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Well, 2 big wins, and both can be chalked up to big time D. When the Jazz are playing like this, nobody can beat them. We win by 11 and only score 77??? Manu held to a 20 something shooting %??? CP3 held to a single single??? When was the last time THAT happened? The Jazz could not have picked a better time to decide to play hard nosed defense. I hope they carry this into the next 4 and into the playoffs.

Here is a huge shout out to the Jazz playing awesome DEFENSE!

I don't know if its better defense or both the Hornets and Spurs have just had off nights, but lets hope it holds up.

Probably both. But the Jazz definitely played much better defense.

yeh the spurs and the hornets were off their game

but some of the credit goes to the jazz for stepping up defensive intensity

Andrei defense

AKs Defense tonight was incredible!

our offense not so much. they looked like they have never seen how to run a fastbreak, or at least in that one play im thinking of

Our rotation have been better. The goal now should be to sustain it. AND for everyone on here not to junp off a bridge next time they have a bad game.

Next task: Shutting down Dallas

We played great defense for sure. We

The hornets are 8-2 in their last ten games,the Spurs 9-1!They sure looked to be on their game on those nights.How about we give the Jazz full credit for being the ones to take these teams off their game!The Jazz are making this happen!

gojazzmjsucks wrote:The hornets are 8-2 in their last ten games,the Spurs 9-1!They sure looked to be on their game on those nights.How about we give the Jazz full credit for being the ones to take these teams off their game!The Jazz are making this happen!

Seriously. They held the top 2 teams in the west to their lowest point totals of the season in back to back games! You can't tell me that both these teams, the hottest teams in the west each time we played them, both with good win streaks, were simply off their game. Credit the Jazz for throwing them off their game. I didn't watch the whole game last night, but I watched the whole Spurs game and I know it was our defense that made that game a blowout. We had so many steals early on that is really prevented the Spurs from establishing a rhythm.

Hikari wrote:Our rotation have been better. The goal now should be to sustain it. AND for everyone on here not to junp off a bridge next time they have a bad game.

Our defensive rotation last night was incredibly sharp. Everyone was in sync. I doubt it's something that is totally sustainable, but it's good to see what can happen when we play defense with playoff intensity.

You never know how much can be credited to the defense playing well or the offense playing badly. I do know that part of the story was the lack of tempo. There were very few possessions in this game, because both teams were being patient and running the clock down in order to get quality shots (that often never came), and then there were very few calls made, so you didn't have many points coming with the clock stopped.

The Jazz, on a per-possession basis, didn't have that bad of a game....aside from the TOs, that is. Certainly not in line with a 77 point output, thats for damn sure. The Hornets had a pretty bad game, but it surely wasn't as bad as 66 points makes it look. The lack of FTs plays big into this, as well as the ugly, slow ass pace.

In fact, the reality is that both teams were fairly on their games offensively, but both defenses trumped that as the game wore on. Towards the end of the 1st quarter, as I was watching West hit one unbelievably difficult shot after another, I kept thinking "these can't keep going in forever, this is going to catch up to them"....and it did. The Hornets got--or were forced into--a ton of bad shots, and they even made an inordinately high amount of them, as well. Hell, Peterson's driving swooping baby hook through the lane to start the 3rd quarter was one of the most difficult shots I've seen all season, and it may not have been the hardest shot they made in just this game!

No, I think all in all the Jazz played their best defensive game all year last night. I truly think that the ineptitude of the Hornet's O was more in response to our continued defensive pressure than it being an "off-night".

We have known all year long that we were capable of this. I can't say how happy it makes me to finally see it happening as we prepare for a big playoff push.



....and Memo is probably playing the best basketball of his career right now. Whenever he plays like he did last night, we are essentially unbeatable.

We're gonna DOMINATE the playoffs if we can keep this D up.

erudite23 wrote:
....and Memo is probably playing the best basketball of his career right now. Whenever he plays like he did last night, we are essentially unbeatable.

Couldn't agree with you more. Memo is putting up career numbers in the last month or so. He's got to stay hot, but remember last season he struggled going into and during the playoffs. Not too mention AK was menstrating that entire month, so with Memo playing his best basketball AND a productive Andrei Kirilenko our team has everything it needs to make a run during these playoffs.