Adjustments Utah must make if they still want to steal a game in Houston:

#1 Offensive Spacing - with the exception of 2 Boozer dunks and an open Okur baseline jumper (he missed it) Utah's screen-roll got their bigs nothing. In the 1st half, Houston was sticking with the screener and going under the screen, giving DWill some open looks. 2nd half, they hedged and often either rotated a guy top-side to DWill or ran a guy across the lane to the screener. Either way, Utah was playing 3-2 on the weakside but except for 2 occasions (a baseline cut by AK which he promptly fumbled because he jumped before he caught it and a cut by Harpring which he also fumbled away from point blank range) they could never take advantage from it. Must have better spacing with Giricek on the wing and whoever's playing SF closer to the baseline. I like all the shots Okur got, Boozer needs to face-up Yao on the left wing from 12 feet and go to work. To much time on the right wing where he's not as comfortable.

#2 Andrei Kirilenko needs to play more. Aside from TMac torching Giri/Fish, in 15 min Kirilenko had 1 blk, a stl, a forced missed layup and 2 deflections resulting in TO's. Also, the more Harpring played the more he started forcing shots. Would like AK to play closer to 25-30 min.

#3 Don't give the ball to Fisher when the shotclock is winding down. Everytime this occured (and it happened WAY TOO MUCH) he shucked off all his teammates and went one-on-one. While it worked in the 2nd qtr, it broke us down in the 3rd and won't help us win this series. Better getting it to Giricek or throwing it inside than letting Fish dribble drive or worse, launch a pullup where he can't even see the basket.

Conclusion: Boozer, Okur, Millsap will all play better. Our FT shooting should improve slightly (this was the difference in Game 1 because Houston shot like #### too). DWill played great in his first game. The way Houston came out (and they looked just awful at times) this looked like our best shot, but we played one of our worst games too. Game 2 is so very winneable. We still have a great shot at stealing homecourt, then we can open it up at Energy Solutions and make it a more of the up-and-down series that can swing things totally in our control.