Jazz Get 2nd Straight Win After Mauling The Raptors

Wednesday night in Salt Lake City, the Utah Jazz got their 2nd win of the season and improved to .500 (2-2) on the young season by beating the Toronto Raptors 125-108. They did it primarily by offense, and they had everybody clicking. Deron Williams had 22 points and 14 Assits, CJ Miles had 19 points, Al Jefferson had 27 points and Paul Millsap had 21 points. The first half was a joke as they were up 66-45 at the half. 44-21 at the end of the first quarter. Things looked like the Jazz were gonna be in cruise control by the end of the third. But with some timely three pointers by Andrea Bargnani, the Raptors got to within 4 points of the Jazz with less than 3 seconds to go in the third quarter. On the last play of the quarter CJ Miles inbounded the ball to Deron Williams, who gave the ball right back to CJ Miles, from which CJ Miles hit a clutch 3 pointer at the buzzer off the glass. That shot seemed to suck the soul out the Toronto Raptors because after that shot was hit, the Raptors started to fade and ended up losing by 17 points in total. I know it's early, but it's encouraging so far that the Jazz are playing so well right now with Millsap and Jefferson in the post. Williams is of course the leader of this team, running the offense very fluidly. However, CJ Miles has been stepping up in their last 2 wins with 21 and 19 points respectively averaging 20 points in their 2 wins. The rest of the bench hasn't been all that productive, but if the offense is scoring 120+ points, they really don't need much more offense. The only thing I'd like to see from the Jazz at this point, is better defense. They are giving up too many points. 108 points to the Raptors is not acceptable. They'll have to fix that. But as for the offense, heck, they are looking really good on that end of the floor. Expect another high scoring victory from the Jazz on Friday night as they travel to Oakland,CA to take on the Golden State Warriors. I'll be going to that Game and I expect it to be very high scoring on both ends of the floor. The following day, they'll play the Clippers. So, they should be 4-2 by the end of the week. Go Jazz!