The Utah Jazz just pulled off two improbable wins against the Heat and Magic. The Jazz-Heat game itself can easily go down as one of the greatest regular season games ever played. Just too many dramas involved: Jazz being down by 22 away from home, against the heavily favored (and hyped) Heat superstars, Millsap broke loose for a career-high 46 points, including 11 points within the last 30 seconds of regulation to force overtime. Millsap my man suddenly looked like T-Mac in this clip … I still feel sorry for the Houston fans who left the building early, heheheh. I’m not a fan of the Rockets, but this is just so amazing, probably the only meaningful highlight of T-Mac as a Rocket.
Well, this might not be as fiery, but eerily similar, … the Jazz was down by 8 points with 37.3 seconds left in regulation. From that point, the Jazz scored 14 points to force overtime, 11 by Millsap alone … 3/3 from 3-pt range and a putback to force OT. What a game!! Jazz went on (without Deron Williams who fouled out) in OT and won it 116-114.
The next day, the flew to Orlando to face the Magic team who was unbeaten at home. I thought the Jazz came out pretty well in the 1st quarter, but the 2nd quarter was a disaster … Magic ended up holding a 10-pt lead at half-time. They continued to torched the Jazz in the 3rd, until about 1:36 left in the period, leading by 18 points. That was when the Jazz employed a perfectly executed zone defense … This match-up zone defense, along with the Magic bad plays, was responsible of a 24-2 Jazz run to get back in the game. Jazz ended up with a win by 10 points: 104-94, whoa … how did that happen? Check this great article out … it breaks down the defense employed by the Jazz during the game.
I’m usually looking forward for the next Jazz game, but don’t feel like it this time … still want to cherish the past two amazing games, the sweet Florida-trip sweep, baby 
… not a lot of teams will get out of it unscathed.
Go Jazz!
