when i am writing, i go by my mind. i've never tried to reorder the wording except making spelling changes.
We have all been begging for that Stockton Revenge for about 12 years now! Although I would like to see us play them in the 1st round, they have been the buggaboo for us for 2 years now. I think we have the weapons to take them out this year. Just the momentum and confidence of taking them out and getting that weight off our shoulders could propel us to the WCF All this team needs to do is believe that they can win, and win they will do.
I have a feeling that this year's Rockets team would kick the crap out of the Jazz in a playoff series.
We'll see if the Jazz stay 4th in the power rankings after the rockets win this game on wednesday!! We probalbly would've been 4th ranked if they didn't choke that Chicago game..
Someone mentioned in the NBA Dish ... I would LOVE it if the Jazz ended up as the 8th seed.... 1st round matchup, Lakers and Jazz.... that would be excellent.
Now, without checking the standings, can you name the only team that hasn't lost a game since the All-Star break? If you guessed the Utah Jazz, you are correct. Utah (9) 37-23 Pace: 91.1 (11), Off: 112.4 (6), Def: 108.2 (11) The Jazz have turned it up on both ends of the floor since the break, with a 117.1 offensive rating and a 102.4 defensive rating over seven games. As Carlos Boozer gets back into it, Ronnie Brewer has put together three 20-plus games for the first time in his career. They r realy good.
I didn't think it deserved it's own thread, so here's SI's ranking of the Rockets plus an interesting comment from Battier: LINK
Yeah! The reason is because Carlos Boozer is probably the most fundamentally sound and pretty much the best power forward other than Dwight Howard that is American. Oh yeah and his college coach jusrt happened to be Team USA coach. I've been watching Boozer since he used to destroy my are boys high school squad. He had skills then too. My point is Boozer's been balling. He didn't need the mismatch between Yao and him to show that!! I'd like too see what Boozer does with Ron is his grill. The Jazz have only beat us in the past because of mismatches and injuries. They don't really have neither now.
I'm not even going to lie...the jazz are playing as good AS ANYONE. I don't wanna face em in the playoffs if they were to start today becuz they are clicking! CLICKING! The jazz deserve number 4, and I have no IDEA what it would be like to play them with the team we have now. We have 2 games at there house left this season...it's going to say alot about how good we'll do in the playoffs.
That's why we are good vs the Jazz, Yao don't need to worry about Boozer/Okur/Kirilenko any more. Artest and Scola won't let Boozer and AK to surround Yao. There is no more Hayes or Rafer on this team where the Jazz can play off. Scola will toy with Boozer and exposed his horrific defense. Now the Jazz will be force to guard everybody. And Houston will not go with only 4 guys to score on a basketball game. With have a bench now, we have 2 PF now and a healthy Yao. BTW Okur was awful on that series.
because jazz is such a bad match up for us... forget about the Yao-Boozer or Yao Okur match up, the thing I'm pissed off the most is... who the hell is Ron Artest and Shane Battier going to guard when playing utah? We have one of the best wing defences in the league. Unfortunately, utah doesn't have anyone worthy of being guarded by that best defence. I'm not afriad of the jazz. but if our best offensive weapon are having a hard time to dominate them; while our best defensive weapon will not be effective because (duh!) the guys they will guard sucks offensively... that screams for matchup disadvantages for us.
Let's try Artest on Boozer, Scola on Okur, Yao on Kirilenko, Lowry/Brooks on DWill, and Battier on Korver/whoever they start at shooting guard.
