Season of the tank!-2013-14 regular season

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[QUOTE]The 22-year-old Burks, now in his third NBA season, has taken his game to a new level of consistency in recent weeks. He

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[QUOTE]Rush and Corbin met Wednesday morning before the team

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[QUOTE]Kings center DeMarcus Cousins sat the entire second quarter against the Jazz after picking up two fouls in the first quarter. Malone said the decision was due in part to the Jazz

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[QUOTE]Gay, Quincy Acy and Aaron Gray, all of whom arrived in California from Toronto a few days ago, were unable to play against the Jazz because Vasquez had been held up dealing with visa issues and was unable to complete his physical in Canada before Wednesday

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[QUOTE]Williams describes the Jazz as "Derrick

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Ty Lawson was held scoreless. The defense of the Jazz bigs to stay in the paint and take away the driving lines was terrific. The coaching staff has made some nice adjustments that are matching the strengths of this team and it is showing.

Just coming back from injury had nothing to do with it?

The last 4 games the Jazz opponents are 20 of 68 from three point range. Holding teams to 29% from three is awesome and holding teams to 17 attempts a game is impressive. This is all part of the defensive adjustment the coaching staff has made and it is working.

The coaching staff doing something right?

[QUOTE]Nice work by Favors in the middle and the other guys to stay to their tasks and get the job done.

Gordon Hayward was big time tonight. Only LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Durant and Kevin Love have had games with 30 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists. He also had zero turnovers. He is shooting the ball above last year

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BREAKDOWN

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[QUOTE]BREAKDOWN

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[QUOTE]It

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[QUOTE]BALANCED EFFORT: The Jazz currently have seven players averaging in double figures in scoring, and Corbin loves it.

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[QUOTE]Miami is looking to deal for a young wing player who can score and take some of the load off Dwyane Wade. A few GMs have identified Boston

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Hayward scored a season-high 30 points to go with a career-high 13 rebounds

He and Evans stepped up on the boards!

Point guard Trey Burke had 10 points and 10 assists for his second double-double in a week.

But shot terribly and took too many shots again.

"Ty Lawson just came back off injury so you give him the benefit," Utah coach Ty Corbin said.

I'd think you would.

Denver fell to 6-3 on its home court after losing just three times at Pepsi Center all of last year.

They don't have the altitude advantage against the Jazz they have against everyone else. It makes for a good rivalry when both teams are competitive.

The Jazz, meanwhile, are happy to steal one on the road. After starting the year 1-14 Utah is 5-5 in its last 10 games.

"We have all of our guys," Corbin said. "We have different options."

Lindsey will have to make trades if they keep up that pace to get back to tanking.

Hayward has two 30-point games in his career and both have come against Denver. The Jazz have the best 3-point shooting percentage (45.4) in the league during December.

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[QUOTE]Utah has won back-to-back games for the second time this year, the first time they've done it on the road. They're 5-5 over their last 10 games. Four of those losses, by the way, came with Marvin Williams out with an injury and Utah also missed Derrick Favors for two of those.

A couple of things from tonight:

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[QUOTE]Everything that happens when you play the Spurs happens on purpose. They force you to take certain shots, they get the shots they want. They don

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[QUOTE]SALT LAKE CITY