Utah Jazz notebook: Team proving the notion of 'Home Sweet Home'

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz seem to have developed somewhat of a split personality when it comes to playing at home as opposed to playing on the road.

At EnergySolutions Arena, they're a ferocious team that fiercely defends its home court, feeding off their frenzied fans to grab gritty wins over the 76ers and Hornets.

But away from home, they've been much more meek and mild, losing by lopsided margins of 25, 17 and 15 points to the Lakers, Nuggets and Spurs, respectively, in their first three road trips of the season.

Every team in the NBA has a much higher comfort level at home, obviously — after all, that's why it's called the "home-court advantage" — but it's been even more pronounced for the Jazz through their first five games of the season.

"Obviously, you'd like to take care of your home business," said Jazz head coach Tyrone Corbin. "You'd like to win all your games. But right now, this is where we are, we're at home and you feel better about being at home.

You're more familiar with your surroundings. You've got a home crowd that will boost us up if we get into a lull during the course of the game.

"But you've still got to play the game. You can't just expect because you're at home you're going to win the game. You've got to go out and take it.

"We want to continue to grow, whether it's at home or on the road," Corbin said. "Obviously, you feel better about playing at home than you do sometimes on the road, but we're going to have to play road games. So you have to make sure that you understand how important the home games are, first of all, and then get better as a team to give yourself a chance to win on the road."

TRADING PLACES: The last few seasons, whenever the Jazz faced the Hornets, all the buzz was about the point guard matchup between Utah's Deron Williams and New Orleans' Chris Paul, two of the league's best at their position.

That buzz might still be heard in New Jersey or Los Angeles these days, but it will no longer be heard in Salt Lake City. Williams was traded away last February to the Nets, and Paul was dealt to the Clippers in December.

"I think it just shows how the NBA works — it's a business," said Jazz second-year forward Gordon Hayward. "Everything can change in a matter of seconds."