D-Will, Low on Batteries

Salty, that’s what Utah Jazz have been in Staples Center Los Angeles California. Our Utah Jazz didn’t manage to steal a game on the road against LA Lakers. In Game 2, Andrew Bynum managed to neutralize Deron Williams, oh Andrei  if only you were around. Our good `ol Andrei Kirilenko still couldn’t make it in the playoffs. I guess we won’t be seeing him even Utah Jazz managed to defeat LA Lakers.

We don’t have a giant in the paint, Mehmet Okur is suffering from an injury as well.

Ruptured Left Achillies… what a bummer…

D-will, totally discharged with his score in NBA Playoffs 2010 Round 2 (Game 2) making only 15 points, and 9 assists. Paul Millsap, CJ Miles and Carlos Boozer weren’t shorthanded as they managed to have 26, 20, 20 points (respectively).

Utah Jazz vs LA Lakers final game score ended 111 – 103, Kobe Bryant made 30 points / 8 assists in the game and if only Deron Williams managed to do his “thing” in this game Utah Jazz might have won. Just do the math, LA 111 and Jazz 103.

If D-Will managed to make 25 points (he made 15 in the game) then we could have won by 2 points.

Just wishful thinking, can’t let go of the Jazz to end their Playoffs performance. (Of course the championship too )

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.

Denver refused easy elimination of the NBA 2010 Playoffs

Denver Nuggets survives from being eliminated by winning Game 5 in their home court in Pepsi Center. This is why I didn’t blog anything about Utah Jazz finishing it off Denver Nuggets in Game 5, the Nuggets wouldn’t be on their top Regular Season Team stats if they are that weak. Even so the Nuggets are missing their coach and settling communication problem with Adrian Dantley.

Utah Jazz falls short in the 3^rd quarter wherein they started trailing with Denver. Denver Nuggets zoomed with 36 points against 29 points of the Utah Jazz. The game ended 116-102 in favor of the Nuggets.

Deron Williams, didn’t lose what he started when the Jazz kept winning. Deron Williams contributed 34 points and 10 assists. Carlos Boozer, help D-will with his 25 points and collected 16 rebounds. Statistics shows that Utah Jazz didn’t lack in defense, because Boozer has collected 13 defensive rebounds of that 16 total rebounds. It’s the bench players who lost their batteries, Kyle Korver was scoreless during his 20 minutes in the game. Paul Millsap is doing good with 16 points, Wesley Matthews with 15 points and Fesenko got only 3 points.

Carmelo Anthony, doing good with his gameplay now and set aside all the drama going in his team. This time the Denver Nuggets’ bench players step up.

If this continues the game might end in Salt Lake City in Game 7, or Deron Williams may have blaze away again like what he did in Game 2 and end Denver Nuggets’ lifeline in the NBA 2010 Playoffs in Game 6.

NBA admits mistake on OKC Thunder vs Utah Jazz

“On the final play of last night’s Oklahoma City-Utah game, the officials missed a foul committed by the Jazz’s C.J. Miles on the Thunder’s Kevin Durant during a 3-point shot attempt,” NBA president of league and basketball operations Joel Litvin said in a statement.

Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5064972

Inasmuch as I want a clean match, I did research on the matter thoroughly. Watch different angles of the video in different videos available throughout the net. Nevertheless, if the NBA admits the “No-call foul” issue on the Oklahoma Thunder vs Utah Jazz match then my case is closed as well.

After the recent loss against Houston Rockets, I hope the Jazz are prepared to face New Orleans Hornets. Last March 21, Utah Jazz has defeated the New Orleans Hornets.

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

Keep winning

Now that our Utah Jazz have acquired the position of first place in the Northwest Division, every Utah Jazz fan is now excited that we have the advantage of playing the first round of playoffs in our home-court.

The visiting Golden State Warriors (21-52) I hope we don’t slip to improve our standings, Utah Jazz currently with 48-26 marches forward to the playoffs along with the top teams like Boston Celtics (47-26) currently ranked #1 in Atlantic Division that we recently defeat at home, Cleveland Cavaliers (58-16) #1 in Central Division which the world expected around the globe to match LA Lakers (54-20) in the Pacific Division. Orlando Magic (52-22) for the Southeast Division, and finally Dallas Cowboys (49-25) for the Southwest Division.

We all know everything change and tables turned during the playoffs. Last year LA Lakers dominated our Jazz with only 5 games (4-1). Even Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t manage to face LA Lakers last year when Orlando Magic defeated them.

Everything changes during the playoffs, and every aspect is essential including home-court advantage, coaching, preparation and determination of the team to win.

Everything is in the playoffs; it is the beginning as well as the end.

Some fans are just contented for our Jazz just to play in the playoffs, I prefer them holding the bucket.

It’s time to get wild folks!

New York Knicks vs Utah Jazz Game Recap and Final Scores

Utah Jazz beats New York Knicks in a hard fought battle in Energy Solutions Arena, the Knicks tied the game at 2 minutes left in the third quarter. The game became pass-run-shoot, a lot of fast breaks, and a contest of 3-point shooting. Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer scored double-double figures. Utah Jazz wins 103-98 and moves as the first place in the Northwest Division.

Washington Wizards 15th straight loss | Utah Jazz vs Washington Wizards Game Results

Utah Jazz last encounter with Washington Wizards was last March 16, 2010, Utah Jazz beat Washington Wizards 112-89, Carlos Boozer scored 23 points, grabs 9 rebounds and performed 2 assist during that game along with Deron Williams with 17 points and 11 assists.

Tonight, Mehmeh Okur grabs the glory in defeating Washington Wizards with 22 points and 11 rebounds. Memo have been playing greatly since Jazz’s defeated Boston Celtics. Deron Williams scored 20 points and proving his League Leadership in Assists making 12 assists for the Jazz. Washington Wizards is going out of the question to play in the playoffs with only 21 wins and 51 loss, they haven’t won a single game since February 28.

This time Coach Jerry Sloan didn’t let Andrei Kirilenko play as he still suffers from left calf injury. Couldn’t agree more as AK wasn’t able to perform well yesterday as Utah Jazz lost their winning streak when they visited Indiana Pacers.

Washington Wizards’s team kept loosing because of player injuries, Al thornton with right hip injury and Randy Roye with wrist injury.

UTA	23	27	30	23	103
WAS	21	22	22	22	87

Team Standings:

Utah Jazz steps up with 48 wins and 26 losses after defeating Washington Wizards.

Washington Wizards defeated by Utah Jazz in their home court in Verizon Center, Washington DC loosing chance to play in the playoffs with 21 wins and 51 losses.

Next Game: New York Knicks vs. Utah Jazz – March 29, 2010 7:00PM in our home court EnergySolutions, Arena, Salt Lake City Utah

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