Big Win! Any win against the Jazz is a good win but with this game we jump over the Jazz and get the tie breaker. Its fun winning again.
Pat playing like a top 5 lottery pick, the block and dunk he had in this game were NBA JAM material. Martin is like a ninja, silently goes on the offensive. Nobody saw him enter, nobody saw him leave. This game had a playoff intensity through the 3rd and fourth quarters. Prior to that, the energy in the building was putting me to sleep.
Hottest team in the league!! 4 game win streak, longest streak in all the league (Lakers could match it if they beat Portland today though)
37 - 34! Not too bad considering we started out this year @ 3 - 10... On a fun note, does anyone have the link for the Jazz fan site? One of my favorite things to do is read their fan reactions after we beat them!!
Utah's last 15 points or so was damnscary. We couldnt stop anything. No defense what so ever. We just fell apart. Can you imagine what would have happened if they forced us to make plays and shots instead of fouling Martin all the time? We would have hardly scored. We are hardly known for our abilites in executing highly efficient plays during clutch. We are lucky they fouled us and saved us from making challenged shots in clutch. We still choke way too hard in the last 5 minutes. Teams alwasy have a chance cause we completely collapse on both ends of the floor.
I don't care how many times it's been said, I love how this team plays with so much energy and effort. Now we're seeing the results. Anyone that wrote this team off because they don't have a "superstar" really underestimated the heart this team plays with... Lowry was ridiculous, again. Martin seems to get 20+ effortlessly. Incredible scorer... If Hayes isn't on an all-defensive team, . Patterson's amazing dunk seemed to stop the tide from turning. Patterson was such a great draft pick. Great win! :grin:
How about letting Patterson prove himself over a full season instead of a couple of games before you guys try to replace Scola in the starting lineup. You guys are so freakin reactive it's ridiculous. Pat has been playing great for a couple of games while Scola has played at this great for several years. Not too long of you, most of you were saying the same thing about Landry. We traded him and he had an opportunity to start and pretty much bombed. If Patterson keeps playing at the level that he has been playing at over the last couple of games going into the end of the season next year, then we an talk about replacing Scola in the starting lineup. After all, it was only a few games ago that Pat scored just 2 points, 5 rebounds, and 0 blocked shots in almost 28 minutes.
You know, he really is playing like a top five pick. Patterson had a much larger impact on the game than Favors. Also, some people are asking what we are going to do with Scola. We probably don't do anything with Scola, unless we include him in a blockbuster trade. We need more than one quality Power Forward, and now we have Scola and Patterson. We have successfully replaced Landry with a younger, bigger, and cheaper player. Yes, we still lack a good young Center, but overall we are getting better and moving in the right direction. Lowry has been amazing, he's looking like a bargain at 6 million a year.
Houston, the eagle has landed. Well, almost. We got our Rondo(KL), we got our Ray Allen(K Mart), we got our Big Baby(PPat). We need a Pierce and a KG and we are there.
I'd like to move up and draft Perry Jones/Harrison Barnes and pick up Tyson Chandler through FA A lineup if Lowry Kmart Jones 2Pat Chandler Would be scary as hell
I'm very glad to see us win over our eternal opponent. It was made more impressive since we lost Chase along with the expected slow comeback by Luis.
