“The process by which one reflects and is able to understand what they know.”

For the Utah Jazz two games have gone by vs the Oklahoma City Thunder and it has resulted in two losses.  Sure, OK, you can’t win them all.  The Jazz went into game 1 with a structure not all too different to their best regular season line-up.  And, they lost, well I mean really they got beaten soundly.  The Thunder led throughout, controlling ball possession and shotting the ball better.  PotG Jonas Valanciunas pounded them in the paint toying with Jazz rookie Willie Cauley-Stein.  Big Val had his own way like taking candy from a kid, he scored at Will and collected eight, yes 8 offensive rebounds.

Only one loss, BUT the problem here is nothing has changed.  Game 2 comes along and the Jazz fronted up with the same tactics and guess what, to no one’s surprise they got pounded again.  Advanced stats were almost identical, the final score was almost identical.  Big Val destroyed the Jazz again.  The series is now 2-0 OKC and if nothing changes then it’s going to be 4-0 – it doesn’t take a Rhodes Scholar to work that out.  Clearly the series is being won and lost on the back of efficiency.  OKC are much more efficient than UT and the biggest contributor to this is Val who is averaging 20 and 20 at about 75% shooting.

In the interest of a competitive and exciting series, as the NLL media host, I am here to say, “gm merencio, do something or it's over!!”

Game 3 will be sometime next week.  So we will all wait and see whether a team which features such prodigious talent as Rose-Wiggins-Oladipo gets one step closer to being swept or whether their front office is able to do something about the front court battle to swing the momentum in this series.

Stay tuned for an explosive game 3…