| Show t n I Jazz Could Be Played Out San Antonio ruined sy v s y everything What happens next will be beY Y quick and painless 4 By Nate Dowdle Opinion Editor hank you San Antonio Thank Thanks Thanks to you the Jazz are officially doomed to the fi fiti ti eighth seed in the Playoffs T 7 as well as a round first-round up match-up against the Sacramento Kings The Spurs from the city famous for the Alamo defeated the Jazz 86 84 last Wednesday night on a Tony Parker up lay-up L with two seconds left r The loss combined with a Seattle win over Memphis put 4 Utah in a precarious position Sacramento swept the season y series from the Jazz thrashing them by a combined 91 points in their four contests r However Jazz players h o w n. n ww o o k sK M M d dr al k i r.- r. wk r Y 0 tM ri F t 4 v j W t l' l 3 i X baw RW aS N r 0 0 k if n s Ys a y 8 il t J i Aw i M z k it itZ w.- w. t Zt Jj N t tr r t. t f y y Z W- W Wo ti u i ji if yn Kt w. l j m W. x 1 Jw i C Y 1 r f 34 ii v t. t 7 ji k M f t n ri wG M y W r. i i Photo courtesy of the Jazz remain optimistic about their chances Forward Karl Malone said No one expects us to do anything it'll be good that we dont don't have any pressure on us C If you did poorly you get to start from scratch now Utah Jazz Guard John Stockton ii Rookie Andrei Kirilenko also chimed in with his view view- point We have a chance he said And of course theres there's John Stockton All of your mistakes are forgotten said the now 40 year-old year and time multi-time all I If f you did poorly you get to start from scratch now Nevertheless when one breaks down the ups match-ups in inthis inthis inthis this series the advantage clearly goes to the Kings In their games with Sacramento this season Utah has been unable to contain all- all stars Chris Webber and Predrag as well as the rest of the line Also Sacramento has done donea a good job of holding the Jazz's hall of Malone and Stockton to below-average below per per- Needless to say it makes for an interesting series for Utah Game I 1 of this series was wason wason wason on Saturday afternoon at Arco Arena in Sacramento CA Game 2 is tomorrow night on Tuesday on the Kings' Kings home floor A 4 |
