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   When the Playoff Series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz started there wasn’t many people who thought the Jazz stood a chance, including the Jazz Head Coach. Everyone thought the Jazz would just be out-classed by the Lakers but that is clearly not the case.

   The Jazz have held their own in the first two games of this series and although they are usually fighting back from an early deficit, they are indeed fighting. Utah could have just mailed in this series and just been satisfied with making the Playoffs but they haven’t.

   The Jazz are most likely not going to upset the Lakers but they are playing with pride and will not be pushed around by Los Angeles. Not bad for a team that no one could have thought be able to even hang with the Lakers who are starting to hit full stride.

   As for the Lakers, they have impressed me with their abilities to regain most of their cohesiveness they had at the start of the season. 7-footers Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol have looked like a dominant force that the Jazz have struggled to handle so far.

   Kobe Bryant has been a bit uncharacteristically quiet so far in this series, but if I was a member of the Jazz I’d be a little afraid. Usually, Kobe likes to take over on the road and this series will head over to Utah on Thursday where the Jazz are historically tough to defeat.

   So whether you consider yourself an NBA fan or expert, you probably didn’t think that the Jazz would put up this much of a fight, because I didn’t. Los Angeles will have to expect that every team is going to have the same type of enthusiasm and fight throughout the Playoffs.

J.M.Saucedo

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