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I try to make up for my lack of basketball playing abilities with being a superfan. I'm all about the Utah Jazz and Philadelphia Seventy Sixers. I'm increasingly interested in hockey. My NHL team of choice is the Atlanta Thrashers. I swam through high school and a little of college.

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Lucky 14: Jazz end Blazers' 13 win streak

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created January 01, 2008, last edited February 10, 2009

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The Utah Jazz ended 2007 with something they needed: a win. In particular, this was a 111-101 win at home against the Portland Trail Blazers who had beat them twice this month.

Carlos Boozer (19 points, 9 rebounds) and Deron Williams (18 points, 8 rebounds) played their usual. It was Andrei Kirilenko who really carried the Jazz, with 14 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, just shy of a a triple double. Memo Okur is still slumping, scoring only 6 points and pulling down a single rebound in 21 minutes. Ouch.

Paul Millsap is getting Okur's time, scoring 14 and 6 rebounds. The way Okur is playing, they should start Millsap at the power forward and move Boozer to the center.

The Trail Blazers were led by LaMarcus Aldridge who had 36 points and an unreal three rebounds. Aldridge is going to be a good player but needs to be more aggressive on the boards. Brandon Roy added 17 points and Jarret Jones added 15.

The free throw differential wasn't as bad as it had been during the month; Portland only had 16 more opportunities.

Kyle Korver also made his Jazz debut with 11 points, and pretended he was Kirilenko by adding 2 blocks and 2 steals to hsi statline. He looked like he was playing really well and fitting into Utah's system very well. He also played adequate defense which would lead me to believe one of the two things:

Korver didn't care about playing defense back with the Sixers.
Korver has already realized that the only way to get consistent minutes in a Jerry Sloan team is to play hard.

Either way, I'm really liking his addition to the team. Korver gets to play his old team on Wednesday, as the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers come to the Energy Solutions Arena. Happy new year and enjoy the NHL Winter Classic!

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IbeargRed-Shirting

696 days ago

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3 boards for a center/power forward is absolutely pitiful. I would have loved to see Korver get those two blocks though, they had to be against someone small like Steve Blake or Jarrett Jack right? Also it's ironic that in my article about the Korver trade i said the Jazz would make the playoffs most likely by overtaking the blazers and now the jazz ended the blazers winning streak.

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