<div align="center"></div> This game sees the 43-21 Utah Jazz take on the 40-25 Cleveland Cavaliers at The Quicken Loans Arena. <div align="center"><font color="#5591C9"><u>Utah Jazz</u> C Mehmet Okur PF Carlos Boozer SF Andrei Kirilenko SG Derek Fisher PG Deron Williams </font> @ <font color="#B94056">C Zydrunas Ilgauskas PF Drew Gooden SF LeBron James SG Aleksandar Pavlovic PG Larry Hughes <u>Cleveland Cavaliers</u> </font></div> <u>Prediction</u> The Cavaliers and Jazz have met 7 times since LeBron James entered the League. The Cavs have won 5 of these games, whilst the Jazz have won 2. The teams average 97.4 and 87.3 points per game respectively. LeBron James averages 29.3 points, 6.4 boards and 4.6 assists against the Jazz. Carlos Boozer should be involved in this game, the first time he will have played against the Cavaliers following his somewhat controversial departure from the team in .2004 I predict a Cavs win tonight, as they are on the League?s current second-longest winning streak (W7) whilst the Jazz have lost 3 straight. <font color="#5591C9">89</font>-<font color="#B90456">99</font>
good win for Cleveland last night, they helped the rockets out also, and that's always good.....I still don't see how Utah gets so much respect over teams like the Rockets,Cavs, etc......I'd take either one of those teams in a series over Utah, because they still don't have a go to man down the stretch......Bron had a couple of highlights and Z was actually good for a change.....
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting :</div><div class="quote_post">good win for Cleveland last night, they helped the rockets out also, and that's always good.....I still don't see how Utah gets so much respect over teams like the Rockets,Cavs, etc......I'd take either one of those teams in a series over Utah, because they still don't have a go to man down the stretch......Bron had a couple of highlights and Z was actually good for a change.....</div> If Memo Okur isn't a go to guy down the stretch, I don't know who is. He's made so many clutch shots for Utah this year, and with his size and shooting touch he's hard to defend.
Oh yuck a Utah fan...with the screen name of "Stockton"......lol....I've watched a lot of Utah games this year and when I see them in close games it seems like the lack of a "super super star" hurts them down the stretch...Okur is good, but I'd choose a long list of players as go to guys before him....
I get what your saying, but having no superstar has its advantages. If you take a team such as the Lakers, while they have other players that can score, you know the offense when it matters most is almost always going to revolve around Kobe. The Jazz on the other hand have no true superstar, but instead a lot of options. If they put a lineup of Williams, Fisher, Harpring, Boozer and Okur on, you can't really focus on one player in particular as the whole lineup can score. While Okur has made big plays in the clutch a lot this season, the others are capable as well. You double team someone, and there should be another player who can score left open. If the other team has a weak player defensively, the Jazz have got options from one through five and someone should be able to exploit it. All of them have enough range to hit a three pointer as well, except for Boozer, who is at his best around the paint anyway. With all of those players averaging double digits in points, but no more than Boozer's 20.9 PPG they've got solid options offensively at every position with that lineup, and that's hard to guard.
