<div align="center"> at <font color=""RoyalBlue"">Dallas Mavericks</font> (27-8) at <font color=""Navy"">Utah Jazz</font> (24-10)</div> Date: Tuesday 9th January, 7:00 PM (MST) Location: EnergySolutions Arena Local TV: KJZZ / KTXA National TV: NBATV Last Game <font color=""RoyalBlue"">Mavs:</font> Mavs 98 at Lakers 101 <font color=""Navy"">Jazz:</font> Jazz 96 at Nuggets 84 Streak <font color=""RoyalBlue"">Mavs:</font> Lost 1 <font color=""navy"">Jazz:</font> Won 1 Last Ten <font color=""RoyalBlue"">Mavs:</font> 9-1 <font color=""Navy"">Jazz:</font> 6-4 Last Met December 11: Mavs 79 at Jazz 101 <div align="center">Projected Starters <font color=""RoyalBlue"">Mavs</font> <font size=""1"">Devin Harris, Jason Terry, Josh Howard, Dirk Nowitzki, Erick Dampier</font> <font color=""Navy"">Jazz</font> <font size=""1"">Deron Williams, Gordan Giricek, Andrei Kirilenko, Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur</font></div> Prediction Mavs by 4
Mavs are playing fricken amazing. All I can do is hope that with homecourt advantage..... Jazz make this a ball game. Jazz by 2.
We're at home? I thought we played them at home last time, I could of swore it was a road game.....oh well, I think the Giricek move will really help our bench. I think we'll start wheelin' off some wins again Jazz by 8
Jazz are at home, where they are 14-2 this season. Strong start to the second quarter and the Jazz are up 35 - 28.
Close but no cigar, 108-105 Mavs steal one in Utah. I think we should of won, no excuse for some of the supid plays we made. What was Deron Williams thinking going for that layup with Dampier there? That was a 4 point swing in the last 20 seconds. Okur missed that shot at the end of the game, but you can't do much with 0.3 left, I didn't even know you could shoot with less than 0.4 left. Now you go back to that Knicks thread and you can tell them 0.4 is a lot
Jazz played well. The officiating was terrible towards the end of the game. The clean swipe by Boozer on Dirk. The foul called on AK against Harris even though AK didn't even come in contact with him. The charges on Derek Fisher. Very dissapointing, they handed the Mavs several free free throws in the 4th. Could have been very different.
<div class="quote_poster">Marbire Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Jazz played well. The officiating was terrible towards the end of the game. The clean swipe by Boozer on Dirk. The foul called on AK against Harris even though AK didn't even come in contact with him. The charges on Derek Fisher. Very dissapointing, they handed the Mavs several free free throws in the 4th. Could have been very different.</div> Yeah, that really hurt but why the hell did Harpring and Fisher start chucking up so many shots in the end with Boozer on fire? When they gave Boozer the ball again in the end, he scored 2 or 3 baskets.
Tough loss, but yet another memorable quote from Jerry Sloan. "They are going to grab and hold," Stackhouse said. "That's what they are taught to do. They play a fake physical game. . . . That's coward basketball, the way they play." Told that Stackhouse believes the Jazz play "coward basketball," Sloan shrugged and said, "Whatever he says is right."
