| Show 2C Saturday April 21 Standardxarrxner NBA Playoffs 200Y Mavs field a tough arsenal for Jazz to worry about a TOM McEACHINI SALT ' Road to wins st Cvirw The Jazz and Mavencks split then tour games this season but oddly won by the road teams1 enough all tour game games were them over the tour games - the two ust separated points Although - none ot the games were 1 4 Mavencks the outscored Jazz deeded by less than six points m the two Jazz victories Key stats Kart Malone averaged 33 points 1 but just 7 m the two losses For Dallas Steve Nash averaged 55 1 2 3 assists in the senes and points Nov 4 at Dallas Jazz 1 1 2 Maverick 1 06 The Jazz started a trend they would toltow all season of playing well on the road They established an 1 point lead early in the game and battled the Mavencks to the end to pull out the victory Malone led the Jazz with 35 points and 1 0 rebounds and Nash led Dallas with 24 points and 1 2 assists Nov 20 at the Delta Canter Mavericks 107 Jazz 98 Alter a slow start for both teams Dallas pulled ahead in the second eventually building a quarter when they outscored the Jazz lead in the third quarter Malone who would be suspended lor elbowing Chnstian Laettner in 1 the game scored just 1 3 points Bryon Russell led the Jazz with 7 off the bench 5 had and Vaughn Jacque points Michael Finley led Dallas with 29 points and Nash had a season-hig- h 1 7 assists to go with his 1 7 points March 26 at the Delta Center Mavericks 98 Jazz 90 Utah built a 13 point lead in the second quarter and Dallas coach Don Nelson was eiected just before halftime missing the Mavencks’ rally m the second halt to pull away Dallas outscored the Jazz 27 Malone Finley led Dallas with 33 points and Dirk Nowitzki added led Utah with 21 points April 7 at Dallas Jazz 116 Maverick 103 After a slow start Olden Polymce s flagrant foul on Juwan Howard eight minutes Into the game seemed to ignite the Jazz Utah outscored In the middle two quarters to take control of the game Dallas Malone led the Jazz with 31 points John Stockton had 1 5 points and 3 assists and John Starks had 6 points oft the bench Howard led Dallas with 24 points and Nowitzki added 22 1AKK CITY - The are over of stall-hal- l 1 6-- Just three years ago the Mavericks played the Jazz m a pi me so excruciatingly dull 1 they held Utah to OS points -and still lost They figured their only ¥)pe of K'atuig the Jazz was to lire them into mistakes out of sheer boredom But with more offensive threats than they've had in ears look for the Mavericks to lace up their track shoes for this series And look for the Jazz to try th keep the pace somewhere between a stall and an all-osprint ‘ They want to play fast and get up and down the floor and make us run" Jazz assistant coach Gordon Cluesa said “We want to play a controlled pace make them play more of a halfcourt game" The styles of play in Dallas and Utah are so dramatically different their playoff series likely w ill come down to which team is most successful at dictating the pace of the game "We have a style of play that works for us and we have to play that style” Jazz point guard John Stockton said "When we do that we're pretty decent When we don't just about anybody can beat us at any time so it's probably more puportant for us to play our style every pluy" Beyond efforts to dictate the tempo the Mavericks pose especially tough matchup problems because they have players at every position who command attention from the defense The Jazz generally like to play a helping style of defense where they rotate from the weaker offensive players to double-teathe stars In this series however they will be forced to rely much more on defense How they fare they will have a bearing on the series "We have a lot of matchup problems" Stockton said "They have big guys who can get out on the flixir we huve small guys who can go und post up They're a very very talented team" Jazz coach Jerry Sloan 1 34-2- 1 63-4- 67-5- 1 1 1 trap they want you to take If you try to quick shots photo The Dallas Mavericks play an aggressive defense as shown here earlier in the season when the Mavericks' Shawn Bradley (left) and Michael Finley collapse on Utah Jaz2's Bryon Russell make sure we’re strong defensively down low" But the Jazz also know they also cause matchup problems for the Mavericks and will be looking to exploit those as rupt their offense well "They scramble you a lot" “They do a lot of switching" guard John Starks said "DeKarl Malone said "But if you fensively Don Nelson is going to do things to get you out of take advantage of that make them pay for the switching your offense and they like to make them pay for a lot of get out and run" things they do you'll be fine They have some gixid "What you try to do is don't shooters und as players we know that We have to exe - get caught up In the yyny cute a little bit better and just 'thcyrepl(iyijig When they I le’s a terrific coach and they do a great job" Kven if the Jazz do manage to get in a half-cougame the Mavericks will still lixik to dis- knows Dallas counterpart Don Nelson will spend the entire series looking for ways to seek out and exploit those matchup problems "Don has always had a lot of different ways he played the game and has been very successful with it" Sloan said "He forces your hand to do a lot of different things and sometimes you don’t get it done "You can’t get matched up for whatever reason It could be foul trouble It could be a guy struggling in his game e rt ‘v Notebook Youth vs experience could work against the Jazz Stockton is 39 Malone is 37 1’olynice is 36 Starks is 35 and Danny Manning turns 35 next month nothing to lose" Stockton doesn't put much stock in the Juzz having an advantage because of their experience "We have to ploy our style and if experience helps us to do that then it well be an advantage to us" he suid “If we don't their youth probubly will be to their advuntnge" John Starks says experience could help the Jazz but they can't rely strictly on that "It meuns something when the games are tight but you have to get in that stage of the game" he said "If you don't get In that stage of the game your experience doesn't have a chance to take over scut's going to be important that we relax out there on the floor and just go out there and play a controlled bullgnme" But while experience could work in Utah’s favor age The Mavericks have a respectable 2(X) games of experience but most of LAKE CITY - The playoff that is on the bench a have SALT huge Backup point guard Howard over the Dallas MavEisley has played 79 games in ericks when it comes to the postseason - all with Utah playoff experience - while seldom used forward Then again the Muvericks Mark Bryant lias appeared in have a big edge when it comes 65 playoff gomes mostly for to youth Portland and Vernon Maxwell ' The Jazz are making their has played in 45 games mostly 18th consecutive appearance with Houston in the postseason so it’s no Among the starters only surprise their roster is loaded Steve Nush (eight games with with playoff veterans Phoenix) and Juwan Howard Even with playoff nxikies (three games with Washington) Donyell Marshall and DeShawn have ever been in a playoff Stevenson the Jnz have 746 game ‘Til tell you right now what games of playoff experience on their will happen" Malone said "If postseason roster led by John Stockton we win the series we're ( 168 games) and Karl Malone supposed to because we're q ( L58 games) veteran teum If they win the series the Jazz are getting old The Mavericks are making and washed up their first postseason "We seem to have a way of appearance in 1 1 years so needless to say playoff breaking in younger teams with everything to gain and experience is a bit scarce By TOM McEACHIN Slnnclnrd Examiner stall n camp but now seems to be in the middle of most skirmishes with the Mailman From 1C Nelson missed about six “I’ve been in some tough riweeks in the middle of the seu-sovalries over my curcer with to undergo surgery for Chicago Indiana and Miami” prostate cancer - at the HuntsS’tarks suid man Cancer Institute in Suit "You look forward to those Dike City types of games in the pluyoffs Flumboyant Mavericks But we can't get caught up in owner Mark Cuban who hus all the hoopla Sometimes you been fined a dolget caught up in the hoopla lars by the NBA this season and you don't go out and pluy a und was culled "the village idirelaxed ballgnme" ot" by Juzz exec Kevin O’Con' Beyond the roughhousing nor has been in a wars of the series is packed with all words with both Malone and sorts of other intriguing Sloan this season Juzz guard Straight-lacePoint guard Howard Eis-lii- John Stockton wouldn’t even spent the past five seasons mention Cuban by nume when with the Jazz but as a free asked about him and the other agent last summer he spurned elements ol the series - “the the team's overtures to come thing you mentioned (Cubun) buck He did however agree doesn't have any bearing on deal which what’s going on on the flixir" -to a stmt him to Dallas and ullowcd but he did concede "It is an inthe Jazz to acquire Marshall teresting series They’re a So while some fans felt unique talented team definitesnubbed by Eisley the deal ly on the rise and it's going to worked out well In Utah be a great series" A a child growing up in Added Mulone: "It should be Central Utah Bradley once at- a tough scries But it should be tended Malone's basketball a fun one" s'!' No one in the Dallas starting lineup is in his 30s Howard get into a track meet and run atul do all that stuff it will be a long series for us” I lere’s how Chiesa breaks down the individual matchups: Point guard: John Stockton vs Steve Nush 'The thing to watch is Nash’s penetration He has an unbelievable skill of under-contrpenetration which we call a 'search dribble’ He dribbles the ball and just searches how the is going to come then makes the play" Shooting guard: Bryon Russell vs Steve Finley "The story line is Finley in isolation on the wing Can we get up and challenge him to make him put the ball no the flixir instead of giving him the open stationary jumper which he can make from 18 feet?" Small forward: Donyell Marshall vs Dirk Nowitzki "Nqwltzkl is a huge concern help-defen- and Steve Finley are 28 Nash is 27 Calvin Bixith is 24 and Dirk Nowitzki is 22 “When you look at what we have to match up with" Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said "I don’t see any advantages that we have to try to play agutnst that He takes our bigger guys off the dribble on the perimeter 3 or to either for a pull-udraw fouls He’s a real good foul shooter He scores off the sets dribble His drive-gam- e up his jumper game while Finley is the opposite his sets up his drive jumper-gam- e p game" Power forward: Karl Ma- lone vs Juwan Howard "Howturnard is a good low-post around scoring threat He likes to face up for the jump shot from 16 feet or In the low blocks he’ll face up" Center: Olden Polynlce vs Calvin Booth or Shawn Bradley 'Can Olden put a body on them and keep them off the offensive boards? And when they play help defense can our center get to the front of tlte rim and score off the team? 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