Utah Jazz: Win 6th in 7 games as Brewer leads team with 25 points

If only they were all so simple.

Actually, they have been lately for the Jazz, who beat Memphis 120-93 Monday night at EnergySolutions Arena for their third straight win and sixth in seven games.

It was the 10th consecutive win over the Grizzlies for 10-7 Utah, which led Chicago by as many as 25 on Thursday, Portland by as many as 27 on Saturday and Memphis by as many as 32 in the fourth quarter.

The lone blemish in the Jazz's last seven: A defeat last Tuesday to Oklahoma City that really riled coach Jerry Sloan.

"The last three games, after the Oklahoma City loss, (we've had) our focus on stopping people," point guard Deron Williams said after Utah's highest-scoring game of the season. "We're holding percentages down, and we're executing on offense."

Are they ever.

After shooting slightly better than 60 percent from the field against both Chicago and Portland, the Jazz hit 58.4 percent against Memphis - leaving them just shy of making it 60 or better in three straight games and becoming the first NBA team to do so since Indiana in 1994.

Their biggest scorers Monday, not coincidentally, were rather proficient.

Ronnie Brewer led the Jazz with a game-high 25 points, one off his career high, and made 11-of-16 from the field.

Boozer had a 25-point, 15-rebound double-double and converted 9-of-14.

Williams scored 22 while shooting 9-for-15, and rookie Wesley Matthews had a season-high 17 while hitting 6-of-7 on a night six Jazz players reached double figures (Kyrylo Fesenko had 11 off the bench and rookie Eric Maynor 10) and all nine who dressed had at least two points.

"We're doing a good job of hitting the open man, and we're sharing the ball offensively," said Boozer, who has 10 double-doubles in 17 games. "If a guy has an open shot, we get it to him. It's fun to play that way."

Fun was a go-to word afterward for Boozer, who is shooting 70 percent from the field (49-for-70) in his last five games - all ones in which he's scored 20-plus.

"I'm very confident in my game," said Boozer, a two-time NBA All-Star who spent an apparently miserable summer talking mostly about wanting to play elsewhere. "I don't want to blow it out of proportion, but I'm having fun. I'm just playing off my teammates."

Beneficiary of the good times is Sloan, whose injury-plagued team - playing Monday without backup small forward Andrei Kirilenko (strained back) among a host of others - has one game remaining, Friday vs. Indiana, in a six-game homestand.

"We passed the basketball, and shared the ball, and made some nice plays," Sloan said after a 28-assist night.