While you were sleeping... 26 February 2009

Lots of action last night pertaining to the Jazz.  Of course they Jazz won 120-103 so anything else that happened was gravy.  We'll turn it over to Booze again

PISTONS 87 @ HORNETS 90

NOLA looked like they were going to run away with this early.  Detroit made a game of it by coming back in the second quarter.  It was tight the rest of the game but Detroit couldn't quite get over the hump and Chris Paul finished them off.  We're still tied with them.

BUCKS 96 @ MAVS 116

This one was never in doubt for the Mavs.  The game was pretty much over at the half and Dallas keeps hanging on to that 8 spot and 1 1/2 games back of the Jazz.

HAWKS 109 @ NUGGETS 110

Another one that started out promising after the first.  It looked like it was over after the third with Denver up 92-78.  Atlanta tore up the last two minutes and had a chance to win it but Flip Murray missed a runner at the buzzer.  Josh Smith Joe Johnson looked like he could have driven to the basket instead of passing off to Murray.  That would have been a sweet win.

BLAZERS 84 @ SPURS 99

Since we're probably not catching the Spurs, you'll have to root for them again.  They took it to the Blazers.  This is another sweet win in that it comes against one of our division rivals.  We're just 1/2 game back of Portland now in the standings.

So here are the standings.  We're 2 games up on 9th place PHX and 2 games out of fourth.  The Jazz are one of the hottest teams in the league right now.  This is a perfect time to get hot.

Western Conference
	W	L	PCT	GB	HM	RD	CONF	DIV	PF	PA	DIFF	STRK	L10
LA Lakers	47	10	.825	-	26-4	21-6	30-4	10-1	108.9	100.6	+8.4	Won 5	9-1
San Antonio	39	17	.696	7 ½	20-7	19-10	25-8	8-3	97.6	93.5	+4.1	Won 4	7-3
Denver	38	20	.655	9 ½	21-7	17-13	22-11	7-2	103.3	100.7	+2.5	Won 1	6-4
Houston	36	21	.632	11	23-6	13-15	23-10	5-5	98.5	94.9	+3.6	Won 5	8-2
Portland	35	22	.614	12	23-5	12-17	17-17	5-4	98.9	95.3	+3.6	Lost 2	5-5
New Orleans	34	22	.607	12 ½	20-9	14-13	21-14	5-3	96.1	93.7	+2.4	Won 2	6-4
Utah	35	23	.603	12 ½	25-6	10-17	24-11	8-3	103.0	99.4	+3.6	Won 6	9-1
Dallas	34	23	.596	13	20-8	14-15	18-16	4-6	100.9	99.3	+1.6	Won 1	6-4
Phoenix	32	24	.571	14 ½	17-11	15-13	19-13	7-3	106.5	104.3	+2.2	Won 1	6-4