Best wins / worst losses in modern Jazz era (last 3 years)

[sendai91]

The possibility of losing the game last night got me thinking about what have been our worst losses (either blowouts or games we should have won) and also our best wins since Deron joined the team (what I consider the Jazz modern era).

Over the past 3 years, the best wins (for me) are:

1. Game 7 in Houston last year - very gutsy win, 3 orb in the last two minutes, very impressive win on the road. If Andrei hadn't have made that three..

2. Either game 1 or game 2 against the Warriors from the playoffs. Our defense wasn't the greatest in either one, but both were great wins.

3. The win over the Lakers here this year without Memo and Booze, Fesenko had a nice game, Ak's triple double, Deron was spectacular

4. The season opener over the Mavericks 2 seasons ago - Deron's debut with the 2/3 length court 3-pointer, nice 10 pt win

5. 1 pt win over the Cavs and Lebron at home a little more than a year ago. I think that we dodged a bullet with the no-call on Giri on the last play of game

6. The road win over the Pistons earlier this year (and each of the last two years) was very impressive

7. The dissection of the Nuggets last Saturday - maybe the most controlled and precise I have ever seen our offense play

Worst (most heartbreaking) losses in the last three years:

1. Game 4 vs. the Spurs last year in the WCF - we got ran out of our own building - certain Jazz players were already on vacation.

2. The loss to the Knicks last season - the full-court run and shoot by Marbury may be the Jazz's most embarassing loss in years

3. The loss to the Kings at home in Dec 2006 - up by 13 or 15 with a few minutes left and blew the game

4. The loss to Seattle at the end of last season where we led by 21 going into the 4th quarter

5. Miami this year where we fought back to take the lead only to lose on Wade's lucky bounce shot off of the front of the rim

6. Vince Carter miracle 35 + ft bomb at the horn last year

7. Similar shot by Eddie Jones where the Grizz beat us in OT last year

8. 41 points from Linus Kleiza - really?

That's my list - what's on yours?

[carrottop12]

Best:

Game 7 at Houston.

Game 4 at the Oracle, remember nobody was supposed to be able to win there.

Game 6 against Houston. The Jazz were obviously the better team but they still fended off elimination in convincing fashion, it was one of the most exciting games with Giri hitting some big three's.

Game 3 against Houston is probably the biggest of all of them. The Jazz held them to having only 4 players score all game long, in the playoffs and only 67 points overall. Seriously absurd.

Bad losses:

Knicks anytime
Seattle after leading by 21.
Game 4 against the Spurs, even though the refs really **** the Jazz on that one.