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Preview: Jazz at Warriors

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Jazz

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Oracle Arena
7:30pm | CSNBA

Official Game Preview

2011-12 Meetings
January 7, 2012 • Recap
Jazz 88
Warriors 87
 
February 2, 2012 • Recap
Jazz 101
Warriors 119
 
March 17, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 92
Jazz 99
 
April 6, 2012 • Recap
Warriors 98
Jazz 104
 

The Warriors welcome the Jazz to Oracle tonight. What to watch for:

  • Take Advantage: As Kawakami has been pointing out recently, the Warriors have had an incredibly soft early season schedule in terms of Easter Conference teams, home games,  and opponent back-to-backs. They have the last two working for them tonight, and they need to take advantage of it.
  • First Team: The bench famously closed out the win on Tuesday against the Kings, so it will be interested to see if the starters are hungrier tonight. Can they “force” Jackson to leave the on the court during crunch time?
  • Rebounds: Despite the win against Sacramento, the Warriors got killed on the boards yet again with a -15 margin. The Jazz can play big up front with Milsap and Jefferson, so the Warriors bigs will need to step up to avoid another double-digit margin — and a likely loss if the trend continues.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/kirklandj Jake Kirkland

    Well Still 2:30 left but I have to get back to work so I will risk jinxing the W’s now.  The starters certainly were hungry tonight especially in the 4th quarter.  Despite all the talk of them taking the Sacto game well, I don’t think they were too thrilled with it and came out with an incredible 4th quarter.  Lee was great after a miserable 1st half. I was impressed by how hard they pushed it and ran.  They really are a better team playing a little Nellie ball.  Also, Udoh has just been looking great these past few games.  He has gotten really good at blocking shots and keeping them in bounds and his blocks are leading to great fast breaks.  This was a really impressive game.  Watch the 2nd half on your DVR if you taped it.