In another of our continuing series, five things to keep an eye out for tonight in the Rockets-Jazz Game 4 tonight.

1. Sustainable resources. Houston's one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the league; Utah is the absolutely worst on the defensive glass. In Games 1 and 3, Houston was able to exploit this for tons of second-chance opportunities -- it didn't matter in Game 1, when the Rockets couldn't hit the broadside of Charles Barkley's ass; it was the difference, however, in Game 3 as Houston earned an almost remarkable 16 o-boards in 42 opportunities. Carl Landry and Luis Scola are the culprits here; Carlos Boozer and friends need to box out much better to keep Houston's wayfaring offense from bolstering it with easy buckets.

2. Retrospective exploration. Houston's vaunted defense (second best in the league this season) has had trouble slowing down Utah's vaunted offense. The Rockets are well equipped to contain an offense with a star wing scorer or a lanky post stud. But the Jazz offense is too diverse for easy solutions, and it's showed. Even in Houston's Thursday win, Utah's offense was strong, scoring 92 points in just 82 possessions. Rafer Alston's offense in Game 3 was beautiful, but he needs to make Deron Williams look less lovely to keep Utah's offense from romping.

Three more, after the jump.


3. Defend thy honor, Paul Millsap! The cult favorite is getting 16 minutes a game in this series, but has only a total of 14 points and 10 rebounds in the ledger. Part of this is the insanely solid defense of bench fellows Landry and Chuck Hayes. But Utah's need an offensive post pulse when Boozer sits, and Millsap has got to be the man ... lest Jarron Collins gets some burn.

4. Atta Turk. Mehmet Okur hasn't shot well (31%) this series -- thank Scola and Dikembe Mutombo for that. Thursday's 3-of-13 effort seems particularly damning, especially since Utah relies on Okur not to be a heavy lifter, but an efficient offensive roleplayer. The guy isn't playing because of his defense, so open shots need to be taken and made.

5. Hack-a-Mac. Tracy McGrady's one of the best foul-drawing scorers in the league. The Jazz are foul happy. Any night now, Mac could end up with 20 FTAs ... if he plays aggressively.