Written by Spencer | 31 December 2009

This is a little Awkward. It should be fun to see Williams/Price and Maynor go at it like they did in practice but his time for all to see. Tonight's game is the fifth wheel to TNT's games which is fine because those games are usually blowouts any way. I have a hard time thinking that we win tonight because A) back to back and B) its a road game and C) Kevin . How sick would Portland be right now with  instead of Oden pretty, pretty sick. Stat wise these two teams are very similar except for ft% TTTSNBN is first in the league at 80.1 %. This means when they get into the bonus 3 minutes into the fourth they will kill us from the line. Expect and except that this will happened tonight. Here are some other stats to wet your whistle.

Jazz	Key Team Stats	Thunder
100.3	Points scored	98.7
97.7	Points allowed	96.6
.486	FG% own	.455
.457	FG% opposition	.445
.340	3PT% own	.323
.346	3PT% opposition	.345
314	Offensive Rebounds	352
942	Defensive Rebounds	966
1256	Total Rebounds	1318
1.8	Assist/Turnover Ratio	1.3
21.8	Fouls Per Game	21.7

TTTSNBN need six more wins to match what they had for the entire season last year. In other words they are heading in the right direction other than being stolen from Seattle. Over the past four games Durant is averaging 34.8 points helping  TTTSNBN score 107 a game. US winning comes down to our defense stopping them, never a good sign. Expect Boozer to have a good game over the past eleven games against TTTSNBN 23 and 12. Also expect Green to have a good game, he is averaging 18.8 over the past six games against the Utah Jazz. Prediction Blowout. TTTSNBN 113 Utah Jazz 97. Accuscore has this 69/31 for TTTSNBN Spread is TTTSNBN -3 which is to close, in my opinion it should be around 6-8'ish Deron Williams is creeping up on 3000 assists and should hit it against the Nuggets unless he goes nuts tonight, currently he is at 2983. CP3 passed the mark a little earlier this season. They are both on the same pace as John Stockton through the first four years but starting in his fifth year Stockton ran of 7 straight years with 1000 + assists and averaged close to 12 a game for the next ten years and then played another nine years after that, eight of which came after breaking the record. So the assist record is looking very very safe. Deron should end up second all time for Jazz players before his current contract expires. Fastest to 3,000 Assists Games Player 291 Oscar Robertson 301 Isiah Thomas 304 Chris Paul 307 Kevin Johnson 310 Tim Hardaway 310 Magic Johnson 332 Jason Kidd 341 John Stockton 350 Johnny Moore The Jazz are 13-3 when Ronnie Brewer score ten or more points.

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