Utah Jazz: Quirky plays can't detour Jazz
One came in the fourth quarter, when coach Jerry Sloan not exactly one known to call an overabundance of timeouts signaled for a quick t.o. that negated an odd-man Jazz break.
The reason he called it, Sloan said afterward, was because forward Andrei Kirilenko was injured.
"He already had told me to take him out of the ballgame," Sloan said, "and I was trying to get Ronnie Brewer in.
"If somebody's hurt, I'm gonna get them out of the game," the Jazz coach added. "It's only two points. If I win the ballgame or lose the ball, I'm not gonna worry about it."
Kirilenko sustained a bruised left knee, but a Jazz spokesman said the sixth man "should be fine" for Utah's next game Wednesday.
The other bizarre play late in the first half, when almost everyone on the floor stopped because they heard a whistle.
Guard Kyle Korver kept going, though, and turned a Jazz stop on one end into a dunk on the other.
Referees were asked for an explanation afterward, but crew chief Bennett Salvatore refused to give one to a pool reporter.
It's believed the whistle, though, came from the crowd and officials had no choice but to allow play to continue.
HE SAID IT: Jazz power forward Paul Millsap, on playing his second straight game with a brace on his injured left knee: "It's still bothering me. It's gonna bother me for a while."
HE SAID IT II: Millsap, on Golden State's quick-fire style: "We like it when they come down and jack up shots. It starts our offense."
MILESTONE MANIA: Jazz radio play-by-play announcer Hot Rod Hundley will call his 3,000th game for the team on Wednesday night, when Utah plays host to New Orleans the franchise's original home before moving to Utah.
Hundley, the only member of the original Jazz staff who has worked for the franchise for all of its 35 seasons, has missed only 14 games since starting as the team's radio/TV simulcast voice.
Recent comments
Boy, I would hate sitting behind him.
Bradley on the front row? | Jan. 6, 2009 at 2:13 p.m.
another quirky play was sloans time out on the 3 on 1 fastbreak.
Time out | Jan. 6, 2009 at 1:37 p.m.
what are you talking about Matt?
Anonymous | Jan. 6, 2009 at 12:51 p.m.
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