In Revue, Jazz lose but learn

TAYLORSVILLE — Friday night left the Utah Jazz little to be proud of, but tossing out that and the injuries that kept Ronnie Brewer (hamstring, ankle) and Hafa Araujo (adductor tendinitis) inactive for all or most of the Rocky Mountain Revue, the two weeks of camp were reasonably successful for Utah.

"We got a good feel for Morris Almond. I think we've gotten a better feel from (second-round draft pick Kyrylo) Fesenko. We've gotten what we expected from Paul Millsap. And from Dee (Brown). Dee played very well (in Games 4 and 5)," Jazz player personnel director Walt Perrin said.

Brown and Millsap finished the Revue on the bench with injuries and less-than-successful nights as the Jazz fell hard to the Chicago Bulls, 78-60, in the tournament's final game of the year.

Millsap, named tourney MVP — voting was tabulated before the final game — had only three points and missed three of his four shots Friday and had one rebound.

Millsap banged knees with someone and left Friday's game after playing 17 minutes.

"It didn't seem like it after the performance tonight," Millsap said of his MVP award. However, coming into Friday, he had two game-winning shots, the 3-pointer that sent Thursday's game to overtime, a scoring average of 17.2 points and 8.6 rebounds a game.

The rest of the all-tournament team: Philadelphia's Louis Williams, who was a close second in the MVP voting, and the hard-working Louis Amundson, plus Seattle's Jeff Green and two from Atlanta — Shelden Williams and Acie Law IV.

Millsap impressed Jazz brass by coming to camp in better shape than he was in an impressive rookie season and with a mid-range jumper and leadership qualities.

Brown played 18 minutes Friday with three assists and five points, sitting out the latter stages after getting a knee to the left quadriceps. Brown and Millsap are expected to be OK, trainer Gary Briggs said.

The Jazz now have a number of personnel issues to ponder soon regarding the futures of Brown, Araujo, Fesenko, several free agents from their Revue team, whom they may like enough to invite to fall veterans' camp, and 20-year-old C.J. Miles.