Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets NBA Playoffs 2010 Game 6

A hard fought battle….

“We don’t want to travel back to Pepsi Center, Denver”

“We don’t want Game 7”

“We want to win”

These are the mindset I saw when Utah Jazz wins NBA Playoffs 2010 Game 6 against Denver Nuggets, in the eyes of Paul Millsap, Ronnie Price, Carlos Boozer with his amazing 22 points and 20 rebounds (18 of those are defensive rebounds), and Deron Williams… all I can say WOW. The match were very physical and hard fought, just as the closing seconds of the match Deron Williams got injured after a pick and roll play and he hurt his left wrist. I hope you are okay D.

Deron Williams didn’t score as much as he did in Game 6, because the overall team scored was distributed evenly to the Utah Jazz players. Everyone contributed nicely and they played as a team today. Deron Williams scored only 14 points and 10 assists, it’s Wesley Matthews who is in the red carpet today with his 23 points topping Boozer’s 22 points.

Denver Nuggets’ Chauncey Billups scored 30 points, Carmelo Anthony with 20 points and Joey Graham joined them with 21 points to pressure Utah Jazz. However, suffice to say that Utah Jazz wanted more this year.

Utah Jazz will be facing again the LA Lakers. Last year, NBA 2009 Playoffs Utah Jazz fought LA Lakers and ended easily with Playoffs score 4-1.

Here’s the recap of NBA 2009 Playoffs (Utah Jazz vs LA Lakers)

Game 1 (Sunday, April 19)

Jazz – 100

Lakers – 113

Game 2 (Tuesday, April 21)

Jazz – 109

Lakers – 119

Game 3 (Thursday, April 23)

Lakers – 86

Jazz – 88

Game 4 (Saturday, April 25)

Lakers – 108

Jazz – 94

Game 5 (Monday, April 27)

Jazz – 96

Lakers – 107

The face off of two great point guards are bound to happen again, with Deron Williams that finally matured to be a veteran player expect for another wild show of NBA 2010 Playoffs.

Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets Game 3 and Game 4 reviews/recaps

Denver Nuggets vs Utah Jazz Game 3 – Utah Jazz wins / 2-1

Final Game Scores -  105 – 93

Okay, the image is still not enough how all Utah Jazzer Fans can describe our smirks (or smiles). Monumental game when Deron Williams still have the  batteries to lead his team mates in winning against the Denver Nuggets at Energy Solutions Arena.

Paul Millsap with career high of 22 pts and 19 boards is just what our Utah Jazz needs. The bench guys  such as CJ Miles, Wesley Mathews and of course Paull Millsap should really step up and I do believe & have faith in them that they can do what. Andrei Kirilenko still out of the question when he’ll be able to play again and Carlos Boozer seems to be not in his top shape after the his rib injury.

Millsap was great in the first half owning 18 points already with 100% accuracy (9/9 shooting). I guess the Nuggets didn’t expect Paul to be a threat why he subbed for Memo.

Denver Nugget’s ball movement isn’t good during at the time thus D-will took advantage, he took a lot of steals with weak passes and finish it off immediately. In spite of the double defense given to D-Will he had his usual averages, he scored 24 points and 10 assists.

Me and my buddy, lockenload got very wild and emptied more beer than was expected. But we didn’t end up like this guy:

Denver Nuggets vs Utah Jazz Game 4 – Utah Jazz wins 3-1

Final Game Scores – 117 – 106

Eliminate Denver in Game 5, that’s what all Jazzer fans wanted after D-Will, Fesenko, CJ Miles and Paul Millsap carry on a good game.

I bet Utah Jazz realized now that there’s no stopping now, it’s now or never or all of their efforts will be in vain. So just keep pushing guys and hopefully we’ll grab the championship this year.

The Denver Nuggets started strong, but there is still one problem you must not do when visiting the Jazz in their home court… Ball Movement.

Coach Jerry Sloan do made some risky decisions before but it all comes together and it was very effective in this NBA 2010 Playoffs. Jerry was right in having his reserves step and even they lost the game during the NBA Regular Season. CJ, Paul, Kyrylo and the rest of the reserved did a very, very good job in stepping up in the playoffs.

I can’t wait for Game 5.

If Deron Williams’ twitter is still activate, he have been flooded with “wow” messages. Keep it up Will!

Utah Jazz 2010 Playoffs

Utah Jazz concludes their regular season loosing to Phoenix Suns, a nasty way to end the season after a big win (yet controversial) 140-139 win over Oklahoma City Thunder. Now Utah Jazz falls off to seed 6 facing Denver Nuggets early to start in the NBA Playoffs 2010.

The Jazz got no energy when they faced the Suns, it’s just torture to watch to see Jazz depleted and settle for the sixth seed (if not mistaken). Carlos Boozer who was reported to have hurt his rib cage, thus lessen Utah Jazz power in  defense as well in offense. Deron Williams was good but not great during that match, I know he did his usual score stats but I felt there’s no energy in the game.

Utah Jazz have been good as well as lucky at home, and the Phoenix Suns didn’t take the chance slip away seeing Jazz missing more men like Carlos Boozer and Andrei Kirilenko because of injuries.

Few more hours from now, Utah Jazz will attempt to snatch the first win in the NBA Playoffs. It’ll be hard, everyone knows this as Denver Nuggets wields good scores on their shoulders plus it’s already a home court advantage till Game 2.

It’ll be no rest for everyone playing in the NBA 2010 playoffs…

Enter Playoffs

The match between Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz overwhelmed the whole basketball fan community as Kevin Durant and Deron Williams fought hard to improve their team standings as well as proving the whole world that:

… the Thunder’s can beat our Jazz either on their home or on the road…

Or

… the Jazz can beat the Thunder…

Utah Jazz failed to defeat Oklahoma Thunder four times in a row, the last attempt was in Oklahoma’s home-court. See post: Oklahoma City Thunder achieves five winning streaks, back to back lost for the Utah Jazz. The young Oklahoma Thunder wielding one of NBA’s young and top scorer Kevin Durant

Utah Jazz defeats Oklahoma City Thunder at home – Hard fought Overtime

Finally, Utah Jazz ended Oklahoma’s winning streak on them at last. It should have been “Oklahoma City Thunder’s Five Winning Streak against Utah Jazz”.

The game ended 140-139 in favor of the Jazz upon reaching overtime period. Even when the game started a lot of contacts occurred, 78 fouls accumulated and this is a combined foul count for both teams.

It was physical

It was brutal

Almost a lot of fouls wasn’t called… thus the preview of the upcoming playoff games.

Both teams show no mercy in defense and offense, 1^st quarter won by the Utah Jazz by 32-29.

Followed by Oklahoma hammering shots from the arc making Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2^nd quarter by making 36 points against 31 points of the Utah Jazz.

Utah Jazz says no-no as this is our home-court, making 34 points in the 3^rd quarter against 29 points of the Thunder. Deron Williams, Mehmet Okur, Carlos Boozer and the rest of the team don’t want to fail the fans. CJ Miles and Wesley Matthews were astounding too, CJ guarding Kevin Durant is good but could have been better to pressure Kev’s scoring prowess.

But Kevin Durant, you have my respects as you push yourself to put Oklahoma City Thunder to play more minutes in overtime against Utah Jazz.

Overtime – The Controversial No-Call Foul

Now here’s where all the controversy started, after Deron Williams hit a jumper making the score 140-139 there is still 1.1 seconds left. Oklahoma City Thunder called the timeout so that the ball will be inbound inside their half court. The pass is made to Kevin Durant, CJ Miles barely made it in guarding Kevin. He jumped and then CJ jumped… Kevin’s 3-point jumper elevates vertically, CJ tries to block the shot and Kevin Durant threw very short loosing the game for the Oklahoma Thunder.

I tried to watch the play in different videos and angles; at first I thought it was a foul too. I felt the Thunder’s disappointment as I don’t want this to happen too to our Jazz especially the playoffs are coming.

First video I watch is at nba.com, even the sports analyst agreed it was a foul:

Then I try to dig more videos elsewhere, here’s from fsthunder:

Here’s a video from ballhype, titled “Jazz Cheat Thunder…You be the Judge (video):

It’s hard to spot, the angles looked like CJ Miles did some make some body contact, as a video buff myself I get a hold all of the videos then slow-mo`ed each one. Then I finally see what the ref saw, here’s the screenshot:

CJ Miles did have the ball in hand, no body contact and Kevin Durant faked like he got some contacts.

CJ Miles had his left hand on to his belly, while the right hand managed to touch the ball. Kevin Durant made it looked he’d been touched by flopping.

I did managed to see this key points by one of the commenter’s of the video.

1. he got ball before he hit the hand.
2. even if he didn’t get ball, hand on hand should never be called a foul when a guy is attempting to block a jump shot.
3. there was no body contact.
4. Kevin Durant flopped like a fish trying to make the refs decide the game. This was the best part of the call, the ref was like “look dude, don’t look at me to help you win this game do it yourself”.
   phenomenal call.

I’m a man, fan of the Jazz. But I don’t like biased judgments too so I research thoroughly and figure out on my own. I want the Jazz win clean, and throughout my time as a fan I know one thing for sure that each team members of the Utah Jazz fights cleanly.

Here’s a little word for all other Jazz fans, keep “fan etiquette” in mind. As Caled Hicks mentioned his Do’s and Don’t, be a good sport guys. Hope to have this too from the Oklahoma City Thunder fans, especially Kevin Durant fans (winks).

The playoffs are coming, and not only Utah Jazz will have to problem the Thunders’, there’s also LA Lakers where the Jazz had their lost with them too as well. April 2 Utah Jazz visits LA Lakers

I agree with Jeff Winget’s “The Myth of Lengh” article in Jazzbots.com, Lakers petrifies the Jazz and the Jazz needs to snap out of it. They are good, both in offense and defense even we are missing Andrei Kirilenko. Stop being a Superman guys and don’t be afraid of the Kryptonite.

Finally, if you missed the after game interview check out Salt Lake Tribute’s video:

I agree with JR Stewart too that NBA should change for Better Rules Interpretation, let the NBA Players keep it real inside the court. Again for the Jazz fans as well as the Oklahoma Thunder fans, let’s drop the no-call issue. The game is superb, a great preview of the upcoming playoffs.

Tired Jazz | Utah Jazz vs Houston Rockets (113-96)

The win against Houston Rockets is essential but the Utah Jazz were too tired to match against the Rockets, Deron Williams with only 12 points, CJ Miles did good with his 12, Carlos Boozer did good with his 18, Mehmet Okur didn’t deliver money with his 9 points, Wesley Matthews was just awful dead tired I guess (who wouldn’t after guarding Kevin Durant) he got no point during that match in his 27 minutes in the game. Paul Millsap with 13 points and Kyle Korver with only 10 points. This is not the usual Utah Jazz team member scores, no one hits 20 above score.

Three players of Houston Rockets, the trio made 20s namely Luis Scola with 24 points, Kevin Martin with 28 points and Aaron Brooks with 28 points also.

The game ends 113-96 in favor of the Houston Rockets, falling the Utah Jazz to the number two seed against 51-27 team standing of the Denver Nuggets. Utah Jazz’s team stand falls short with 1 lost 51-28.

D-Will behind pass to Mehmet Okur 3-point shot | Utah Jazz vs Oklahoma Thunder

Oklahoma Thunder vs Utah Jazz Overtime

Oklahoma Thunder vs Utah Jazz Overtime Video Recap

A contest of passing, Kobe Bryant vs Deron Wililams

Utah Jazz vs LA Lakers

Kobe Bryant no look over the shoulder assist to Lamar Odom for the layup vs Utah Jazz

Deron Williams perfect baseball pass to assist Wesley Matthews for the dunk vs Los Angeles Lakers

I’m not being biased by this, but Deron’s passing is much better

Utah Wins | Golden State Warriors vs Utah Jazz

Utah Jazz wins against Golden State Warriors 128-104

Game hosted in : Energy Solutions Arena

GSW	26	23	29	26	104
UTA	40	36	30	22	128

Team Standings

Golden State Warriors moves down with 21 wins and 53 losses, Golden State Warriors have lost to Utah Jazz since

Utah Jazz moves up with 50 wins and 26 losses, currently no.1 in Northwest Division Western Conference, Utah Jazz will be visiting the LA Lakes tomorrow April 2, 2010 and will be facing Oklahoma Thunder again on April 6.

Player Stats for this game:

Golden State Warriors

Reggie Williams (F) – 12 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist

Anthony Tolliver (F) – 17 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists

Chris Hunter (C) – 5 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist

Corey Maggette (G) – 22 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists

Stephen Curry (G) – 15 points, 2 rebounds and 6 assists

Off the bench players:

Devean George – 3 points, 2 rebounds

Anthony Morrow – 21 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist

CJ Watson – 9 points, 3 rebounds

Utah Jazz

CJ Miles (F) – 8 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists

Carlos Boozer (F) – 25 points, 13 rebounds and 2 assists

Mehmet Okur (C) – 18 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists

Wesley Matthews (G) – 18 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assists

Deron Williams (G) – 8 points, 3 rebounds and 19 assists

Off the bench players:

Paul Millsap – 19 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists

Kyle Korver – 21 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists

Ronnie Price – 2 points and 3 assists

Othyus Jeffers – 5 points, 2 rebounds

Kosta Koufos – 2 points, 1 rebound

Sundiata Gaines – 2 assists

Kyrylo Fesenko – 2 points

No mercy

This is what the Utah Jazz should do on all of their upcoming games. Andrei Kirilenko is still out because of Left Calf injury however the reserves are doing well.  Deron Williams, tallied 19 assists for his season high while Carlos Boozer enjoying to put it inside the bucket.

Kyle Korver did well in this game as well, Paul Millsap is great with is defense and offense.

Golden State Warriors, however did have a lot of injured players keeping them heavy even before the game have started. Four players have been reported injured or sick, Monta Ellis and Ronny Turiaf both suffers with flu.

Vladimir Radmanovic with sore right Achilles, ouch…

And Anthony Randolph with sprained left ankle.

Hitting two birds with one ball game

Tonight our Jazz will have the comfort of home court advantage; the visiting New York Knicks shouldn’t be taken lightly. Utah Jazz already fall from one of the lowly teams like Indiana Pacers, nevertheless not only defeating New York Knicks will give Utah Jazz an edge to the playoffs but also have more chance on June for the draft picking as we own NYK’s first round.

NYK’s (26-46) regular season this year is really bad, well Minnesota Timberwolves is much horrible thought.

Toney Douglas, is expected to match Deron Williams tonight. It has been reported that after New York Knicks’ match against Denver Nuggets last Tuesday night (March 23, 2010). Chauncey Billups, an All-Star point guard gave Toney advices after their matchup.

I respect Toney too, he’s doing good for the Knicks offensively but let’s see if he can manage to defend against our D-Will.

Take a peek from old November 9, 2009 match up of New York Knicks and Utah Jazz.

Never Underestimate

While eating a cup of ice cream today I just realized what my thoughts for tomorrow’s game are. Utah Jazz (48 – 26) will be facing New York Knicks (23 – 46) which had nasty loss after visiting Phoenix Suns (46 – 26) March 26, 2010.

New York Knicks recently had a great victory after defeating Denver Nuggets (48 – 25) and man the battle was tough. New York Knicks hard won 5-point victory against the Nuggets like Indiana Pacers defeating our Jazz in their 2^nd day road trip.

Utah Jazz’s 3-day road trip ends after they face New York Knicks, of course we Jazz fans hope for our team’s victory tomorrow and no more unnecessary losses like what happen against Indiana Pacers. Tomorrow is hard to predict if Utah Jazz will win things like what happen against Indiana Pacers is really something.

Home court is in favor for the Knicks, and they could make their loss (after being beaten hard by Phoenix Suns) or convert the idea to something positive and let adrenaline rush like what the Pacers did.

Team standings are irrelevant now as Playoffs places are getting set by each top teams. Game steals could still occur and stats gone badly for the high rankers.

Well, one thing is for sure I can’t wait for the Jazz to return home, then on April 2 Friday the Jazz will be facing one of the toughest teams in the season, top 1 in the Pacific Division. LA Lakers…

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