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Brad Rock: Game 3 loss, and history, spell trouble for the Utah Jazz

SALT LAKE CITY -- George Santayana, a Spanish-born author, poet and philosopher coined this famous phrase: “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.”

That’s not good news for the Jazz.

History says the Houston Rockets are going to win this conference semifinal series. So did the eyeball test in the Rockets’ 113-92 Friday win.

Being down 2-1 in a playoff series has usually held dramatic consequences for the Jazz. Throughout their playoff history, they have won 18 series when they went ahead 2-1 and lost just four. But when they fell behind 2-1 in a series, they won six and lost 15.