Not to give away any proprietary information, but the strategy for tonight's game won't exactly be difficult for the Jazz. The top-secret game plan? Do what you did on Wednesday.
That's the advantage, and the curse, of playing a team twice in a few days, as the Jazz do with the Lakers tonight at Staples Center (7:30 p.m. MST, KJZZ). With tactics and personnel fresh in each other's minds, both teams know what the other wants to do. But that doesn't mean the games will be a Xerox of each other.
Far from it, in fact. "When you play back-to-back like that, it's difficult to beat a team twice," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan. "But it's not impossible if you get yourself ready to play."
Still, history shows that home-and-home meetings within a few days of each other produce splits more than half the time. That means that the Jazz, who already own a Delta Center victory over Los Angeles -- 93-85 on Wednesday -- are more likely to reverse the outcome, not repeat it.
