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The Utah Jazz, I thought maybe they were at the bottom of the series against the Houston Rockets.

And maybe it's my fault, Jonas, I brought this up yesterday, and I said, realistically realistically looking at these four conference semifinal

series which one is truly still up in the air and I felt it was really only the 76ers in

Celtics now the next closest one I would say Rockets jazz there was only one game in but the

Rockets had defended their home court and I just felt that if they got game to, even though it's very difficult to play in Salt Lake,

and it is a great home court for the Jazz, that if the Rockets could get up 2-0, they are a very good team at home, as most good teams are.

I just felt it was going to be the Rocket series that we were looking ahead to the

conference finals between Golden State and Houston. But a funny thing happened along the way.

Utah Jazz took it to the Houston Rockets last night and winning Game 2, 116 to 108.

In a game, Jonas, that Utah led by 19, only to have Houston come all the way back and tie it.

And I didn't get the sense that it was a Houston team that was out of gas because of the comeback that they had.

I just got the sense that Utah was just a better team last night in so many different ways.

And not to make it general, but the fact is Utah head guys step

up that you didn't necessarily expect to, and the Rockets just didn't step up last night.

Well, do you get the impression that if it gets down to a grind-it-out, tough type of game

or tough type of style of play that Utah is going to have the advantage to where

Houston is so dependent on we've got to hit shots, we've got to hit threes, it's what has

to happen for us to win a game. Utah goes out there and they'll grind you. I mean, Donovan

Mitchell didn't play that great. I mean, didn't have that good of a game, but Joe Ingalls,

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