Round 2: Ready or not

One huge headache.

That is the Jazz's reward for beating Houston in Saturday night's Game 7, their prize for winning their first opening-round NBA playoff series since 2000, their payoff for taming Tracy McGrady and finally figuring out Yao Ming.

So search for the aspirin, dim the lights and wait for the world to stop spinning.

The Golden State Warriors are coming to town, fresh from upending top-seeded Dallas in what may go down as the greatest upset in NBA playoff history, and perhaps the best thing for Utah to do is simply buckle up and go along for the ride.

So the Jazz would have had you believe Sunday, when they turned their attention away from the afterglow of a nip-and-tuck win over the Rockets and focused instead — apologies, Phoenix Suns — on basketball's new version of greased lightning.

"We've been watching a lot of tape of (the Warriors)," Carlos Boozer said after the Jazz practiced Sunday afternoon for a best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series that starts tonight at EnergySolutions Arena.

"They play very fast. They have guys that can do everything — dribble, shoot, pass, attack. They have a very good team, much better than their (42-40 regular-season) record showed. They did a great job with Dallas, trying to take them out defensively of their stuff a little bit, and offensively, it seemed like they pushed it every time they got the ball.

"The tempo (against the Mavericks) was so high speed. They had guys running on every possession," added Boozer, Utah's leading scorer during the regular season and in the first playoff round. "Even if Dallas scored the bucket, they were still down the floor with two or three seconds off the clock. They did a great job of making the tempo of how they wanted to play."

Coach Don Nelson's eighth-seeded Warriors — a vastly improved team following an in-season trade in which they acquired Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington from Indiana, then teamed those two with Baron Davis, Jason Richarson, Monta Ellis, Matt Barnes, Andris Biedrins and Mickael Pietrus for one of the tightest eight-man rotations in the playoffs — arrive with a reputation for setting the tempo and daring opponents to keep up.

"They're playing probably the best basketball in the league right now, just the way they took down Dallas, which was the best team all year," point guard Deron Williams said. "They cause matchup problems for a lot of people the way they play, the pace they play. They cause massive problems because of the lineup they put out there. But we've got to try to be ready to guard it."