SAN ANTONIO — If there was a theme in Jazz camp Tuesday, it was frustration.

Frustration over being on the brink of elimination from the NBA playoffs. Frustration over what San Antonio Spurs swingman Manu Ginobili did to them in the fourth quarter of Monday's Game 4 loss. Frustration over the play of each other.

Frustration too, go figure, over being asked about their various frustrations.

Is it any wonder?

Shouldn't be, Jazz power forward Carlos Boozer suggested.

"We care," Boozer said. "That's why we got frustrated.

"When you're a competitor," he added, "you're gonna be frustrated at times — because you want to win so bad."

And, at least right now, things aren't going so good for the Jazz.

After falling 91-79 Monday, Utah heads into tonight's Game 5 at San Antonio trailing 3-1 to the Spurs in the NBA Western Conference finals. One more loss in the best-of-seven series, and the Jazz's hopes for advancing to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1998 fall to the wayside.

Perhaps that is why Boozer suggested the Jazz need to quickly overcome all that annoys them — and it sure seemed to be a long list Tuesday.

For starters, there was the play of Ginobili, who scored 16 of his team-high 22 points in Monday's fourth quarter, including eight during a decisive 11-1 Spurs run.

"He's very athletic. I mean, that would frustrate anybody," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said of the Spurs All-Star. "Just like Michael Jordan — he would frustrate you too, because he had such great athletic ability you couldn't do anything about it. Ginobili has tremendous athletic ability.

"He's very, very quick. He's a tough guy, plays tough," Sloan added. "That gets under a lot of people's skin, (if you) don't like to compete."

Then there was the matter of Jazz players besides Boozer and point guard Deron Williams doing little to help Utah's cause Monday, especially on the offensive end of the floor.

Jazz reserves combined for just nine points in 50-plus collective minutes, and no one — starter or sub — besides Boozer and Williams managed more than Andrei Kirilenko's nine points.

"I think we're handling it very well," Boozer said when asked about the burden with which he and Williams, who finished with a game-high 27 points Monday, have been carrying.

"I think we're playing very well, considering we've had to carry the load throughout most of these playoffs," he added before calling out his teammates in the loudest of fashions. "But we have guys that are confident enough to pick it up, and we're gonna need those guys to pick it up."