Jazz 90, Rockets 84
It doesn’t need to be said, but I’ll say it anyway: the Rockets are done. Kaput. They could steal a game in Utah, but it’s unlikely and it won’t matter. The Jazz are going to win this series…The 27 year-old Luis Scola made a late push for ROY, averaging 13.6 points and 8.4 rebounds after the All-Star break, and he went for 14/5 tonight, but the guy is pretty lost defensively. I counted at least three Utah baskets that were a direct result of Scola being woefully out of position. He also committed a bonehead foul that erased a game-tying three with less than a minute to play. I don’t know how good his English is, but it has to be tough to communicate complex basketball strategy to someone who doesn’t speak the language that well.
Cavs 116, Wizards 86
Brendan Haywood deserved to get tossed for his flagrant foul on LeBron. He simply threw a two-hand shove on an airborne player and didn’t make any attempt at the ball. The league has worked hard at cleaning up that garbage, and sometimes the refs go a little too far, but they got it right this time…The Wizards have to have THE UGLIEST uniforms in the league, possibly in all of sports. I don’t know who dreamt them up, but whoever it was should be fired.
