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Lakers @ Jazz Fri. 4/1 8:30 PM MT ESPN

Who wins this one?

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...well...if it hasn't happened already..it's time for the Miller family and KOC to become very uncomfortable. This team doesn't have a superstar...and they collapse down the stretch. Ty needs to get it figured out...or it's going to be a really long 3 years.
 
Jazz play a pretty good first half. Lots of energy. Fess was a man in the middle. Bynum couldn't get his shot off. However, the refs took over in the second half. The Lakers stepped up their defense but to say they never foul is ridiculous. The refs allow the Lakers to grab and hold Jazz players when they try to cut and run their stuff. The Laker know that if the Jazz get taken out of their offense then the are done.

I applaud the effort but what separates the Jazz from good teams are players who can score outside of the offense when things break own. After DW was traded the Jazz lost the only player who could do that. Now they really don't have a player like that can create their own shot.

When the Jazz were good they had three players who could create offense on their own Malone, Stockton and Hornacek even Russell sometimes. Oh well I like the effort. On the other hand, all those Jazz fans who sold their tickets to Laker fans.. shame on you. :mad:
 
The Jazz need someone to step up and become the leader of this team.

Hayward, Millsap, Watson, Fess, Favors, Jefferson, Harris, Kirilenko.... they're nice players, but they need a team leader to play off of. The Jazz need to add an all-star to this mix. Someone who can create and take over. That's a tough player to find, but hopefully the Jazz can find that player in this draft.
 
If we had a healthy jazz team we probably steal this one. Lakers looked really out of it and we could have built a big lead but didn't have enough offensive firepower. Too bad.
 
2-10 3 point shooting will never get the job done in today's NBA.
 
Fes looked great, we were out rebounding the Lakers by a silly margin (10+) when he was in. Also liked how he nearly ripped Kobe's arm out of the socket on that foul. Not dirty, just make him think twice about driving next time. The Jazz have become so soft, that was refreshing to see.
 
That tech for "throwing" the ball at Kobe is one of the weakest techs I've ever seen. Kobe's delayed "outraged" reaction after it was also hilarious.
 
After watching Bynum toy with Dallas's bigs yesterday and struggle with Fesenko today, I have to think there's only a handful of players alive that have the size and strength and quickness to have any hope of containing Bynum. Fesenko is one. While it probably makes no sense for the Jazz to keep him next year, I won't be surprised if a top contender goes after him. Miami seems like the perfect place for him. Maybe he'll be having the last laugh.
 
I kinda got carried away and caught up in the moment last night with all my ref complaints anyway was an expected loss.
I appreciate the effort of the Jazz last night that is all I can ask. Hayward like the Jazz looked good in the first half and in the second again like the Jazz seemed to be pressing/forcing up off balance shots.
 
Gee, the Jazz only playing 1 half against the Lakers. What a surprise...

This has only been happening for... What? Maybe 4 years now?

The only difference was that this time we played the 1st half instead of the 2nd. Remember all those other times we dug deep holes only to have Price, Duron, and Memo bring us back in the 2nd?

This team is ok at 4-5.... They are absolutely brutal 1-3. Especially at 2.... Ugh...
 
The refs don't have to give as much favor to other teams to take the game from the Jazz as they used to.
Still, the Jazz would have won the game, except that the better the Jazz played , the more the refs favored the Lakers.
Bynum gets a call on nearly every missed shot attempt, Jefferson, just the opposite, just for starters.

The calls at the end of the 2nd quarter were brutal. The refs fall for every Lakers flop. Same old same old.

Hayward needs to learn to shoot a J off the dribble.
 
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