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It's over Jazz loss ends a stellar season
Jazz loss ends a stellar season
So the Jazz are gone for 2007.
Yet in another sense, they're back.
One thing the Spurs, Mavericks, Suns and everyone else in the talent-crowded Western Conference has to know deep down in their size 18 shoes: The Jazz are coming. They're young, confident and most important, now they've had a taste. Isn't that what Jerry Sloan feared all along? That his teams would forget or never know what it feels like when every single possession counts. When the Earth seems to tilt with each possession.
So now they know.
This postseason is the stuff they'll remember when they get old.
"Once you get a taste of how good it feels," said reserve guard Ronnie Brewer, "you just want to try to get back."
It has nonetheless been a memorable playoff run. The improbable comeback from a 2-0 deficit to Houston. Kirilenko's tearful struggle to fit into his role. Derek Fisher's lesson on facing the greatest of all fears a child's cancer with dignity.
Williams' start against Golden State, when suddenly it became clear he is everything the Jazz hoped for and more. Rookie Paul Millsap's demonstration that it's not age that matters but maturity. Carlos Boozer's unpredictable, sometimes unstoppable, left hand.
Javie, who tossed Fisher and Sloan at the end of Game 4, has become the new object of Jazz fans' scorn, replacing Bavetta, the villain of the 1998 NBA Finals.
Only in the playoffs.
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