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Golden State at Utah

April 19, 2006
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Utah and Golden State have had an interesting series this year that has gone largely unnoticed. The road team has won each of their 3 games, as Utah has taken 2/3 including the last game in OT at Golden State. Yes, Golden State has revenge, but it will be quite hard to defeat the Jazz today without Baron Davis. Furthermore, this is the final impression the Jazz will make on their home crowd as this team was riddled with injuries throughout the season and attempts to go .500 as they are currently 40-41. This is a key game in some respects, as Coach Sloan in a bit of a morale booster can tell his troops that even with injuries at one point to their stars including Kirilenko or Okur, this team still managed to finish .500 and who only knows if everyone stayed healthy how well they could have done. The Warriors are 0-6 in their last 6 as an underdog of 0-5 points on the road, where as the Jazz return home and are 5-2 of late after a SU loss. Let's take the Jazz here trying to reach the .500 mark in front of the home crowd against a team that they have shown that they can beat twice on the opposing court.

2 units on Utah -3.5 (-110) (risk 2 to return 3.82)
Result:
LOSS
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