What to expect from tonight’s game (7 p.m. MDT, TNT):
Sloan and Nellie will have made adjustments.
Sloan desperately wants to get the ball to Boozer more, break down that 1-2-2 zone, and establish the pick-and-roll. Don Nelson will not tolerate another rebounding performance like Game 1. They’ve each had two days to pore [...]

Last night’s Game 1 showed that a lot of notions people around the country (myself included) had about this series are inaccurate, and in some cases flat-out wrong. Looking at a few of them:
1) The Jazz are plodding neanderthals who can’t hang with the Warriors’ speed.
False. Game 1 provided the highest point [...]

Well, so much for not running.
The Jazz beat the Warriors at their own game (more or less) Monday night, squeaking out a 116-112 win. The game featured 16 lead changes, 20 ties, and two point guard juggernauts going head-to-head with marvelous results. Our own Deron Williams came out on top, leading [...]

Guards:
Baron Davis, when healthy, is an MVP-caliber player. He’s a bit gimpy at the moment with a pulled hamstring, but he can still take over games with his shooting and penetration. Deron Williams has blossomed all season, and the Houston series (especially a sublime Game 7) has shown that the playoffs [...]

Had the Utah Jazz not won this game, it might have meant my death as a sports fan.
I mean, I don’t think I would have been able to handle it. To have outplayed the Rockets for the fifth (arguably the sixth) time in this series, and to still not have won, would [...]

Harpring blocks Yao
It’s just one game.
We’re still down in the series. McGrady didn’t have a good shooting night. Luther Head couldn’t hit a shot to save his life. No Rockets bench player scored. Clearly, we received more benefit from calls than we did in Houston (although we still shot far fewer free [...]

After watching the lose game two, I felt sick. Like most of you, the Jazz have consumed a lot of my time this season. Considering I watched roughly 75 games on TV, and read just about every article I could find on the team, I estimate that I spent at [...]

Nothing more need be said, really. (This kid is actually playing a computer game of some kind — kudos to whoever overlaid the text.)

There is a lot of reason for optimism if you are a Jazz fan. There is no way that Houston is a better team than the Jazz. Yes they have Yao and McGrady, but the Jazz are better at every other position, including the players on the bench.
In my mind, [...]

Are the Jazz going to make a deal before the February 22 trade deadline? That is the question. I think we can all admit at this point, that as the Jazz are presently constituted, they are probably not going to win a championship this year. There are some glaring [...]