent. Either they start slow and ended the game with progress or they start fast and ended the game with little progress. However, in this game they started slow and struggled in the end.
The Jazz and the Bucks ties in scoring in 3rd and 4th quarter, 23-23 and 24-24 leaving the Bucks lead n the first half.
John Salmons contributed big for the Bucks as his offense and defense pressured the Jazz. Carlos Boozer who tried to get fouled-counted game has the darker side of the idea. Our man Boozer got 2 technical fouls and was ejected.
The Bucks backcourt defense what makes the Bucks’ opponents not to score more than 80-90 points. For a quick info about this, Milwaukee Bucks didn’t allow their opponents score more than 80-90 points which means they have tight defense to pressure opponents.
AK scored only 3 points…
Milwaukee Bucks wins fifth straight win whereas Utah Jazz stopped at four winning streak, final score 95-87 in favor of Milwaukee Bucks.
Carlos Boozer and Mehmeh Okur contributed well like usual but Deron Williams… why oh why D-Will?! I don’t know what happen to him contributing only 6 points ?!
Player Standings
Utah Jazz – 87
Andrei Kirilenko – 3 pts (Injury)
Carlos Boozer – 26 pts / 11 rebounds
Mehmet Okur – 20 pts / 11 rebounds
Williams Matthews – 6pts / 3 rebounds
Deron Williams – 11 pts / 6 rebounds
Paul Millsap - 2 pts / 5 rebounds
CJ Miles – 17pts /4 rebounds
Milwaukee Bucks – 95
Carlos Delfino – 9 pts / 4 rebs
Luc Mbah a Moute – 4 pts / 6 rebs
Andrew Bogut – 16 pts / 12 rebounds
John Salmons – 24 pts / 5 reb
Brandon Jennings – 23 pts / 4 pts
Ersan Ilyasova – 14 pts / 8
Current Team Standings
Utah Jazz: 42-23
Milwaukee Bucks: 35-29
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