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Game 5: Termination Game -- Jazz @ Thunder 4/25/2018 7:30 pm MST

Jazzfanz is kind of full of a bunch of *******. Wouldn’t be a Jazzfanz if there wasn’t half the guys around here shaking in their boots before every game. Rudy, Mitchell and Jingles are going to be pissed at how this game went down. I’m expecting a great game out of those three and a rebound game by Quin. He was trying, but he let the third quarter get away from them. Even just slow that damage down a little and the Jazz probably still win. Letting them tie the game in the 3rd after blowing a big lead was just too much for a tired team to overcome.
That would be cool.
 
Also, you're aware Westbrook putting up insane lines is the norm, not the exception, right?
Seriously. Westbrook makes a living off of scenarios like these. OTOH, he's also capable of playing hero ball and chucking up one bad shot after another. Guess we'll have to wait and see which Russell shows up on Friday.
 
Jazzfanz is kind of full of a bunch of *******. Wouldn’t be a Jazzfanz if there wasn’t half the guys around here shaking in their boots before every game. Rudy, Mitchell and Jingles are going to be pissed at how this game went down. I’m expecting a great game out of those three and a rebound game by Quin. He was trying, but he let the third quarter get away from them. Even just slow that damage down a little and the Jazz probably still win. Letting them tie the game in the 3rd after blowing a big lead was just too much for a tired team to overcome.

Thing is that Rudy, Ingless and Mitchell have won 2 playoff series between them. Total. Add Rubio to the mix and the total is still two. They realistically don't even really know what they are capable of. Not an All Star in the bunch vs 3 potential HOFers and the reigning MVP of the league with many playoff runs between them. They do know what they are capable of and it's carnage. The Jazz better not take game 6 lightly.
 
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I don't get the idea that this loss, seemingly, means practically nothing.

It's a tough loss, duh, but historically the team up 3-2 and heading home was won 7-game series 232 times versus 87 losses.

http://www.whowins.com/tables/up32.html

Jazz still in the driver's seat. Either the tough game would have happened three games from now when they were down 2-0 to the Rockets, or game 6 of this series. Don't seem like such a big difference to me. We're going to see now what these guys are made of.
 
“Hey, get your ice picks out. Get all your stuff solved. Go out in the parking lot. Do whatever you have to do, to get all the nonsense taken care of, so we can play basketball. Let's get back to the business of basketball."
 
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