The Jazz are now 2-0 in their six-game first-round “series.” After impressive wins against the Spurs and the Hornets, Jazz fans are buzzing about reaching the WCF again. The Jazz are now 11-7 on the road since a January loss @ Denver.

Both San Antonio and NO rebounded from the defensive beatings they took from the Jazz. The Jazz will need to play the same D on Dallas tonight as the Mavs are now playing well again since the return of Jirk. He got his karmic whiplash for taking out AK in the last meeting by getting injured himself. They injury could have ended his season, but he was able to come back. I don’t know if he’s 100%. Don’t expect any revenge from AK tonight though. A win and a good beating of Dallas would be revenge enough.

The Jazz are playing for home-court and making some noise going into the playoffs. They’re only 1 game back of LA, SA, and HOU. The Lakers are at LAC for a road game. I don’t expect much from the Clips on this one. So the Jazz need a win to stay one game back. Meanwhile, Dallas has a playoff spot pretty much locked up, but they’re fending off Denver and GS for sixth. So they’ve got a lot to play for so that they don’t end up playing the #1 seed.

If the Jazz can wake from their offensive slumber the past couple of games and play even half the defense they’ve played over the last two games, they’ll have a good shot at a win. Let’s hope the karmic payback on Jirk results in a loss for them. Then we can call it even.

Other blogs,

• Biased Fan
• My Utah Jazz
• FLA
• Mavs Moneyball

So hardwoodparoxysm has a poll out for NBA blogs of the year.  The nominations were in January and some Jazz bloggers got on the list such as My Utah Jazz, FLA, and Biased Fan.  But not me.  So if you’d like to vote for BBJ, it will have to come as a write-in.  But if we can get the ESA chanting MVP when Deron comes to the line, then we can start a successful write-in campaign.

I don’t expect to beat out any of the big boys, but I want to beat the other Jazz blogs (no offense).  But you can vote for them as well if you’d like.  So if you like the videos, and you like the pics, and if you like the comments, get out and vote.

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