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Jazz taught lesson by veteran Spurs
By Tim Buckley
Deseret Morning News
Saturday, March 31, 2007
SAN ANTONIO ─ They didn't get sent to detention, like they did in December,
and have so many times previously here.
But the Jazz did get schooled again by San Antonio in a 102-93 loss to
the Spurs on Friday night, and at least one student from Utah ─ starting
point guard Deron Williams ─ hopes the lesson was understood by all.
"They play beautiful basketball," Williams said of the 52-20 Spurs, who
won their sixth straight game and increased to five games their lead on the
Jazz for the No. 3 playoff seed in the NBA's Western Conference playoffs.
"You know, we can learn a lot from a team like this ─ the way they
share the ball, the way they're unselfish. They make extra passes. They
really don't care who gets the glory. They just want to win.
"They make you work on defense. They may you work on offense. And when
stuff goes wrong for them, they tighten up on defense," Williams added. "When
stuff goes wrong for us, we look to offense. You know, guys start getting
selfish ─ and (think) they're going to turn around with offense. But that's
not the case."
Williams' scathing review came after the 47-25 Jazz, who were playing
their first of four straight on the road, fell for the sixth straight time
away from home.
And after they dropped to 0-9 at AT&T Center, the latest home of the
Spurs, site of a 33-point Jazz last April and a 23-point shortly after
Christmas.
And after they lost for the 16th straight time in San Antonio, a
futility streak dating to 1999.
And it didn't stop there.
"It's been all year," Williams said. "So many of our problems ─ we've
got to start getting me, me, me."
Not everyone in the Jazz lockerroom publicly agreed with Williams.
"One of the great parts about playing on this team, as far as I'm
concerned, is that we don't have guys that get caught up in themselves and
start trying to take over a game alone. I don't necessarily think that
happened tonight, either," starting shooting guard Derek Fisher said. "I just
think there were stretches where our spacing was improper, we didn't move
properly on our offensive execution ─ and then that allowed San Antonio to
continue to tighten the clamps on us, and so then it looked like a guy was
maybe trying to do something more than what he normally would do. But I would
be reluctant to say that guys got selfish at any point. I know that's how
Coach (Jerry Sloan) feels, and he has a different perspective from the bench.
I'm out on the floor, so I'm not disagreeing, either."
"I'm pretty proud of our game tonight, because for the most part we
fight and we fight hard," added starting small forward Andrei Kirilenko, who
seemingly was on the receiving end of words from Williams on more than one
occasion Friday. "We help each other, we make them make mistakes. But some
moments are kind of like, 'relax for like two minutes, bam, they get like
10-points lead.' "
The Jazz played from behind after a 35-21 second quarter allowed the
Spurs ─ who got double-doubles from both point Tony Parker (23 points,
game-high 11 assists) and Tim Duncan (20 points, 14 rebounds) ─ to take a
12-point lead into halftime.
Utah did get to within as close as six points on four occasions in the
third quarter, and again once in the fourth, when a Fisher-fed Paul Millsap
dunk made it 83-77 San Antonio with just more than eight minutes to go.
But the Spurs answered as Manu Ginobili drove past Kirilenko and over
Millsap for a layup and hit the free throw that followed, accounting for
three of his game-high 25 off-the-bench points ─ "We couldn't deal with
him," Sloan said ─ and helping San Antonio obtain a lead that remained at
nine or more the rest of the way.
"We went through stretches, it appeared to me, where it looked like we
didn't believe we could win. So we started just taking a couple shots, rather
than trying to execute and stay with what we would like to do," Sloan said.
"And that's what the kind of defense they put on you causes you to have a
tendency to do.
"When you don't have the experience of being in that kind of game,"
the Jazz coach added, "then you lose your confidence, or lose your ability to
think you can win."
The Jazz can only hope that's not the case on Sunday in Houston they
face the Rockets, who went into their late-starting game against the Los
Angeles Lakers on Friday night just 1 1/2 games behind Utah for homecourt
advantage in a potential 4-5 first-round playoff series.
"We're growing. We're learning. We're still a young team. We've just
been together a couple years. We've still got a lot of room to improve,"
Williams said. "But I think we should look at games like this and look at
teams like this, and see how (the Spurs) play, and we should try to take
something from it."
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660207746,00.html
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