Utah Jazz (25-26) @ Portland TrailBlazers (24-25) When: Tuesday 10 February, 10:00 PM (ET) Where: Rose Garden TV: KJZZ FSNW, NBALP Standings Blazers: 10th Western Conference (.490) Jazz: 9th Western Conference (.490) Jazz road record: 6-17 Blazers home record 16-8 Probable Starting Lineups Jazz / Blazers PG: Carlos Arroyo / Damon Stoudamire SG: Deshawn Stevenson / Derek Anderson SF: Andrei Kirilenko / Shareef Abdur Rahim PF: Michael Ruffin / Zach Randolph C: Greg Ostertag / Theo Ratliff Coach: Jerry Sloan / Maurice Cheeks * Trade Just happened, hard to know what lineup will be used by Portland. Injuries Jazz: Curtis Borchardt, Keon Clark, Ben Handlogten, Matt Harpring Blazers: Travis Outlaw Keys to the game Jazz. 1. Throwing it away. It's happened a lot this season, Utah get a big lead and then slowly the other teams come back, they let Phoenix do it and almost lost. They can't do it against the Blazers. 2. Contributions. In the game against Phoenix, Utah wasn't relying on Andrei Kirilenko to do it all himself. Others made good contributions and they won. Portland. 1. Firepower. The Blazers have a team that can beat anyone with their firepower. If they can use it against Utah, they should win easily enough. 2. Play a team game. They've been doing it recently, and they are winning. If they go back to their old game, Utah are the kind of team that'll beat them. Key Matchup: SF: Andrei Kirilenko vs. Darius Miles Prediction. Portland pull through, but the Jazz just dont go away the whole game. Portlant by 7.
Jazz win, 86-81. Portland's newest recruits didn't play. Arroyo was clutch tonight. AK47 and Zach Randolph had pretty even stats. The Jazz had more boards as usual, and shot 84% from the line which was encouraging. --------------------------------------------------------------- I wont be able to do the Jazz @ Timberwolves preview, so if anyone wants to do it that'd be very much appreciated.
Thats good to see the Jazz win a close game, every win against an Western confernce team is a good win. I didn't see the game, but by watching the bottom line on espn, it looked as the game was close through out. I wish the Jazz could some way slide into that 8th and final playoff spot.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting coolhandluke:</div><div class="quote_post">This will be a very close game, but i say the the blazers win by 4</div> The games been played .
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting coolhandluke:</div><div class="quote_post">This will be a very close game, but i say the the blazers win by 4</div> Haha, it's already over pal. Anyway, having Portland lose was just as important as a win for the Jazz, so I'm happy for them. I'm also dissapointed with Randolph though. This was his chance to show that he could carry a team by himself. Oh well, as soon as Abdur-Rahim comes to town things should be back to normal.
