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Utah Jazz: Team looking to avoid slow starts

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SLC Adeedo | 12:57 a.m. May 9, 2008
People don't understand that many free throws were given to the Lakers in the last two minutes of each game due to the Jazz players fouling the Lakers players intentionally to extend the game. The discrepancy will probably be not as drastic as it is if the Jazz players stop fouling at the end of the game.

I probably think Jerry Sloan is ordering his players to foul at the end of the game to make the foul totals seem skewed and the amount of free throws taken seem outrageous. This is nonsense. The Lakers are the better team and the Jazz are known to foul a lot. The series will end soon in favor of LA.
ouch! | 3:51 a.m. May 9, 2008
The Jazz committed six fouls in the final 5 minutes of the last game, the Lakers commited 2. That leaves a 37-13 foul discrepency for the rest of the game.
Your comments | 5:34 a.m. May 9, 2008
are nonsense. If the first two games, there was already a big difference in the amount of times LA was going to the line as opposed to Utah. I'm not saying Utah wasn't fouling, but certainly Utah didn't get much love when they were trying to take it inside. Anyway, as far as your theory that Jerry Sloan told his players to foul at the end of the game just to inflate the number of fouls is ridiculous. That's what teams do at the end of games in hopes they end up missing some free throws. LA will probably win the series if they continue to shoot free throws at the rate they are.
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Jay-Cville, VA | 8:04 a.m. May 9, 2008
I don't know why the Fans of the Utah Jazz are so surprised that the Lakers are up 2-0, they dominated the Jazz during the regular season 3 games to 1, and this series will be no different. I'm a Laker Fan for life, but I love the Jazz as well, they are a great team, they just ran across the hottest team in the NBA at the moment. It could have been really bad if Ariza and Bynum were playing, the Lakers are not playing with their full roster and they are still winning, this is a sign of a really young great team in the making. If the Jazz find away to beat the Laker, than I�m picking the Jazz to go all the way to the title.
AS | 11:51 a.m. May 9, 2008
Well, i'm a bit disappointed in the Jazz's recent progress. If the Jazz don't find a way to contain the Laker's offensive machine, especially Kobe, than the Jazz will encounter the same fate as the Nuggets, a sweep by the Lakers, that is. So, no matter what happens, I will always be proud of the Jazz, for they're my hometown team through thick and thin.

Kobestopper | 3:38 p.m. May 9, 2008
The Jazz need to step it up and not 'hand' the series to them!
Listen, after just 2 games Kobe is 32/35 free throws!(There is absolutely no way to win if you let him have that many opportunities!)
If you can slow Kobe down, stop Fisher's and Vujacic's three's and rebound and get Gasol into foul trouble you have a recipe for winning.

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