Basketball Cheers

Jerry Sloan, who surely would have been anticipating a champagne bath for his 20th anniversary with the team by the 3rd quarter, could be seen chewing his fingernails midway through the 4th quarter. A team that was well on-course for a smooth victory all right by the time the 3rd whistle blew, seemed to have lost the plot all of a sudden. And Sloan could have been clutching his head midway into the fourth quarter when he could see the Jazz trailing by 9 points. Surely he would not have wanted a bitter mark to his 20th anniversary. But then, Mehmet Okur had other plans, with his side in complete tatters. In the finishing moments of the game, Okur produced 21 points, two of them from a short fade-away, which really marked the start of the comeback of the Utah Jazz. Deron Williams, employed by the Jazz as a counter to the tall and towering Kevin Oille of Timberwolves, worked well with Okur, and the both pairing almost took the game away from the Timberwolves before they could say “Basket …

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