15 March, 2009

Loss in 3OT; Good Lesson to the Young Players

Jazz Game,

- The below pretty much sum it up. It is a pity but I hope the young players in the team could take this as a very good lesson and don't make the same mistake in this year playoff.

"We did a how-to on how to lose a basketball game, pretty much," Williams said. "Fouling when we don't need to, trying to score when we definitely don't need to, instead of using our clock. It wasn't very smart."

In regulation, the Jazz led 107-100 with 55 seconds left, before getting outscored 7-0. Chalmers made two free throws, Wade found Haslem for a dunk, and suddenly it was 107-104. O'Neal blocked a dunk by Paul Millsap at the other end, and James Jones made three free throws in the final 16.3 seconds.

"We played right into their hands," Utah coach Jerry Sloan said.

It was just getting started.

The first overtime began with Korver and Mehmet Okur making 3-pointers, and the Jazz were up 115-107 with 1:45 left. Back came Miami -- Wade found O'Neal inside, scored the next four points himself, and Haslem tied it on two free throws with 22.1 seconds remaining.

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