Practice News Story: Sports
November 7, 2007
10:00 am MT
Jason Rogers
Salt Lake City, UT- The Utah Jazz came out with the victory last night winning 106-99 against the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers last night at Energy Solutions Arena. After coming off of a devastating loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, where All Star Kobe Bryant blocked what would have been the game winning shot. Forward, Andrei Kirilenko took that to heart and contributed a record setting 21 blocks to last night's victory. Many of his blocks came while guarding LeBron James.
“He moves fast,” Kirilenko said about Lebron, “ Luckily I had a lot of energy in this game.” Energy must have been what gave AK-47 his 21 blocks combined with 21 points on the night.
Jazz Head Coach Jerry Sloan still feels that there is room for improvement. “Andrie had a great game. Some of our other guys have to step it up.” There were 8 ties throughout the game, however the Jazz never trailed once. Paul Millsap contributed with 12 points, C.J Miles had 15 points, and Boozer added 29 points to the scoreboard while pulling down 7 rebounds.
LeBron had 28 points of his own and said this after the game. “The crowd in Utah is one of the loudest. The crowd took us out of the game more than anything. We just couldn't close it out at the end.” When asked about Kirilenko's Performance he added, “He deserves to be an All-Star ... I left myself open and payed the price."
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