Thursday, April 3, 2008

Practice News Story 9: Sports

SALT LAKE CITY Utah-


Jazz 16 3-pointers hold off the Spurs

The Utah Jazz held off the San Antonio Spurs 106-99 tonight at the Energy Solutions Arena. The Utah Jazz hit a team record 16 3-point field goals, none bigger than the one that Ronnie Brewer hit late in the game to break a 97-97 tie. Mehmet Okur blocked a shot by Tim Duncan which lead to Derron Williams finding Brewer for a big 3-pointer. Brewed described it like this, "Tied at 97, Derron found me, and I hit a big shot for me, and a big shot for the team. I'm just glad it went through."

C.J. Miles had a career high in points tonight as he dropped 30 for the Jazz. Derron Williams had his usual double-double with 15 points and 14 assists. Carlos Boozer also had a double-double with 26 points and 12 rebounds. Mehmet Okur had 15 points and a huge blocked shot late in the game against Duncan. Korver was 3/3 from 3-point land, and finished with 13 points.

Jerry Sloan had this to say about the big win for the Jazz, "We had some very good defensive stops, especially toward the end. I was very pleased with our teams defensive effort tonight."

With this win tonight at the Energy Solutions Arena, the Jazz have now won 25 of the last 26 games at home, proving that the Utah Jazz are one of the best home teams in all of the NBA.


2 comments:

Candice said...

Hey good job! You got a lot of information packed in there, much more than I did. ;)

Anonymous said...

I liked that you used the 25-of-out-of-26 home wins stat. That was good that you mentioned that they set a new franchise record for three-pointers; I forget to say that. You did a good job mentioning all the contributors, and adding Memo's block of Duncan. Nice work