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Exactly. Portland beat the Bulls by 42 at home.
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Exactly. Portland beat the Bulls by 42 at home.
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Losing Boozer isn't a bad thing for Utah anyways. His atrocious defense negates his offense he brings onto the court. I think they are a better team with Millsap and hope they resign Boozer in the offseason before they realize Boozer's defense is HORRIBLE
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welcome to the conversation...if you will kindly read the entire argument you will notice that this has been covered. Utah had serious health issues when they faced the teams you mention.
You know, some people here can nitpick all you want...pick a game here, pick a game there to back up ther opinion but its all BS. Im not gonna waste my time by being nitpicked. Im not a fool, I know how it works. One guy gets nitpicked by 5 others until he is just sick of refuting absurd claims rather than giving his reasons.
UTAH > POR period...sorry
Sure you can beat them, but not in a 7 game series, not this year anyways
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Hi realistic basketball fan! I too am a realistic basketball fan!
This Kingspeed guy is funny, has the ignorance of a Laker fan
Oh, he lives in Beverly Hills, makes sense...It doesn't matter who's beaten who or who has who left, both teams are in the race. You guys do realize Utah play @ Lakers last game of the year...why would the Lakers play their starters, risking injury, extended minutes during that game when they have nothing to play for? Spurs could be in the same boat the saturday b4 the season ends, so that's something to keep an eye on too. Their road games are against teams that they have had tons of success against in the past if you guys haven't noticed, Deron has made Paul his bitch in nearly every meeting so far in their careers, Suns don't have Amare..the one guy that they have problems with, and Denver haven't caused many problems for a healthy Jazz team.
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If they have home-court advantage I wholeheartedly agree, if Portland got homecourt against them I'd put even money on the Blazers winning in 7.
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This Kingspeed guy is funny, has the ignorance of a Laker fan
It doesn't matter who's beaten who or who has who left, both teams are in the race. You guys do realize Utah play @ Lakers last game of the year...why would the Lakers play their starters, risking injury, extended minutes during that game when they have nothing to play for? .
Lakers might have to win to get HCA throughout the playoffs.
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Are you people fucking crazy?!?!?
Losing a two time all star and Olympian basketball player isn't a bad thing?!?!
Jesus christ how can I argue when I have to go up against crazy opinions like that?!?
For fucks sake...
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This Kingspeed guy is funny, has the ignorance of a Laker fan
I post facts.
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This Kingspeed guy is funny, has the ignorance of a Laker fan
It doesn't matter who's beaten who or who has who left, both teams are in the race. You guys do realize Utah play @ Lakers last game of the year...why would the Lakers play their starters, risking injury, extended minutes during that game when they have nothing to play for? Spurs could be in the same boat the saturday b4 the season ends, so that's something to keep an eye on too. Their road games are against teams that they have had tons of success against in the past if you guys haven't noticed, Deron has made Paul his bitch in nearly every meeting so far in their careers, Suns don't have Amare..the one guy that they have problems with, and Denver haven't caused many problems for a healthy Jazz team.
So what, you guys got rocked by Miami today (Where Chalmers should be arrested for thievery). Things happen you guys could even lose to the Lakers scrubs, just like portland lost to the warriors.
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Doesn't matter who's healthy or not, a win is a win....
The race could be decided by then, that's just why it's something to keep an eye on.
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really bad timing with this comment...since Im the Lakers fan
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Exactly. We don't have to be healthy to beat great teams. But DaRizzle makes excuses for Utah. Bottom line- Blazers have a better record than Utah.
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Perfect timing actually.
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LOL, so your saying Boozer doesn't have shitty defense? It's ATROCIOUS. Watch him sometime. Michael Redd was on the olympic team too, is he a good defender? Both of those guys score points, do a little here and there, but I wouldn't want them on my team sucking balls on defense. Kirilenko has to save Boozer's ass most of the time
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I totally agree. Whoever ends up with the better record would win the series, and I think that will be Utah. Although they really haven't looked good their last two games, but we'll see... I can't figure out why they're so bad on the road.
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But the Lakers are legit, and fans can talk all the trash they want since their team will back it up
Yeah, teams should be within a game of each other by the time they meet @ Portland, if Boozer has his legs by then, I think Utah will steal that game.
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They're not a smart team. If you watched the Miami game tonight, you'd know that. I couldn't believe what I saw. Blazers have lost 24 games, yes, but never for being that stupid.
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And for the record, Utah is the 3rd team I wouldn't want to face in the first round behind SA and LA. So I do think they are good, I just think Boozer isn't worth much when you take his defense along with his offense.
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JFizzleRaider makes sure he knows the game before posting.
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Well I didn't watch the game tonight, but I saw the one this morning... I saw the last minute of regulation and the three overtimes so that's all I can talk about. But during that time they looked more tired than stupid.
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No, what you do is post stats from a small sample size and skew them to give your one sided opinions. I think anybody who has been in this group of poster more than a month would agree with that statement
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Up 5 with 50 secs left and the ball. All they had to do was run 24 secs off the clock, run their offense and get a score. Instead they push the ball and commit a charging foul, giving Miami plenty of time to get back in the game. Stupid, stupid play. And there's no reason to be tired. They had Thursday and Friday off. And they're healthy and kicking ass now, right?
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We lost Roy too. We've lost 4 starters this season. And Rudy. And we beat a healthy Boston without Roy. But Utah is so impressive?
Excuses, excuses.
Blazers are in FIRST PLACE. Deal with it.
You should appreciate how great the Blazers are. They had the biggest lead over the Lakers than any team has had all season. We played MUCH better against the Lakers than the healthy and kicking ass Jazz did.
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Did you lose Roy for 10+ games..how about 40+? Utah was 5+ games out of 1st a month ago and were left for dead, so half a game isn't a biggie at this point with games against Portland & Denver coming up.
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Webster scored 25 points when we won IN UTAH against a healthy Jazz team last season. And then he scored 24 points in the third quarter against the healthy Jazz in Portland, Yeah, he's an important player on our team. Luckily, we're so deep that a rookie has been able to admirably fill in for him.
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and I never said it was better losing webster. Oden does a lot for our team so I'm not so sure (in drawing double teams, playing defense, intimidator), though I'd probably still give the nod to Boozer, but Oden hasn't been on the court enough to really make an All-Star impact.
Boozer's defense is horrible, I think they play better with Millsap who IMO is a better player. Boozer looks better with Kirilenko saving his ass. For Boozer to be effective he needs a clean up guy that can mask his defensive deficiencies.