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Utah Jazz: Back on track — Jazz endure late scare to take 3-1 series advantage

And to cap it off, the refs missed an obvious offensive goal tending (interference) call at the end of the game that would have taken two points away from Houston. But why cry over spilled milk?

The game should have never been this close.... And not because the Jazz played poorly, but because the refs blew a huge call! On Landry's layup with 3:12 to play he CLEARLY steps out of bounds, his whole right foot is over the baseline and it didn't get called. Go back and watch the highlight, I'll give you a moment to find it....

It doesn't matter in the bigger picture because the Jazz still go the W, but it just makes me mad that the whole city of Houston cried for 3 days after the Scola/Kirelinko play, and this just goes to show that you can't let one play determine the outcome of a game. Great win tonight, now lets send T-Mac home for the second year in a row!

Where did Boozer's game go? It seems like the last three weeks it has been MIA. I sure hope he can get it back for the Lakers series.

boozer has got to start to be more effective, too many misses, but at least he canned his freebies

If we would have made 1/3 our 3 pointers we would have won by 15, 1/2 20, 3/4 30. Houston was lucky they were lucky Korver was off tonight or it wouldn't have been a game. We still have yet to play a good game against this team and still have managed to win 3 out of 4. Is Houston that bad? or are we that good?

I swear that some jazz player always has the stomach flu. They must have a bad team diet.

Another Boozer no show. 13 pts won't cut it in THE PLAYOFFS.

The jazz are done next series. Sad but true.

Does anyone else miss a power forward who plays like a power forward and not a 12 year old school girl? I don't expect Karl Malone flying through the lane with a hammer dunk, but shouldn't a sculpted 6' 9" 260 lb man be able to use his body a bit more to get good layups or at least more free thrown opportunities? i don't quite understand the presistent fall away jump shots (okay malone did that too, but not this early in his career).

The Jazz have relatively no inside strong inside threat, the fact that they get significant points in the pain is deceptive because of their great cutting, not any strong player inside.

If Booz is reading this, and I love your game, but want you for once, just once, to run over Mutumbo, dunk on him or give him an elbow like Karl would have done. I guarantee he will get out of the way next time.

Honestly who can stand Tracy??? The guy is so full of him self.. Is any one surprised that he is 0-6 in the post season with that attidude? & what is he thinking about acting like he doesn't know who D-will is?? What was that all about in his post game interviews?? Not very smart on his part.. D-Will nice work last night you were the star of the GAME... Thank You

the biggest reason wht boozer is not playing good is because the rockets are throwing everything i mean everythin at him like there is not a moment when there is not about three guys on him but it looks like working but were still winning

Boozer's game is somewhat of an enigma right now he's getting shots blocked not finishing at the rim. Last year he dunked all over the Rockets this years he is just laying balls up. What happened to the Boozer who attached the rim with reckless abandon. I'm starting to wonder if he isn't a little bit injured because he doesn't seem to have the same explosiveness. Houston plays good Defense I have to give it up to them for that, but Jazz players in general should be finishing better.

I agree sob.

Not only has Boozer disappeared but so has Milsap. A combined 4-16 is not going to lift them to the next level at that position. When the design of the offense is to go through the power forward position to the inside and then out. You have to get some scores or the opposing team just has to guard the perimeter cause thats where the Jazz are all standing. That is what has happened the last two games. Not sure why Dwill has gone away from what worked in the games in Houston and that is pushing the ball up the court before there defense is set and catching them off guard and the last two games were lucky to get the ball across before the 8 sec. call. Maybe his booty is hurting but pushing the ball has definitely worked better. We have not seen the Jazzes best game yet so hopefully there are some good things to come. Go JAZZ

So if the Jazz are making their 3's then they miss a bunch of free throws and if they make most of their free throws then they miss all their 3's?? Ok here's the new plan: make your 3's AND your free throws!

And what about the officiating for this series?!! These officials really STINK!!! I've never seen so many bad calls and missed calls in playoff games. Is it because it's Utah and the really good refs don't want to come here? ("YOU go officiate in Utah!") I thought the NBA was supposed to pull together the best refs they have for the playoffs. Uh oh, here's the bad news: I think they did.

Great noise your guys made, the rest of us Jazz fans are proud of you for that. BUT, QUIT CHANTING MVP WHILE D-WILL IS TRYING TO SINK FREEBEES. YOU ALMOST COST US THE GAME!!!!! Now Houston Fan knows what to do, chant MVP while he is at the line. Sometimes Jazz Fan is too stupid to breath.

Boozer, good job on the free throws and your D looked a little bit better. You are still a sissy when it means going to the hole. Are you afraid of Mutombo? MAN UP BOOZ! You keep taking the 12-15 foot fader when you could go to the hole to get fouled. Your shooting is horrible, but I will give you credit for the free throws. You could be unstoppable if you wanted to be. Good thing Memo had desire or we would have lost no matter what the refs did or didn't do.

Jazz fan, quit complaining over refs. Yes they blew calls but I am sure they didn't go into the ESA to purposely make bad calls. I saw bad calls and no calls on both sides.

GO JAZZ!!!

I was at the game in person and realized a few things.Houston really does play great defense but the Jazz are surely the most underrated defensive team in the league as well. That was truly a defensive battle that you usually don't see till the finals. It is not the same cakewalk that the lakers are getting with Denver.If the Jazz can close this one out with Houston and face the Lakers I think the Lakers are in for a surprise.
Also too those complaining about the threes you need to open your eyes. Like I said, I was there in person and Houston played them close (really close).No Jazz player got an open look from 3 land last nght.The Jazz played a hard fought game and Houston is alot tougher than the rest of TVLand is giving them credit for.

hmmm jazz fans are making excuses for missed 3 pters. if the rockets had won, they would be "MISSED CONTESTED 3s COSTS THE GAME". jazz fans are talking about "man boozer is doing bad" and "Boozer is haveing an off game." do you jazz fans ever wonder that ROX D shut him out? if you actually watched the game you ccould see boozer is just settling for contested jumpers.

also, jazz doesnt play great defense. they are not a good defensive team. jazz fans are blinded by what they do. jazz are a physical team or as most other people put it, DIRTY. after every foul the jazz commit, they have a confused look on their face like they didnt foul. What really put the icing on the cake is when BOOZER INTENTIONALLY FOULED CARL LANDRY TO PREVENT AN EASY DUNK, OFFICIALS CALLED NOTHING. boozer looked confused as to no call. dispite teh refs, rockets again shot poorly from the FT line, shot poorly from teh field, got outrebounded, COMMITED MORE FOULS THAN THE LEAADING FOULING TEAM IN THE NBA, dispite all of this, rox were 1 reb from sneaking in a win. if anything, jazz will choke in 7

all i can say is watching the jazz is flat out frustrating

The Jazz had a lot of good looks from the 3 point line. If they would have made any of those the game would've been iced a lot earlier.

Props on shooting an absolute zero from 3 point line and still winning the game.

Boozer=soft. Just accept it. That way his weak games like last night, won't be so hard to understand. If D-Will could give Booz 1/8 of his heart, Boozer would be the best PF in the game. Won't happen.

We're up three to one against the team that won 22 straight games in the regular season.

It has been an awesome, methodical destruction, physical and mental, of a very good team.

Is anybody watching?

Go Jazz!