Los Angeles at Utah (05/10/2010)

Away:  L.A. Lakers [38-50-3 ATS]
Home:  Utah [54-34-3 ATS]

Game Time: 10:30 PM
Stadium: EnergySolutions Arena

Recent Meetings:
05/08/10 - LAL 111 vs. UTA 110
05/04/10 - UTA 103 vs. LAL 111
05/02/10 - UTA 99 vs. LAL 104

Team Leaders:

L.A. Lakers:
Points: Kobe Bryant (26.9)
Assists: Kobe Bryant (5.0)
Rebounds: Pau Gasol (11.5)

Utah:
Points: Carlos Boozer (19.6)
Assists: Deron Williams (10.5)
Rebounds: Carlos Boozer (11.4)

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Gotta go Jazz!

On the fact I don't see 3 sweeps happening in 2 days..................

Implying what, that two unrelated series that ended in sweeps somehow impacts outcome of this game?  

or that the other teams swept somehow motivates the jazz more or lakers less?

How bout these more reasonable scenarios:

Jazz win because they have home crowd, pride,etc. Or l that akers known to lay down at times and maybe a typical time for them to do so. 

Or Jazz will probably be the better team tonight.

Or David Stern needs another game, so its' fixed for at least one more game.  How bout those

solid post. 

DEF A SOLID POST...

THATS SORT OF WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY IN THE LAST GAME THREAD. I FEEL LIKE UTAH HAS TO PLAY AN AMAZING GAME TO BEAT THE LAKERS.  EVEN IN GAMES WHEN THE STATS INDICATE UTAH WAS BETTER THE LAKERS STILL WON.  PERSONNEL WHISE THEY ARE JUST SUPERIOR ACROSS THE BOARD.  EVEN THOUGH THE JAZZ ARE A GOOD TEAM...FOR SOME REASON THEY JUST DONT MATCHUP WELL. 

I'm digging your avatar!!!!!!!!!

Gotta roll with the Lake show.

GL to all... 

Big on the Over here !!  Lakers don't need this win, they may come out and just go thru the motions ??

OVER only for me .....

BOLTA 

Lakers will do enough for this game to go over and maybe cover !

Ya, thats the way I was leaning.  Thinking the Lakers come out and sorta just cruise, allowing Utah to score a lot of points and staying close throughout the whole game, then in the last 3 or 4 minutes of the fourth they really start to play hard and get some stops just to try and win the game late?

"Fisher hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 28.6 seconds left on Saturday, giving the Lakers the lead for good, 109-108. He had been booed all night, as he has been in Utah since asking the Jazz to release him from his contract so he could move his family closer to a city where his 1-year-old daughter could get specialized treatment for a cancerous tumor in her eye.

He ended up signing as a free agent with the Lakers, which some Jazz fans won't seem to forgive. The relentless boos and chants of "Fisher Sucks!" are not sitting well with Fisher's teammates on the Lakers.

"That's just bad people, doing stuff like that," Bryant said. "Not about that. You don't boo about that."