From Deseret News archives:
'Unorganized' Jazz out of tune vs. Nets
It wasn't long ago, after all just one week, and four games earlier that Jazz point guard Deron Williams got a 61-footer to fall at the end of the third and Utah went on to win its season-opener against Dallas.
It wasn't mere fortune, however, that propelled New Jersey to its 91-83 victory over the Jazz on Wednesday night at Continental Airlines Arena.
Mostly, it was a lack of execution that killed the Jazz.
"It's a perfect example," point guard Keith McLeod said. "If we don't do what we need to do on offense, we end up going 1-on-1, and sometimes that leads to bad shots."
And sometimes that leads to missed shots. And sometimes that leads to lost leads. And this time that led to the Jazz's second defeat of the season, one which seemed destined long before Planinic tossed up a prayer and watched an answer drop.
"Right from the beginning of the game," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said, "they did what they wanted to do. . . . The game was so easy, and they got everything they wanted.
Sloan was disgusted by the Jazz's defensive effort even more than season-low 37.8 percent shooting.
"If they wanted to go baseline, they went baseline. If they wanted to go in the middle, they went up the middle," he said. "We didn't have any idea of what we were trying to do to try to stop 'em. We looked like a very unorganized team."
Despite such reality, the Jazz led by one at halftime and were down just five after Andrei Kirilenko's 3-pointer with five minutes left in the third.
That, though, is when the Jazz's soft-scrimmage mentality hit them hard.
The Nets reeled off a 10-0 run as Utah went scoreless for a 4:25 stretch, mustering only four turnovers, a Kirilenko trey-try airball and misses from Matt Harpring, Jarron Collins and McLeod over nine straight possessions.
Sloan said the Jazz "didn't have any semblance of order out there at all." McLeod, the point at the time of the dry spell, said they "were getting out-hustled for loose balls and everything." Collins said they've "got to play hard basketball" and "control the tempo by executing," and that when they "don't do those things, we'll get beat."
Planicic said goodnight, Utah.
"That was a huge shot," New Jersey's Richard Jefferson said.
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