View from the other side: Jazz post-game video

[duncan228]

A couple of Spurs highlights too.

Jerry Sloan

http://www.nba.com/jazz/video/2011/01/27/sloan012611MP4-1534774/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

Deron Williams

http://www.nba.com/jazz/video/2011/01/27/williams012611MP4-1534773/index.html

Jeremy Evans

http://www.nba.com/jazz/video/2011/01/27/evans012611MP4-1534771/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

Earl Watson

http://www.nba.com/jazz/video/2011/01/27/watson012611MP4-1534772/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

Monster slam

http://www.nba.com/video/games/jazz/2011/01/27/0021000676_sas_uta_play5.nba/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

Kirlenko Jam

http://www.nba.com/video/games/jazz/2011/01/26/0021000676_sas_uta_play1.nba/

Williams nice move

http://www.nba.com/video/games/jazz/2011/01/26/0021000676_sas_uta_play4.nba/

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Parker Highlights

http://www.nba.com/video/games/jazz/2011/01/26/0021000676_sas_uta_play3.nba/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

Hill And-One

http://www.nba.com/video/games/jazz/2011/01/26/0021000676_sas_uta_play2.nba/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

Game Highlights

http://www.nba.com/video/games/jazz/2011/01/26/0021000676_sas_uta_recap.nba/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

[awktalk]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/51127975-87/jazz-antonio-san-spurs.html.csp?page=2


The Jazz lost their sixth straight game Wednesday night at EnergySolutions Arena.

Yes, they played harder, with far more determination than they have usually shown during their cursed two weeks.

Yes, they fought back from a 19-point deficit in the third quarter and were alive inside the final minute.

Yes, Deron Williams was spectacular, scoring 39 points on 16-of-24 shooting, including only three misses from inside the three-point lie.

Still, league-leading San Antonio handed Utah a 112-105 defeat, leaving coach Jerry Sloan in no mood for talk of an improved effort.

“There are no moral victories in my mind,” he said. “Basketball should be played that way all the time, not just once in awhile.”

San Antonio’s Manu Ginobili scored 26 points and Tony Parker added 23 to offset the performance by Williams, who scored 29 points in the second half despite injuring his wrist.

“That’s why he’s a great player,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. “Great players aren’t great unless they’re competitors. … He’s going to play with every fiber of his body.”

Utah’s defense was porous, however.

The Spurs shot 56 percent through three quarters and became the eighth Jazz opponent in the last 11 games to score more than 100 points.

Said Sloan: “I thought our guys played much harder than they have been. … We had some great plays to hang in there. But we let them get what they wanted on the other end. We couldn’t stop them.”

Trailing by 86-67 late in the third quarter, the Jazz got as close as four in the final minute.

But San Antonio was too good. Combined with Denver’s win at Detroit, the Jazz dropped to 27-19 for the season and into seventh place in the overall Western Conference standings.

“We played better,” said Williams. “We played harder. But still, a loss tastes sour.”

Said San Antonio’s Tim Duncan, who finished with 13 points and seven rebounds despite a sore knee, “… They’re still playing very hard. They still execute well. It’s just a bad stretch they’re going through. I think they’ll be fine.”

Early in the second quarter, the Spurs used a 14-0 run to build a 43-29 lead.

The Jazz’s second unit went 4:24 without scoring while misfiring on eight straight possessions. Gary Neal had seven of the first nine points during the run, while Ginobili added five.

“We just happened to make some shots for short period of time,” Popovich said.

When Sloan went back to his starters, the Jazz got going offensively.

Al Jefferson scored 10 in the final 5:22, including a thunderous dunk over Duncan.

Still, the Jazz couldn’t stop the Spurs, who stayed hot in the third quarter, when they made 10 of their first 14 shots and built their biggest lead.

Down by 19, the Jazz appeared dead, but on consecutive possessions, they got a three-point play by rookie Jeremy Evans, a three-point play by Miles, a three-point shot by Miles and a dunk by Evans.

San Antonio took only an 88-78 lead into the fourth quarter.

The Jazz got closer, too.

They got the deficit down to 97-91 with 5:27 left and 107-103 with 31.9 seconds remaining. But the determined effort wasn’t enough.

“That’s as hard as we’ve played in a long time,” Miles said.

Asked what the Jazz were thinking when they dropped behind San Antonio by 19, he said, “Don’t stop playing. That’s one thing we prided ourselves on at the beginning of the season and we haven’t done lately.”

The next step?

Winning a game.

“We have to forget about what’s happened and start all over tomorrow,” said Andrei Kirilenko. “Just clear it all out, keep playing and help your teammate. If there is mistake, there is a mistake. Forget about it and keep playing.”