"Kind of the same story."

It's a tale all-too familiar for the Jazz, who went with usual No. 3 point Randy Livingston over McLeod for their 26th different starting lineup of the season.

That count is second-highest in the league this season, trailing only Indiana's 27 different opening lineups.

This time Sloan merely wanted to give some playing time to Livingston, who had not played — coach's decision — in Utah's previous five games. He wound up logging a season-high 29 minutes, scoring 10 points on 3-of-5 field shooting.

Utah also got a career-high 12 points from center Curtis Borchardt, plus another 16 from Matt Harpring.

What the Jazz did not get, though, was the inspiration to carry them through a fourth quarter against an opponent playing like it needed the victory much more than they did.

"I don't know how many games," Okur said, "we've lost in the fourth quarter."

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