Giricek is back in uniform, but Miles remains at No. 2

LOS ANGELES — Veteran swingman Gordan Giricek was back in a Jazz uniform for Friday night's late-starting game against the Los Angeles Lakers, but — at least for the foreseeable future — C.J. Miles will continue as the Jazz's backup shooting guard behind Ronnie Brewer.

Despite whatever shortcomings the 20-year-old may have.

"His (Miles') biggest problem is he gets in the game and searches out stuff that's not there to begin with," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said early Friday. "We try to tell him, 'Let the game come to you a little bit ... and maybe you can play a little bit more relaxed."'

Even with Giricek back, Sloan suggested he'll stick with Miles in the regular rotation for as long as the third-year pro continues to do what is asked of him.

"If he makes shots and makes plays and works hard, runs the floor defensively and busts his butt, that's all we ask," Sloan said. "We're not asking him to jump through the gym, or jump over the top of the basket, or anything like that ... Just run the floor.

"That's what we asked of everybody. Some guys don't understand that. They have a tendency to think we're mistreating 'em if we ask them to run hard. That's not our point at all. The idea is we've got to do that to try to win."

Giricek was banished from the team for three games prior to Friday because he lost a war of words with Sloan during a Dec. 19 loss at Charlotte.

He was reinstated Thursday.

HARPRING TESTS WAIT: Jazz small forward Matt Harpring will wait until sometime early next month before undergoing a colonoscopy and biopsy as doctors continue to keep tabs on his problematic gastrointestinal issues.

Harpring said Friday he'll try to find a time when medical schedules can be coordinated with a two-day break in the Jazz schedule, possibly sometime Jan 4-9.

Such a window for the Jazz occurs Jan. 6-7, and an earlier one exists next Thursday and Friday — both bookends to next Saturday's road game at Portland.

One day is needed to prep for the colonoscopy, and another is needed for the actual procedure.

Harpring became violently ill and passed out on a Dec. 14 flight from Portland to Salt Lake City — the sixth similar episode he's had in 15 months.

The veteran subsequently underwent multiple tests, the last of which prompted the call for both the colonoscopy and a precautionary biopsy.

Harpring missed three games but has played in four games since, including Friday's.