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Game Thread Apr 25, 2022 7:30PM MT: Jazz at Mavericks - Game 5

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On one hand Dallas wasn't playing with the same intensity last game and we only won by a point. On the other hand we have still not had a great shooting night. If Luka continues to start feeling better he has another level he can get to. I think we have another level we can get to as well.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
On one hand Dallas wasn't playing with the same intensity last game and we only won by a point. On the other hand we have still not had a great shooting night. If Luka continues to start feeling better he has another level he can get to. I think we have another level we can get to as well.
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Yeah. I don’t know what to make of it. And if you had mentioned in January we’d play Dallas in the first round, nobody would have been concerned.
 
jazz4life1992 said:
We need to win this in 6. Against the NBA's next darling Luka in a Game 7 situation on the road in Dallas? I don't like the Jazz chances.

Other thing - the Jazz had a chance to win this in 4 and 5, and take advantage of Phoenix missing Booker. If the Jazz/Mavs series goes 7, Booker will have had 2 full weeks to rest his hamstring, and his original timeline was 2-3 weeks from the injury. It is VERY important that Utah tries to finish this series as quick as possible to try to start the 2nd round series against Phoenix without Booker.
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If this goes 6 or 7 the start date on that series won't change much, maybe by a day. Phoenix is already going 6 games with NOLA, they might even be going 7.

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reignman40 said:
If this goes 6 or 7 the start date on that series won't change much, maybe by a day. Phoenix is already going 6 games with NOLA, they might even be going 7.

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Or NOLA is having to go 7 with Suns... CP3 didn't look completely right last game, and this Suns team isn't _that_ good without Booker anyway.
 
hgb said:
Or NOLA is having to go 7 with Suns... CP3 didn't look completely right last game, and this Suns team isn't _that_ good without Booker anyway.
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I think Phoenix is a good team, but Booker might be needed to beat this Pelicans team.

The Pelicans are pretty stacked people.

McCollum and Ingram are legit scorers. Valincunas is a force underneath. Herb Jones is one of the best if not the best perimeter defenders in the game. Graham and Jose Alvarado are going to make the other team work. They have other solid role players.
 
Can Mitchell shake off this shooting funk he has been in? Is he nursing an injury? Can we get the blender going now and then to generate some open 3s rather than taking these 3s off the dribble or pull-ups or side-steps under pressure and over long defenders? Can we get Rudy and Whiteside more involved? And as has already been mentioned, can we get a good shooting night for once?

If we can answer some of these we can win this thing. If this all continues we have a damn tough hill to climb.
 
infection said:
Yeah. I don’t know what to make of it. And if you had mentioned in January we’d play Dallas in the first round, nobody would have been concerned.
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I definitely still favor the Mavs winning this series. Saturday was a great win and hopefully it turns the series around, but as mentioned, Utah needed some luck to even have a shot at winning that game (or at least something that was out of their control, specifically the missed free throws).

Saturday was a must-win for Utah and a game Dallas could theoretically afford to lose. Sure, the Mavs could have seriously put the Jazz on life support with a win - but they got what they needed out of these last two games with their game three win.

But it just felt like Utah needed everything to go their way just to eke out the win, while Dallas, at least in game's two and three, largely controlled the contest.

Even the game one win was a bit of a ****-show late. Neither game has been remotely easy.

I guess the good news is that Utah and Dallas are tied despite the Jazz not really playing all that well.

The bad news is that over a seven-game series, if that doesn't change, it's going to eventually catch up to them - just as it almost did Saturday.

If I had to predict, I think Dallas wins tonight and closes this out in game six.

But maybe Saturday's game was a turning point and the Jazz put in a complete effort. I mean, they're certainly do, right?
 
I'm looking for intensity, energy and focus to start the game tonight. If we come out and play like we give a damn on both ends then we should win.

No more letdowns, Jazz can win this if they play to their potential and actually put the effort forward on offense and defense like they did on Saturday.
 
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