Suddenly, the Lakers are faced with the same problem they presented the Jazz in the first two games of their Western Conference semifinals series.

It's not too fun on the other side.

When the Jazz are wheeling and dealing on offense, point guard Deron Williams can drive to the lane with ease, power forward Carlos Boozer picks and pops and center Mehmet Okur can line up open shots from the outside.

All happened in Game 3, during which the Lakers, who often create matchup problems, were faced with some of their own. They still lead the best-of-seven game series, 2-1.

It all leaves the conundrum of who to guard, who to stick, who to let go and who to double team -- something the Lakers could not figure out in Friday's loss.

"We tried to take what they gave us out there," Okur said. "[Williams] did such a good job drawing inside and created open shots and I was open, able to knock those shots down."

The Lakers will use today to try to reconfigure some things, with Game 4 looming Sunday in Utah.

It is the first Sunday game the Jazz have hosted in more than seven years. To top it off, it's an afternoon game, something Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan said shouldn't affect his players.

"I think a lot of players would rather play an afternoon game because they don't have all day to sit around and ponder what you've got to do," he said. "You get up, eat breakfast, you go to the game."

The pressure is on again, but this time for both teams in the best-of-seven series.

"It's [the] playoffs man," Williams said. "It gets tough. It's a grind-it-out game."

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