Game 4 Jazz and Spurs

So what happened in Game 3? Wow, from the third quarter on the Jazz laced up the gold colored shoes and ran the figurative last 100 meters right past the Spurs like Michael Johnson in Atlanta in '96. I mean the Jazz really smoked the Spurs; if the Jazz's run would have started a quarter earlier I have every reason to believe that they would have beat the Spurs by 50. Duncan clearly wasn't too worried...in foul trouble early and often throughout the game, Duncan's exasperation was at about a 1 out of 10. He was lazy with the ball as he was even stuffed by Okur. Okur is having a terrible post season and he is just not the player he was before the all-star break.

Ginobili was ice cold and Parqueax was to worried about the ESA fans running his girlfriend out of town to put up a real fight.

Tonight is going to be a different story. The Spurs understood early in game 3 that the best they could do was to keep it close through the fourth where their horrible free throw shooting and the ESA home crowd would be huge factors. Pops and co. knew that they would at best steal a game in UT and Saturday it was not to be, so they wisely rested starters hoping to re-tool for game 4.


The key for the game remains in the hands of Deron Williams, currently listed as a game time decision. A game like this has legend making potential, just like Jordan's flu game and Willis Reed's finals appearance. If D Will plays, the Jazz win, if he doesn't, it will be interesting. Look for the Spurs to work the ball inside more and kill the Jazz from outside.