Game 3: Utah Jazz @ Golden State Warriors

<div align="center"><span style="font-size:24pt;line-height:100%">Utah Jazz vs. Golden State Warriors</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Arial Black">Game one - Friday May 11th</span></div></span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">Starters:Utah Jazz:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">PG - Deron Williams - 16.5-8.5-5Importance - The light 6'3" 205 pound Williams must attempt to outmuscle and outhustle the active hands of davis. The turnover happy guard must keep said turnovers to a minimum, as he'll be guarded by three of the league's 20 best thieves, including the league leader in steals primarily, and must not play into the Warriors' game. If he can keep up his rebounds it'll be benificial as that way he takes away the Warriors' advantage of rebounding guards.SG - Derek Fisher - Playoff Stats - 9.5-2Importance - ummmmm...... stay off the court and don't try to play with the big boys. Don't take any shots or get any turnovers and try not to get burnt. I have an inkling that Harpring will start.SF - Andrei Kirilenko - 5-3-2Importance - Needs to be the AK47 of old, which he has done a couple times this past series. Will have to play more perimeter defense than normal.PF - Carlos Boozer - 25-11Importance - He's gonna get his points, but he needs to ablsolutely dominate the boards, and keep the pace going to Utah's favor. He also needs to keep the turnovers down, I could see him averaging 3 per game this series, and is gonna have to hope Matt Barnes' shot isn't dropping as there's no way he can keep up with him on the perimeter.C - Mehmet Okur - 11-8-1.5-1.5Importance - Pretty much the same as Boozer's imperative, dominate and force the Warriors to play at their pace.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">Coming off The Bench:Matt Harpring - one of the Keys to Utah's success, he dominates the Warriors every time they play. I think he'll start.Gordan Giricek - continue to shoot the lights out in his limited minutes.Millsap/Collins - Play slowly for your few minutes.Rounding out the Keys for Utahace. Pace. And more pace. They and the Warriors are both teams relying on offense, the difference is that Utah relies on efficiency to their offense and the Warriors rely on speed. The Jazz are a mediocre defensive team so if it gets into a shootout the Warriors can score 130 points on them.X Factor - Deron Williams - If he can't stop Baron, and can't keep his turnovers down, the Warriors will be able to run them into the ground. He needs to play slow grind it out Utah ball and take care of the ball. <span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">Starters:Golden State Warriors:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">PG - Baron Davis - 25-6-6-2Importance - Be healthy. That's all we need. If Baron has healthy legs we can get up on them early and that's that. If he's limited we'll have a tough time of it. And keep grabbing the rebounds.SG - Jason Richardson - 20-7Importance - Continue with the rebounds, we need all the boards we can get. And murder _Erek Fissure, and play good defense on Harpring.SF - Stephen Jackson - 23-5-4Importance - Keep up the boards, and keep playing like an allstar. Ideally get AK47 into foul trouble.PF - Matt Barnes - 10-6-3Importance - Continue this great play until Monta and/or Harrington gets into their groove. If Matt can nail some threes on Boozer it'll be tough for them to stop us without a zone, which of course we can pick apart.C - Andris Biedrins - 7-5Importance - Play like you did later on in the series and box out for once in your life.Coming off The Bench:</span>Monta Ellis - PG - Get into your A game and take your starting spot back. You can dominate Fisher and get Baron some rest.Michael Pietrus - SF - Continue your strong play of the last couple games. nail some threes to spread out their defense.Al Harrington - C - Stop choking; if we can get him to start at center we'll be unstoppable.X Factor:Matt Barnes - He's often the glue guy to a bunch of runs. He needs to cut the ball off from Boozer as best as possible and shred him on offense as we know he can.</span><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%">Key Matchup:Barnes vs. Boozer</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">It's this matchup where the pace of the game will be decided and the pace of the game is what will decide the game.</span></span><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%">Prediction:Warriors over Jazz: 111-98</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">The Warriors will make some early threes and get an early lead and from that point it's smooth sailing. Utah is a good come from ahead team, but cannot make a comeback once they're losing by a significant amount as they can't push the pace. I think we'll make some early threes and they won't be able to recover. It'll either be 111-98 warriors or 97-93 Jazz if Baron isn't healthy.</span>As of now I still don't think anything has changed my opinion on anybody since three days ago so the same preview is appropriate. I'm just too floored with stuff to do to make one today.

 

I think the Warriors may actually get this game, because the Jazz are just dead tired. but I also think a tired Jazz team may try to slow this game down a bit, and try to grind it out. Utah has to keep its TOs to a minimum, no way are they going to be able to double GS on turnovers and expect to win this game. had the Jazz not turned the ball over so much in game 2, the game would have been a total blowout. If Utah does win this game however, the series will end on Sunday.

 

I think that SJax is going to have a monster game in response to all the Utah fans who were calling him a n***** the first two games. It's messed up how when that happens to SJax nobody cares.

 

I read that someone called him that, but to be honest I doubt SJax even cares. Players get taunted all the time, if they let it get to them than they need to seek help. I think Jax threw that out there as a rally cry for the entire Warriors team.

 

Golden State is gonna need to get both home games and then try to quickly steal one on the road before it's to late. I doubt this team wins a game 7 in Utah if it happens, but I don't see them losing at home at all this series. Golden State wins this one, Baron goes off.

 

Baron went off in game 2. It didn't matter though as the Jazz dominated the boards. I think it will be like this the whole series. The Warriors might actually outshoot the jazz but the Jazz will dominate the boards and get a lot of putbacks.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mavsfan1000 @ May 11 2007, 07:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Baron went off in game 2. It didn't matter though as the Jazz dominated the boards. I think it will be like this the whole series. The Warriors might actually outshoot the jazz but the Jazz will dominate the boards and get a lot of putbacks.</div>Its been like that in every series. So far it's been all about getting rebounds because the team with the most rebounds will win the ballgame. Warriors have gone small against Dallas, and that worked very well. But the main reason it worked so well is because Dirk doesn't really have a offensive low post game. Thats why it worked so well, and then when Dallas went small[start of 4th in game 6] Golden State just took over because thats just what they wanted. Anyway, Baron is gonna need some help and they need to try to keep up with Utah on the glass.

 

Bavetta=worst ref in nba.

 

The Jazz have to slow down this game, and take the crowd out of this game. If they are cheering and yelling loud, it is going to feed the emotions of this team, pump them up and really fuel this Warriors team. Right now the Jazz have been able to get out into transition and do pretty well in this first half. The Jazz have got to get back on defense better, that first three by Jason Richardson should have never been so wide open. He was able to get the ball, stop completely, and take a good 5 seconds to shoot wide open. Someone should have been on him pretty quickly. They have got to guard the three point line better, these guys are getting open shots from three. Part of why the Warriors are able to get out and run early here, is because of long shots. The Jazz are settling for alot of long shots that are allowing the Warriors to get the ball in better position to start running right away. They need to slow it down, and work it into Boozer, Kirilenko, and Okur on the block to control some pace and use some clock.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>It's messed up how when that happens to SJax nobody cares.</div>Probably because heckling is apart of the game. Look at Philly and NY crowds. At their own players.

 

That stupid crowd meter thing :ranting: :ranting: It takes up half of my TV! Stupid idea! Who cares what the decibles are? Goodness!

 

And wtf at these refs?GSW is playing great but the refs are scared to make a call against them in fear of disrupting the crowd or the pace. A foul is a foul! Ball don't lie!!!!

 

Seriously kid..that thing barely takes up any part of the screen..you're just mad because Golden State got the better end of the Indiana/GSW deal..I've said it time and time again and you continue to prove me right

 

Holy sh*t, Jason Richardson is hitting everything and they have 11 threes at the half. And we still got like 4 seconds to go. Awesome job, Golden State up 18 I believe.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ May 11 2007, 10:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Seriously kid..that thing barely takes up any part of the screen..you're just mad because Golden State got the better end of the Indiana/GSW deal..I've said it time and time again and you continue to prove me right</div>what? I have a small tv and it covers almost all of my tv

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rok @ May 11 2007, 06:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Probably because heckling is apart of the game. Look at Philly and NY crowds. At their own players. </div>yeah, but there's a precedent for kicking fans out of the stadium when they use racial slurs.

 

This game is rigged. Warriors getting all the calls. I'm done watching it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mavsfan1000 @ May 11 2007, 10:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This game is rigged. Warriors getting all the calls. I'm done watching it.</div>Someones a little upset... I don't think 11 threes are getting all the calls... Hows that Baron Davis hate club coming along, btw?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cavsrules @ May 12 2007, 02:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Someones a little upset... I don't think 11 threes are getting all the calls... Hows that Baron Davis hate club coming along, btw? </div>15 turnovers? No point guard available? (foul trouble)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mavsfan1000 @ May 11 2007, 07:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This game is rigged. Warriors getting all the calls. I'm done watching it.</div>rigging can't make a 21 point halftime lead. Refs can make at most a 10 point difference.