@<span style="color:#3333FF">Orlando Magic(10-4)</span><span style="color:#3333FF"><span style="color:#3366FF">Jameer Nelson, Grant Hill, Hedo Turkoglu, Tony Battie, Dwight Howard</span></span><span style="color:#000000">Key Bench Players: Darko Milicic, Trevor Ariza, Keith Bogans, Keyon Dooling, Carlos Arroyo</span>Utah Jazz(12-2)<span style="color:#000000">Deron Williams, Ronnie Brewer, Andrei Kirilenko, Carlos Boozer, Mehmet OkurKey Bench Players: Derek Fisher, Matt Harpring, Paul Milsap, Gordon Giriceck, CJ Miles</span><span style="color:#CC0000">Valo's X-Factors: </span> For the Utah Jazz, it will be rookie Ronnie Brewer. He will draw the bad task of having to guard Grant Hill, while trying to score on him at the other end. I think his play and energy will boost this team, and how he does will have a huge impact.For the Magic, I think it will be Darko Milicic. They will need alot out of this young man today, particularly on defense where he will probably be guarding Okur alot. Most people Darko gives problems to, hopefully today will be no different, and he will get Okur off his game. We are going to need him to step up big today off the bench down low to be successful.<span style="color:#009900">Valo's key matchup:</span> vs Carlos Boozer and Dwight Howard will be a huge matchup today, one that I expect to be very physical and demanding down low. This will be the matchup that determines how this game is played, and what will happen. Whoever controls the paint best for their team, will be the one that leads their team to victory.<span style="color:#663333">Valo's thoughts:</span> This should be a rough and physical game for us, specifically down low where we will need to play big. On the wings, we need to take smart shots, get to the rim and play the way we have been all season. Defensively we need to clamp down, and make them take hard shots. Keep this team away from the basket, and away from the paint. <span style="color:#000000">Valos Prediction</span>: I would like to say that the Magic will win this game, but I don't really see it happening. I think they will have to much at the two big spots, in Boozer and Okur for the Magic to compete with at this point in time. I see the Jazz coming away with this game.
So last night we had a good game, beating the Jazz 88-75, in an outstanding team effort. We played good defense, everyone helped out on the boards as we finished with 45 total rebounds. We controlled the paint, took better shots, and made our shots. We only turned the ball over 14 times, which is alot better than we usually do, we scored 40 points in the paint. I am very happy with this game, as usual. Darko played very good defense in my opinion, especially on Okur when he was in the game. Next we are going to be playing the Sonics on Wednsday night, which we should win and I think we will, but it's the NBA and any team can win on any given night.
