Utah Jazz @ Portland Trail Blazers

[carrottop12]

For this to be the fourth game in 6 nights, last game of a long roadie after the all-star break, no practices at home in almost two weeks, missing 2 of our starting 5 with a rookie starting for the only the second time since the line up change, in Portland, down 25 in the third quarter, and to come back and win it?

Unbelievable. Not to mention Deron's injury, what a game.

[jazzfan1971]

You forgot Millsap fouling out.

[Reckless]

This is the type of victory that a championship caliber team manufactures.

we won with defense,plain and simple

[Denizfeital]

Oh my gosh ! I just woke up now (I wasnt able to listen the game last night, too late here) and I found out a win after The Jazz was behind 25 !!!

Man, I am speechless.

But one thing I wanna say for a long time: A PERFECT ROAD TRIP !!

Go Jazz !

[FJS]

This is a great sign. We have won playing awful basketball. Missing a lot of rebounds, without Okur and AK. (Without Brewer, of course) Millsap playing poorly. Deron playing at 50% of his level.

Great to see Boozer shine, and Fesenko giving some points of light.

Go Jazz!!!!

[drivewayball]

1) From the outset, the Jazz were playing right, just not playing well. Guards were missing every single shot, Camby was getting blocks on Boozer, and there were too many turnovers.
2) Portland played hard throughout. They just shot the ball in the second half the way the Jazz shot in the first half plus five minutes.
3) Fesenko helped a ton. He will play more in the weeks ahead. Price played only nine minutes and they were good, intense minutes. Boozer played with amazing heart.

[Ming Kong!]

1) From the outset, the Jazz were playing right, just not playing well. Guards were missing every single shot, Camby was getting blocks on Boozer, and there were too many turnovers.
2) Portland played hard throughout. They just shot the ball in the second half the way the Jazz shot in the first half plus five minutes.
3) Fesenko helped a ton. He will play more in the weeks ahead. Price played only nine minutes and they were good, intense minutes. Boozer played with amazing heart.

1) I would say that the Jazz were lacking defensive intensity in the first 2 and 1/2 quarters. The Blazers were toying with the Jazz on offense.
2) Portland played well in the first half, that's for sure, but once the Jazz stepped up, they were either tired, I mean they were just shooting jumpers most of the game, and played hard defense, or they were just out matched. We were really playing our style of basketball (of late that is) for the last 20 minutes.
3) Agreed, he won me over after much doubt that I had in this guy. He basically had his Sundiata Gaines moment on national television, without the fancy game winning 3, but I would say he sparked our energy on defense, and the rest of team fed off his hustle. I just remember saying, come on lets not give up, and when Fes came in I thought that was the towel, but man he was our freaking savior.

I love this team.

[The Sheik]

What a game last night. I thought finally the "real" Jazz showed up, but damn they proved me wrong and continue to prove me wrong.

[Matt007b]

one last look at the game recap..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUnsNwimwic

boozer @ 4:11..."let's win this b**ch!"

[LjJazzman]

First off I have just such a massive amount of respect for our team right now. Its one thing to go into a game knowing your short handed, without Memo and Brewer. I know we can't use that excuse for much longer but brewer played a big part for this team and it will take a min for us to get used to playing without him again. But also we had to deal with AK going out, and Sap fouling out. Even with all that we still come from behind to win vs a great team and one of the toughest home arenas in the league? Amazing

Boozer is without question the player of the game. He played his ass off on both ends.

Fess and Boozers offense rebounds especially those of of FT's were awesome.

The only negative on of the 4th and OT was CJs stupid play. Everyone has talked about his nonbox out, and also passing to boozer instead of waiting for the play to devlop to pass to a better FT shooter. But also he didnt even try for the offense rebound at the end of the game when boozer was shooting FT's and also his defense was horrible and sloppy.

[The Sheik]

some other points:

Big Fes was huge.

Deron won the game IMO. Since Roy has been on the Blazers nobody has been able to stop him like Deron did.

Lastly who said Deron cant defened?

[DelaneyRudd]

I hope Fes gets more chances. Feels like he's ready to turn the corner.

[jazzfan1971]

First off I have just such a massive amount of respect for our team right now. Its one thing to go into a game knowing your short handed, without Memo and Brewer. I know we can't use that excuse for much longer but brewer played a big part for this team and it will take a min for us to get used to playing without him again. But also we had to deal with AK going out, and Sap fouling out. Even with all that we still come from behind to win vs a great team and one of the toughest home arenas in the league? Amazing

Boozer is without question the player of the game. He played his ass off on both ends.

Fess and Boozers offense rebounds especially those of of FT's were awesome.

The only negative on of the 4th and OT was CJs stupid play. Everyone has talked about his nonbox out, and also passing to boozer instead of waiting for the play to devlop to pass to a better FT shooter. But also he didnt even try for the offense rebound at the end of the game when boozer was shooting FT's and also his defense was horrible and sloppy.

yeah, I mentioned the inbound play as well. I don't think he'd have gotten as much run if we weren't so short handed. That was one night we could have used Brewer.

I wonder if CJ is just slow. Mentally. He's obviously got some game. But, the decision making process seems to be the problem with him.

I have aa niece that was just diagnosed with ADD. Teh doctor was talking about her problem being something akin to mini seizures that happen ever minutes or so for a second or two. Not enough to really notice, but, just stops her focus for that time. Her dad had some of the same difficulties in school and said that sounds a lot like what he experienced. Just little blips of missed time.

Could it be CJ has something like that? Not enough to really notice, but, just little blips of time Iwhere he's offline? I guess one of the symptoms is not finishing sentences. It'd be interesting to talk to him and see if he ever just stops talking mid sentence.

[erudite23]

I think the dumbest thing he did was on our 3rd to last possession (iirc) when Deron was breaking his man down, started to penetrate and pull CJ's guy to double. For some reason, CJ moved behind Deron as he drove and dished, leaving the ball to sail out of bounds for no reason at all.

[Soul Patch]

Millsap gets absolutely no respect from the Refs. He must be banging all their daughters or something. Miles just doesn't seem to get it. He's talented, has a basketball body, but doesn't seem to fully recognize the situations on the court. Williams played the best defense I've ever seen someone play on Roy, I don't watch Roy play often though.

[jazzed77]

I hope Fes gets more chances. Feels like he's ready to turn the corner.

I've flt like that pretty much everytime Fes gets some real burn only to see him sit for like the next 10 games......