It is locked on jazz for Friday, August 21st before game three. What will Mike Connley's return mean? What does Denver do next and what should we look out for in game three? It's all coming up on today's edition of

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First thing, Mike Connolly likely to return, It does change us, but the nervousness after winning one game of

and after losing four to Denver and the fact that we got Mike Connley back

I find I find ill advised my thought when the series started was the Jazz could win this

series because they had three pick and roll ball handlers and Denver didn't

have enough defenders and so I think that that is still true. The fact of the matter is that if you dig into kind of what Mike Conley does for the jazz, the jazz have been, you know, the lineup that everyone is in love with right now because Donovan went and scored 57 points, which is Donovan playing point guard. You know, if we really dig into it for the season,

and maybe that's not relevant, but I think it is,

is that the team has been far better when Mike Connley,

with Donovan and Joe Ingalls on the floor

and no Mike Connley, which is what we got

for portions of time, which is great, got for portions of time which is great.

We're plus 7.6 per 100 possessions,

the offenses in the 87th percentile,

the defenses in the 78th,

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