Jazz clinched second consecutive Northwest Division title

 

The Jazz didn’t made too much noise during most of the season but they are closing phenomenally as they have four victories in a row and just clinched their second consecutive Northwest Division title after their victory of 77-66 over the Western Conference leaders, the Hornets.

Yesterday they ended with the 11-game home winning strike by New Orleans, and it also finished with their overall 5 game winning streak. I would say that the Hornets we saw yesterday were much different to the team that we’ve seeing during the regular season, even Chris Paul had a bad night coming with only 4 points, much different than his 21 point average per game. (Consistency, that is why I say Kobe is a step above Paul in the run for the MVP).

But apart from the score, both teams did poorly as they came up with season lows in scoring, on one side because they could manage to contain their rivals top scorers with a good display of deffense.

Mehmet Okur has being the guy leading the Jazz lately and he proved that against the Hornets by scoring 22 points and helping with 17 rebounds, and team mate Deron Williams also did a good job for Utah as he outplayed Chris Paul and finished with 17 assists.

The last victories from the Jazz have not come by casualty, as they have shown that they can defeat the big guys in their conference; they did it against the Spurs, to whom they humiliated with a score of 90 to 64 and yesterday as the fourth quarter started, Utah was leading by 20 points, a number that at the end was going to be a life saver for the Jazz since the Hornets scored only nine points in the quarter.