I feel much better about our first round chances now. If Rox can just be themselves they will be fine. It is gonna be an ugly but fun match...
LMAO! They were outscored 39-16 in the 4th quarter at home to lose by 3! What a choke! I still think we'll get the HCA. Look at Utah's schedule. Mon 4/9: @ Golden State Wed 4/11: Denver Fri 4/13: @ Dallas Sat 4/14: Phoenix ( this is going to be brutal... back to back with Mavs/Suns!) Mon 4/16: Portland Wed 4/18: Houston Jazz could easily lose the next 4 games (making Charles Barkley look extremely clueless) They've already lost to Portland recently, and I think we'll win the last game if we're healthy and if Bonzi is playing well by that time.
Wow there is some hope. We've got 1 or 2 pretty much guaranteed losses though coming up. Phoenix and then New Orleans. They have like 2 or 3. To get HCA, in the worst case scenario, we'd have to be tied with them going into the final game against them and win. Best case is we're already far enough ahead of them that even though they win the last game we still get the homecourt. that's probably not going to happen though. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'VE DROPPED LIKE 3 STRAIGHT AND WE CAN'T CAPITALIZE ON IT. WE COULD HAVE HAD HCA BY NOW. We had better f*cking win tomorrow and up until the Suns game because we need the HCA. And btw, how are they playing so bad? What excuses are their fans making? Coach's rotation being too short?
I went to jazzfanz.com to see the meltdown from the Sonics game. They are blaming Sloan for not playing rookie Ronnie Brewer (LOL just like us). They wanted to play Brewer because of his good defense. Harpring, who was getting the playing time, was getting lit up by Rashard Lewis. Fans thought Brewer could shut Lewis down. While they have the tie-breaker, I really think we will beat them in the last game of the season as long as we're healthy (remember that Head didn't play in the last game vs Jazz). That is why I'm ignoring this tie-breaker BS. If we're really 1 game out like the standings say, then we're really 1 game out. That means we're one game back in the loss column, so as long as they lose one more game than we do before the last game of the season, we're set!
The Rockets lose three straight and somehow gain in the standings? What is this, the Eastern Conference?
lol aite man. Maybe not the New Orleans game especially since they lost D-Mase but i'll do something crazy if we beat the Suns.
We're just 1/2 a game behind utah now, but the surprising news is that AK47 is out for the rest of the season and the start of the playoff according to the Jazz forum.
"Out for the rest of the season"... at this point in the year, that can make an injury sound so much worse than it is (apparently he's supposed to miss two weeks). Still, it would suck if he missed the playoff series and Utah fans blame their loss on his absence.
See I told you so. Your Superstar's health is more important than HCA, as long as you're in playoffs.
Who cares? As long as we beat them, they can make all the excuses they want to. I keep making the excuse that we would've beaten the Mavs if J-Ho didn't go down with the viral infection in his heart.
Here is the SL Trib story: http://www.sltrib.com/jazz/ci_5621079 JAZZ NOTES: Kirilenko could miss two weeksKirilenko could miss up to two weeks By Michael C. Lewis The Salt Lake Tribune Article Launched: 04/08/2007 01:31:46 AM MDT All right, so the good news is that the Jazz have managed to win six of the eight games that forward Andrei Kirilenko has missed because of injury. The bad news is they're going to have to keep trying. The Jazz said Kirilenko could miss up to two weeks - a stretch that could include the final six regular-season games and the start of the playoffs - with the injured left thumb he suffered in the loss at Sacramento on Friday night. So while teammate Deron Williams bounced back from the strained groin he suffered against the Kings to compile 24 points and 13 assists in a 106-103 loss to Seattle at EnergySolutions Arena on Saturday night, Kirilenko sat subdued behind the Jazz bench, in a gray suit and a protective split on his injured thumb. "I can't do a thing about it," coach Jerry Sloan said. Yet it's hard not to imagine that Kirilenko might have had some luck defending Seattle's Rashard Lewis, the 6-foot-10 forward who took the game over and scored 16 of his game-high 35 points in the fourth quarter to hand the Jazz their second straight meltdown loss. "I don't know what happened," center Mehmet Okur said. "We have to figure out what's going on right now." In place of Kirilenko, rookie Ronnie Brewer made his first start since a loss to New Orleans on Jan. 27. He hadn't played in the previous five games, but finished with 12 points.
Here is an interesting quote from the Jazz Fan Site: "I was told by a Rocket fan (pretty reliable source usually, he knows the team well) that had Utah won vs Seattle, they were gonna just rest Tmac and Yao tonite and basically concede homecourt to us. Totally different story now. The Jazz magic # is stuck on 5; a few days ago, I figured we'd have clinched before that final game. Now? We'll be fortunate just to get down to that last game with a chance to get homecourt with a win." This sound plausible and has some logic to it. Seems JVG is playing games with the media with that interview, especially with T-mac saying he could have played.
