From Deseret News archives:
Blazers scorch cranky Jazz
The Jazz, though, were cooked long before all that.
Portland beat Utah 91-70 Saturday night at the Rose Garden, sending the 31-32 Jazz home for Monday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers with temperatures flaring but playoff hopes fading fast.
"The aggressiveness," Jazz point guard Carlos Arroyo said, "was there for them and, for us, I don't think we had it."
But the Jazz did have plenty of frustration.
The Blazers were up 81-62 when Bell lost his cool, leading to his ejection and a tantrum-throwing exhibition.
Bell was upset over a play that started with his turnover.
The Jazz swingman took a tackle-like swipe at Blazer Shareef Abdur-Rahim in a chasedown, and in turn Bell was pushed down as Portland's Ruben Patterson and Zach Randolph both rushed in.
That resulted in technical fouls for Abdur-Rahim and Patterson, and a type-2 flagrant with ejection for Bell.
"I don't know if I'm right or not," added Sloan, who did not feel Bell should have been ejected for an open-court foul. "But that's what appeared to me happened."
On his way out, Bell sent a message stand and a cloth-covered railing to the floor in a Rose Garden hallway leading to the Jazz lockerroom.
"It's (expletive)," he said after exiting the lockerroom later. "You can print that in the . . . paper."
Not that any of it really mattered at that point.
The Jazz, who failed to take advantage of Denver's Saturday-loss to Detroit in the race for the Western Conference's eighth and final playoff position, were out of this one from the start.
Portland, 30-32 and also fighting for the West's final playoff spot, opened with a blaze, jumping to a 30-18 opening-quarter lead behind 72.2 percent (13-of-18) field shooting.
At one point late in the first, the Blazers were up by 16, 28-12.
Looking for a way some way, any way for the Jazz to start the second half better than the first, Sloan changed things up.
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