Jazz: After slow start, Jazz take charge
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Jazz: After slow start, Jazz take charge
Down 18-2 in first quarter, Utah comes storming back to win in
familiar fashion
By Phil Miller
The Salt Lake Tribune
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The roaring comebacks don't even seem like the impressive
part any more. The sleepwalking starts, the jet-fuel finishes, the how-can-
we-possibly-win-this tenor of their double-digit deficits?
Seen it. Done it. What else you got?
No, the amazing thing about, say, the Jazz's 104-88 humiliation of the
Grizzlies on Wednesday is the comprehensive way they set about digging those
holes. C'mon, when you manage to score two points in the game's first 6 1/2
minutes, when three of your starters combine to miss all 12 of their
first-quarter shots, when you fall behind 18-2 by allowing Pau Gasol to
essentially stand under the basket and drop the ball through the
hoop? And all this against the conference's worst team?
Now that's some first-rate malfeasance.
"I don't think we try to fall behind," said Mehmet Okur, only moderately
convincing. "But we know if we do, we can come back."
Heck, it's practically in their playbook by now. The Jazz have won 13 times
this year after trailing by 10 or more, and six times they've rallied from a
15-point deficit. The last time the Jazz were in FedEx Forum, they coasted to
a 13-point deficit before reeling in the staggering Grizzlies. This time?
Considering they still had 41 minutes to close that 16-point gap, it barely
constituted a challenge.
Especially once Okur came alive, and Matt Harpring checked into the game.
(裝死!)
That duo outscored Memphis 9-0 in the final 81 seconds of the first half to
reduce the task to just a five-point margin. Then they combined with Carlos
Boozer on a 13-2 run to close the third quarter, retake the lead and reduce
the fourth quarter to simply exposing the gruesome Grizzlies.
"Memo got his rhythm back in his shooting, he carried it on and it gave him
more energy to play," assessed Jazz coach Jerry Sloan.
And Harpring? "Matty kicked ass!" Boozer, who finished with 24 points and 16
rebounds, shouted in a jubilant Jazz locker room.
The Grizzlies would undoubtedly agree. Harpring's standard jitterbug - curl
around a screen, take a pass from the wing, and launch it in one motion - was
practically machine-like in its efficiency. And when it wasn't there, he
attacked the basket, earning 11 free throws and making them all.
Harpring finished with 25 points, the most he's scored all season, and he
needed only 12 shots (and 29 minutes) to get them.
"Matt Harpring was terrific. We wouldn't have been in the ballgame at all if
he hadn't had a terrific first half," Sloan gushed. "Everyone looks for him
because he knows how to get open."
That's not as easy as it looks, Sloan insisted. "He doesn't screw around with
it. Some guys got to dribble a little bit more, maybe wave to somebody up in
the stands. First thing you know, the game's over and you're still not open,"
Sloan said. "But Matt doesn't waste any time at all, and he makes guys guard
him when he's on offense. He doesn't just stand out there, he uses screens
well. It's amazing how he gets open."
Certainly the Grizzlies seemed amazed. Or maybe just dazed. After taking that
18-2 lead, in part because of Okur's 0-for-4, Deron Williams' 0-for-3 and
Derek Fisher's 0-for-5 start, Memphis began concentrating on missing shots
and making turnovers, and frittered away half of its lead by the end of the
quarter. The Grizzlies restored the lead to 15 briefly, but once the Jazz's
long-lost lineup became comfortable again - Utah's starting five played as a
unit for the first time since Jan. 27, 11 games ago - Memphis had no chance.
http://www.sltrib.com/jazz/ci_5328797
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