THEY GOT NASTY!!!

After losing to the Lakers in a horrible fashion in game 1 and 2 of the first round NBA series, head coach of the Utah Jazz, Jerry Sloan said...

"We're not a nasty team...you know most the teams we've had (previously in Utah) have been pretty nasty - they will get after you from daylight until dark. We're just learning how to get after it a little bit more as we go along with younger guys"

Well last night they got nasty!!! Carlos Boozer had a big game with 23 points and 22 rebounds and a 4th Quarter highlight where he blew past Gasol to go beast on him with a left handed flush!

They also played some GREAT defense on the supposedly great Kobe Bryant. Bryant only made 5 out of 24 shots for 18 points. That does not sound like a franchise player and team leader in a playoff game on the road, does it?

Deron Williams was not playing well either for the majority of the night but unlike Kobe Bryant, Williams came through when it counted. Deron Williams hit a fadeaway jumper with 2 seconds left that lifted the Utah Jazz to an 88-86 win over the LA Lakers.

They got nasty and they are back in the 7 game series. I cannot wait to see game 4 in Utah.

Stevie in the house!!

Stevie Wonder came out to watch…err…listen to the Los Angeles Lakers whup up on the Utah Jazz last night! Why he was sitting next to Eddie Murphy’s son Christian…I have no idea.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN....Part 2.

Now for the Western Conference! Let’s start with the odds favorite to win it all, the LA Lakers against the Utah Jazz. Utah is a very good team and fundamentally sound but the Jazz has no where near enough fire power to hang with the Lake show! This one should be quick and painless; Lakers will win the series in 5 games. I have to give Utah at least one win at home, those Mormon fans are off the meter!!

Denver Nuggets the number 2 seed in the West up against the New Orleans Hornets sounds cut and dry with a 2 seed up against 7th seed, but I like the Hornets here. The Nuggets defense is soooo suspect to me that if they win the series it was have to be in 4 or 5 games. If the Nuggets let the Hornets hang around and go 7 games, they will lose this series.

The San Antonio Spurs go head to head against he Dallas Mavericks! Texas 2 step! This one to me belongs to ANYONE! Whoever wins game 5 wins the whole thing. I say that because the Spurs are hurting badly, no Ginobili, Mr. Duncan is not even 100 percent. Dallas could just run away with this thing but Dirk has never showed me the heart needed to put a team away and Popovich and Spurs are full of heart, so I cannot count them out. So my personal analysis is a reluctant Dallas will win the series in 6 games.

Last and really it is the least, Houston Rockets versus the Portland Trailblazers. I am personally torn on this one. I want Houston to win because I would love to them win the series with McGrady out. He has never been past the first round and for them to win the first round without him would give McGrady a complex so huge he would have spend his NBA pension on psychiatric help. On the other hand I would love to see the young feisty Trailblazers win a series. That team has been totally revamped, they got rid of the trouble makers and pot smokers and have a great coach, I am rooting for them. Frankly these are my personal feelings, no one really cares who wins this series, that’s why the NBA needs to go back to 5 game first round series. This one will probably go 7 games and I believe the young Trailblazers inexperience will show up in that game. Houston Rockets take it in 7 games.