Preview - Los Angeles Lakers @ Utah Jazz - Game 4
In what everyone thought would be the last game of the season for the Jazz, game four could be where we see the Jazz tie up the series.
All the talk in LALA land has been that the Lakers played their worst game of the series and the Jazz still just barely beat them. Well, guess what, the Jazz also played their worst game of the series and they won. Did they think that was the best the Jazz had to offer?
The momentum train has been gaining traction and game 3 might have been the game to put the Jazz over the top. Even the thinking of Lakers fans is begining to turn, a little.
A game four win for the Jazz would suddenly put everyone in LA in a bit of crisis mode. A three game series? If I were in the Lakers' position, I certainly wouldn't want that.
Look for a much high scoring game from both parties and much better games from everyone all around. Outside of Boozer and Odom, no one really had a "normal" game.
I won't be able to make it to the ESA, but if it's anything like Thursday, the Lakers are in for a long night.
Game thread coming at 6.
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We need to win
I am getting sick and tired of all the Laker fans saying the Lakers let us have this one game, that we suck, and all that. That is one thing that pisses me off about Laker fans. They think there team is the best there ever is, and all the others suck. Ha, even last year when they got spanked by Boston, they said that the Lakers let them have the series because they wanted Bynum to play more. Typical Laker fans. We need to win this game in good fashion to shut up all the Laker fans. In all of the posts I have read, I may have come accross 3 Laker fans who are saying positive things about the Jazz. Why can’t the others do that. I don’t hear a Jazz fan saying the Lakers suck. All though we are Laker Haters, we know when a good team is a good team. Come on Jazz, suck it up, kick butt tonight, and make it a 3 game series and have all Laker fans who thought this was going to be a sweep with the Lakers winning by 30 every night start sweating knowing it is a 3 game series. Protect your home floor.
lol
I am laughing my butt off at the silver screen and roll blog. They have like 6 posts that are almost purely them making excuses for their team! I think it is hilarious that they think the Jazz had their most perfect game ever and the Lakers had their worst game ever to create the "perfect storm", once in a lifetime Jazz W over the Lakers. The Jazz hardly played perfectly and it isn’t like every Laker did so terribly either. Not only that – we have a previous W against the Lakers this year and they didn’t have their worst game then either. Maybe I’m just a proud Jazz fan as much as they are proud Laker fans but the quantity of excuses over there just seems hilarious to me. :-)
I've been over there posting,
and they don’t really like hearing that the Jazz can compete with the Lakers. It’s a little amusing.
That is so not true
But hey whatever gets you fired up.
“Everyone” did not think that game 4 would be the last game. They thought game 5 would be.
The Jazz can compete with the Lakers, how is that for you, why else would they even play the game?
I’m not going to say that the Jazz are better than the Lakers, because I don’t believe that.
You can play the disrespect angle all you want, just know that it’s not always true. If you go looking for disrespect, I’m sure you can find it. But if you read the L.A. papers, they’re all talking about what adjustment the Lakers need to beat the Jazz.
So, I’m not sure what you’re looking for, but if you want people to say “The Jazz suck” you can find them somewhere, just know it’s not a majority opinion.
by Gils_Keloids on Apr 25, 2009 5:37 PM MDT up reply actions
You can't blame Laker fans. Media talking heads are saying the same thing.
Mark Jackson last night calling the Portland-Houston game:
“The Jazz played a picture perfect game on both sides of the ball and the Lakers played their worst and still only lost by 2.”
We need to get used to the fact that whether or not the Lakers win, this series will always be about the Lakers. If they lose, it is more likely due to them losing it, then the other team winning it.
We should expect the Lakers to play much better. I also think they are going to come out amped up and try to take a huge lead at the first and the Jazz better be ready for it, because let’s face it: we have to win this game to have any chance to win the series.
But for people that think the Jazz can’t play any better, are stupid. They haven’t played their best ball yet, in any of the 3 games.
The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.
The NBA
is always biased, last year before the playoffs started, the NBA was promoting a Lakers vs the Celtics Championship seris, this year the NBA is promoting the Lakers and Cavs,
after last years crooked refereeing episode, the NBA needs to clean up their biased NBA media approach for one, and the refereeing this year, looks much better than the last Laker series, when the Jazz were getting shadow fouls called on them by the crooked NBA refereeing, during the zebra scandal year.
The Jazz found their missing magic in game 3, play physical, tough, rough, hustle, fighting basketball, instead of passive, we can outscore them, whats defense? style the way the Jazz finished the season.
by StocksOnTheRocks on Apr 25, 2009 5:11 PM MDT reply actions
On a Limb
pivotal game 4 tonight, If the Jazz win this won, and it will be a dog-fight, I predict the Jazz will go onto win this series in 7, why? they found their magic (tough hard nosed, hustling, physical, team basketball in game 3) with that and Larry Miller watching the game on the BigScreen High in the Sky, with the Finest Company beside Him. there’s going to be a little bit more than just magic.
by StocksOnTheRocks on Apr 25, 2009 5:19 PM MDT reply actions
Jazz Fans are known as the greatest fans in the NBA
Laker fans are lousey, mouthy, uneducated, artificial, me-me, worship kobe on sunday freaks. gay in LA is what they say
by StocksOnTheRocks on Apr 25, 2009 5:23 PM MDT reply actions
Stay classy, Stock!
Generalize much? Anti-gay much?
by Gils_Keloids on Apr 25, 2009 5:39 PM MDT up reply actions
Clarkpojo
Why listen to Mark jackson, he is piece of crap dirt bag who played for us, and was the one who got Karl and John to leave. he was a disgrace to our team and a horrible teamate in the locker room. He has nothing, and I mean nothing positive to say about the Jazz. It was obvious we didn’t play our best in game 3, so Mark is not so intelligent when it comes to talking about other teams. He is a nobody, and never will be a nobody, and get this, he never wants to come back to Utah, so he always declines when the Jazz are on national TV.

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