Jazz Off To Best Start In Eight Years

[RonnieBrewer (Ronnie Brewer)]

Jazz Off To Best Start In Eight Years

Nov 15, 2006 7:19 pm US/Mountain

SALT LAKE CITY The Utah Jazz fully expected to be better this season than
they have for the last few.

But a 7-1 start is better than anyone could have hoped and better than the
Jazz have done for a long time. It's only the third time the team has won
seven of its first eight games and it hasn't happened since the lockout
shortened 1999 season.
這是爵士史上第三次以七勝一負開季, 上一次是1999封館球季。

Utah's other 7-1 start was in 1989, Jerry Sloan's first full season as coach.
Sloan, who took over for Frank Layden in December 1988, needs nine more wins
to reach 1,000 in his career.
再前一次是在1989年, Jerry Sloan執教爵士的第一個完整球季,
他在1988年12月接替Frank Layden的位置。

Sloan admits to being pleasantly surprised with how well his rookies and
second-year players have caught on to his system.
Sloan對於隊上的年輕人能夠理解他的系統, 感到很高興。

"The door is opened up for you and if you want to play, that's when you step
out there and say ‘OK, I'm ready to go,‘" Sloan said before Wednesday's
practice.

So far, the youngest members of the Jazz have shown they are ready to
contribute and in one case, lead.

Point guard Deron Williams is hardly playing like it's only his second year
in the league. He is third on the team in scoring at 16.5 points per game and
averaging 8.5 assists while leading Utah's resurgent offense, which has
averaged 105.6 points in the first eight games.

Williams also leads the team with 13 steals.

"We're running. We're outscoring teams. We're getting stops when we need
them," Williams said. "We're doing all the right things. It's not like it's
just a fluke."

Williams had 16 points and seven assists Tuesday in Utah's 112-90 win over
the Los Angeles Clippers. Rookie Ronnie Brewer went 5-for-7 with 12 points
and two blocks and fellow rookie Paul Millsap had four blocks and four steals,
leaving even Sloan impressed by what the Jazz got with the 47th pick in the
draft.

Mostly, Sloan likes the way Millsap has listened without questioning orders.
Sloan非常喜歡Millsap聽從指示, 不帶一分懷疑的態度。

"One thing about Paul is the good Lord was good to him and gave him two ears
and he's using them. Everybody thinks they're supposed to have two mouths.
There's a big difference there," Sloan said. "Once they learn that philosophy
─ that you've got two ears and one mouth, they've got a better chance of
listening and learning."
Sloan說: 上帝給Paul一對耳朵, 而他也善用它們。其他人總是認為自己有兩張嘴。
         這是不同之處。只要他們學會一張嘴兩只耳朵的哲學, 他們將能聽到及
         學習更多東西。

Utah visits Seattle on Friday, then hosts Phoenix the next night. If the Jazz
win both, they'll be 9-1 and match the best 10-game start in team history.
The best start for a season was 1996-97, when the Jazz opened 17-2 and went
on to win the first of consecutive Western Conference championships.

The Jazz were never more than two games above .500 last season, so nobody is
looking too far beyond this weekend.
上季爵士從未超過五成勝率多於兩場勝利, 因此沒有人敢看得太遠。

"We just want to continue with it. We want to keep going and build as big
of a lead as we can," Williams said. "I think it was important for us to get
off to this start so we're not trying to play catch-up like we were all of
last year."

The Jazz will be without forward Andrei Kirilenko (sprained ankle) and
shooting guard Gordan Giricek (Achilles' tendon) at least for Friday's game.
Vice president for basketball operations Kevin O'Connor said neither player
will make the trip to Seattle and their status for the game against the Suns
was uncertain.


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