Utah Jazz Blog

Game 2: Lakers 119, Jazz 109

The Lakers were expected to win games 1 & 2 at home and that’s exactly what they did by downing the Jazz on Tuesday night. It was one of those games that it seems everything is going against the Jazz, yet somehow they stayed in this game far longer than they should have. The Lakers shot [...]

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Game 1: Lakers 113, Jazz 100

It was a second half to build upon. It was a first half to forget. After the Jazz started the opening few minutes strong, the Lakers imposed their will on the visiting 8th seed and built a 22 point halftime lead. In the second half, the Jazz fought back to narrow the margin to as few [...]

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Los Angeles Lakers 125, Utah Jazz 112

The seemingly inevitable fate of facing the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs is now reality for the Utah Jazz.  You can blame the circumstances on this road loss coming on a back to back (really the Jazz had no shot given their record in this situation against a [...]

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Minnesota Timberwolves 103, Utah Jazz 102

This wasn’t supposed to happen.  This game really was more important than the Portland or Denver games because a Jazz loss would mean uncertainty in the one place the Jazz were certain, Energy Solutions Arena.  But it isn’t the end of the world either. Minnesota did not play like the 21-54 team that they were supposed to [...]

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Denver Nuggets 114, Utah Jazz 104

Well, that happened. The Utah Jazz were able to jump out on the Denver Nuggets by 11 in the first quarter… and then J.R. Smith started raining threes. Smith was the dagger in the side of the Jazz as he dropped 28 points on 8-13 behind the arc… but he was hardly the only problem the [...]

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Portland Trail Blazers 125, Utah Jazz 104

The Portland Trail Blazers shot 61.8% from the field.   It was the fourth highest shooting percentage that the Utah Jazz have given up since the 1986-87 season.  Not only that, it was the highest since the Jazz allowed Houston to shoot 62.7% in the 1994-95 season.  Utah has never won when allowing opponents [...]

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Phoenix Suns 118, Utah Jazz 114

  Ouch. Another winnable road game down the drain. Such a great game full of so much bad defense, unexpected heroes (for the Suns) and disappointments (for the Jazz). Honestly, I thought that the Suns lost the game with 8:10 left in the game when they took their best player out, Louis Amundson.  Amundson won this game for [...]

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Orlando Magic 105, Utah Jazz 87

Not too much to say about the whipping that Orlando put on the Jazz.  It was a game that seemed over just a few possessions in to the game when Orlando jumped out to a 8-2 lead.  Seconds later, it was over for Jerry Sloan who was ejected just 2:12 into the game.  It was [...]

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Miami “El Heat” 140, Utah Jazz 129 (3 OT)

This was one of the hardest losses that the Jazz have had to explain in a long, long time.  The game was seemingly wrapped up as a Jazz “W”, not once but twice… but Miami escaped with a triple overtime victory behind Dwayne Wade’s 50 points. There were so many mental lapses by the Jazz that [...]

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Atlanta Hawks 100, Utah Jazz 93

Jerry Sloan and the bunch rolled into Atlanta looking for win number 13 in a row, they left the court with loss number one in a row. Horrendous start by the Jazz. This is what usually leads to Utah road losses; they find themselves down 14-4 halfway through the first quarter as they did on Tuesday [...]

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