The defense of Utah was quite good for surpassing any offensive struggles, and the night was the Houston Rockets losing game 81-67 in their playoff series, but Rockets still lead 2-1 for this playoff series.
The jazz maintained to the rockets without a goal of the field by 10 minutes by half second and it did not allow that the reserves of Houston wrote down a single point. Yao Ming wrote down 26 and Tracy McGrady made 24 points for Houston, but only two other rockets to scored.
If Yao and McGrady combine hardly for 50 points, it is not a bad night for the defense, specially when the rest of the team scored 17 more only.
The stifling defense made up for another marginal night on offense. Utah was 33-for-85 from the field -- 2-for-15 on 3-pointers -- but had 15 offensive rebounds to Houston's nine and forced the Rockets into 19 turnovers.
Carlos Boozer had 22 points and 12 rebounds and Mehmet Okur had four blocks and four steals, covering Yao all the night with a much more physical defense that Utah obtains generally of his scorer second-that it leads.
Utah Deron Williams added 11 points and eight assists for his team, and the inexperienced reserve Paul Millsap wrote down nine points.
The Rockets won the first two games of the series at home, but were sloppy on the road during the first playoff game in Utah since 2003. Houston had 19 turnovers to Utah's 11 and was just 21-for-64 from the floor (32.8 percent).
Game 4 pays attention for the Saturday night.
The jazz maintained to the rockets without a goal of the field by 10 minutes by half second and it did not allow that the reserves of Houston wrote down a single point. Yao Ming wrote down 26 and Tracy McGrady made 24 points for Houston, but only two other rockets to scored.
If Yao and McGrady combine hardly for 50 points, it is not a bad night for the defense, specially when the rest of the team scored 17 more only.
The stifling defense made up for another marginal night on offense. Utah was 33-for-85 from the field -- 2-for-15 on 3-pointers -- but had 15 offensive rebounds to Houston's nine and forced the Rockets into 19 turnovers.
Carlos Boozer had 22 points and 12 rebounds and Mehmet Okur had four blocks and four steals, covering Yao all the night with a much more physical defense that Utah obtains generally of his scorer second-that it leads.
Utah Deron Williams added 11 points and eight assists for his team, and the inexperienced reserve Paul Millsap wrote down nine points.
The Rockets won the first two games of the series at home, but were sloppy on the road during the first playoff game in Utah since 2003. Houston had 19 turnovers to Utah's 11 and was just 21-for-64 from the floor (32.8 percent).
Game 4 pays attention for the Saturday night.
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