Utah Jazz One-Game Away From Defeating Golden St.Warriors

By David
Kaye

The Golden St. Warriors could not have suffered their first playoff loss behind their raucous home fans at a worse time.

After demolishing the Jazz in game three by the final score of 126-105, it looked inevitable that Baron Davis and the high flying Warriors would tie their best of seven series with the Jazz at two games a piece.

Unfortunately, someone forgot to send that memo to all-star Carlos Boozer and his teammates who defeated Golden St. 115-101 last night to take a commanding 3-1 series lead. For the first time in months it appears that the Warriors luck is coming to an end.

To be able to win games five and seven in front of a hostile Utah crowd would be down right amazing, but that task seems even more difficult than having to defeat the Mavericks in the first-round.

Jazz forward Carlos Boozer dominated the smaller Golden St. defenders as he exploded for 34 points and twelve rebounds in game four. Going into this series I was worried that the undersized Warriors would not be able to defend big men like Boozer, Okur and Millsap, and my doubts might have come true last night in Oakland.