Could we please stop telling the Jazz when they’re going to be on national TV? I need to recommend to Basketball Reference to put up the W/L for the Jazz when they’re not on KJZZ or FSN. It’s got to be bad.

Sadly, my halftime prediction came ture. The Jazz could never quite overcome the 20-point deficit after the first quarter. They had about a million and a half runs, but the Lakers always made a big shot or got a turnover to kill any mo the Jazz had.

The Jazz killed a lot of their own mojo though when they couldn’t convert on a fast break or because they couldn’t make a layup. The biggest tell as to whether our offense is working is that they will get a lot of backdoor cuts and layups. Well, they didn’t have any of that going in the first quarter. It was all jump shots and nothing was dropping. By the time they did get it going, it was too late. They would have had to play almost perfect ball to win this game and they didn’t. They did outscore the Lakers by 9 quarters 2-4, but that doesn’t matter jack.

LA’s three-ball was killer for us. It’s was either a Radmanovic, Fisher, or Farmar three that were rally killers.

I won’t go over the Jazz stats. Everyone got theirs though for the most part. We also got a lousy 9 points from our bench. Korver couldn’t hit anything. A couple of threes from him would have given us a huge boost.

Maybe the key to winning in this series is to have key players miss the game. We were without Boozer and Okur the last time we won. They were without Pau and Bynum.

So goodbye 19-game home winning streak. And it looks like goodbye to a shot at the number one seed. The Lakers took 3 of 4 this year which gives them the tiebreaker. I’m not a believer in karma, but if there’s any proof of it, it’s those cosmic boos coming back to haunt us in this game.

All is not lost though. We have 5 of the next 6 games at home with the one roady coming @ Minny. We have SEA, MIN, CHA, LAC, and WSH. And realistically we should win all of those.

And we’re going to need a 6-game win streak going into the nasty month of April. We have two against SAS, and one against NO, HOU, DEN, and DAL.

Only twelve more games left in the regular season.