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Utah Jazz: Tough game, fine finish

To Jazz fans...You are being represented down here in So-Cal

I wore my Utah Jazz shirt all over town on Mothers day and had all kinds of nasty looks!!

Look on laker fans, as the Jazz are looking to take you out!!

I have washed the shirt, and will wear it Monday at work, where I have a great rivalry with some friends

Utah native, So-Cal Jazz Fan!! Rock On!!

Yes it was a great game, a nail-biter right to the end. They don't get much better. I loved every minute of it. Hopefully, the Jazz will take what they learned from this game back to LA and steal one there.

WHAT A WIN JAZZ! GO OUT AND WIN AGAIN IN LOS ANGELAS AND BRING THEM BACK HERE FOR THE SLAUGHTER! The lakers and Phil JAckson need some big time humbling!

Comparing Williams to any other player is futile. His playing speaks for itself -- he is a remarkable player who repeatedly has proved the Jazz brass right for trading up to draft him. I enjoy watching him because he always tries to do what is best for the team and is as competitive a player as you'll find in the NBA. He has flourished under Jerry Sloan's tutelage, and his coach is wise enough to give him free reign for demonstrating his high basketball IQ.

Game 5. The Jazz must play an almost perfect game to beat the Lakers in their home gym, where the officials will give them the benefit of at least a dozen close calls. Some of my friends won't watch the NBA because the referees give the home teach so many calls and because they give the NBA's appointed superstars, such as Kobe, the star treatment. Some say the bad officiating is not only condoned by the NBA but encouraged by the home office. Frank Layden said he was extremely upset by the referees until he realized it was good for the entire NBA for every to team win most of its home games.

It is just a game. But it certainly was a sweet one.
Go Jazz!!!

it was sad to see so many flaker fans there on Sunday. but it turned out to be great as we were leaving ESA and the look on their poor, scared faces. the JAZZ need to take this game on wendnesday.
Talk about poor sports, fighting in the restrooms, i have never seen so many flaker fans crying and talking trash at one time. you would think they thought they would win here in UTAH. FLAKER fans take your little kobe and go home and cry yourselfs to sleep on that giant chair of phil jacksons.

You are such a tough guy wearing your Jazz gear around. Please tell me you opted for the powder blue. Since when is wearing your gear in another city qualify you as anything other than a complete whiff? Nobody cares if you like the Jazz bro...nobody.

Brad Rock is a stooge.

I got a great idea, if you think it's so rigged don't watch!.

Re: PowerHouse

I care 'bro'. Wear it with pride!!

This is all great stuff. But they can't seem to win in LA. You are all going to eat your words unless they can get their act together on away games.

What a great game Sunday. For those doubters about the Jazz winning an away game did you watch any of the games with Houston. As for D Will being the MVP it will come maybe next year lets just get the championship this year . Gooo Jazz !!!!

The last two wins are worth celebration, and excitement, but please stay humble fans because this thing is far from over. I love everything about D Will and his game except one thing that sticks out too often and that is his defense. He isn't that quick and often gets too far off his man to recover- thus gets lit up way too often. Stay more at home Deron. Go for it Jazz.

That was a great win, great fan support. Heap all the abuse on Kobe you want but booing a classy guy like Derek Fisher makes you look like a bunch of IDIOTS!

Yeah 'bro' chill out. We care. All Jazz fans care. We need to represent anywhere we are. Go Jazz!!

We boo fisher because he was once one of us, but now he's on the dark side.

We boo Fisher because he plays out of his mind against the Jazz. I grew up in So Cal, I pull for the Lakers except for against the Jazz, lived here 20 years now and it's Jazz first, Lakers second. Fisher doesn't play nearly this well against other NBA teams. I can't believe how many big shots he hits against the Jazz.

I don't boo fisher. He played hard for the Jazz. He is respectful to his former teammates and to Jazz fans.

Booing him is childish and lacks class. I do see many Jazz fans respectfully clapping when Fisher's name is announced, so not everyone has sour grapes toward the man making what he felt was the best decision for his family. Get loud, but don't be poor sports people.

Bottom line, Jazz play a full not just 3 of the 4 quarters and our bench shows up to a game on the road the come home up 3-2 and win in game 6. If not it is LA in seven

It won't matter in the end. The league will see to it that LA wins. It is rigged. The sad thing is is that they do a good enough job rigging it that it almost looks real. So people keep spending money to see a real game, but in reality it is rigged. Imagine if they actually played a real game, with the refs doing a straight up job. Who would have won in 97 and 98? Who would win this year? That is what we pay money for...uncertainty. Unfortunately there is "certainty" in the way it is officiated now so the outcome is ultimately known ahead of time.