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Spurs Have All the Answers in Win Over Jazz

San Anto­nio (NBA/Moore) – The San Anto­nio Spurs beat the Utah Jazz 106–91 Sun­day in Game 1 of their first round series, behind 28 points and 8 assists from Tony Parker. The Spurs have taken a 1–0 lead in their best-of-seven series.

For San Anto­nio, it was a way to wipe clean the mem­o­ries of last year’s embar­rass­ing first-round loss to the Griz­zlies and get a win in the first game on their home floor. They lead through­out the game and while Utah hung in there, the Spurs busted it open in the third, and were able to close the game out when the Jazz had cut the lead to ten in the fourth.

For the Jazz, it could have been much worse. They showed that they can hang, but thy also have sev­eral tal­ent issues which are likely to restrict them from being able to get past San Anto­nio and may keep it from being a com­pet­i­tive series. Jazz coach Ty Corbin made a seri­ous error in start­ing Josh Howard over DeMarre Car­roll, who had given the Jazz a seri­ous lift over the past sev­eral weeks. Howard came out and badly missed his first two shots, and the stage was set.

The Jazz face an inter­est­ing dilemma against San Anto­nio. Their strength is in their front­court, but the Spurs are more than will­ing to bring double-teams. The Jazz kicked out to shoot­ers but Gor­don Hay­ward and Devin Har­ris missed open looks on the perime­ter. As a result, the Jazz offense stalled. The big­ger prob­lem, though, may be that Tim Dun­can was able to play Al Jef­fer­son to a stand­still, and Paul Mill­sap didn’t dom­i­nate in his matchups ver­sus Matt Bon­ner and DeJuan Blair. Mill­sap has 20 points, 9 rebounds and 3 blocks… and it still wasn’t enough. The Jazz hon­estly have to run all their offense through Mill­sap to get the pres­sure off Jef­fer­son and spread the floor.

For San Anto­nio, just about what you would expect. Tony Parker dom­i­nated his matchup against Devin Har­ris, get­ting in the lane and hit­ting soft run­ners and jumpers, and Manu Gino­bili owned Gor­don Hay­ward, get­ting what­ever he wanted when­ever he wanted. He made sev­eral great plays, dish­ing over his shoul­der to Tim Dun­can and get­ting out in tran­si­tion for dunks (includ­ing one miss, but we won’t talk about that). The Spurs’ perime­ter bench attack didn’t even get involved that much out­side of Stephen Jackson’s 14.

Basi­cally, the Spurs won in just about every phase of the game. Turns out they’re the bet­ter team, fun­nily enough. Utah showed some things to sug­gest they might be able to steal one if they can get hot, but the Spurs showed that there is no let up from them against a weaker oppo­nent. It’s just Game 1. But every indi­ca­tion is that there will be no upset this year.

The Spurs are in the space they need to be.

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