AK judges Jazz play as weaker than before

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AK judges Jazz play as weaker than before
By Michael C. Lewis
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 05/25/2007 02:49:41 AM MDT

Have the Jazz simply hit their ceiling?

  Forward Andrei Kirilenko wondered whether that's the case - which might
explain why they are playing "weaker" against the San Antonio Spurs in the
NBA's Western Conference finals than they did earlier in the playoffs.

  "I don't think we're playing the game we played in the first or second
round," Kirilenko said after practice Thursday. "I think we're playing weaker.
I don't know why. Probably, we kind of not really believe in ourselves.
Probably, we think probably that's our ceiling, for this moment. Maybe."

  Pressed on why he thinks the Jazz might have maxed out for the moment
or begun to lack confidence heading into Game 3 against the Spurs at
EnergySolutions Arena on Saturday, Kirilenko clarified his comments.

  "I just said, 'Maybe,'" he said. "It's not a fact. Just maybe. I hope
it's not. All we can do right now is just compete every game."

  Several of Kirilenko's teammates still discounted the idea that they have
reached their potential for this season and simply need more time to grow
into the kind of team that can seriously contend for a championship.

  "I don't believe that," forward Carlos Boozer said. "I don't need no more
time. I want to win right now. I hope the guys are on the same page. We didn't
get here by having that attitude, that 'Oh, we can't get good enough, fast
enough.' We have to havethe mentality that we can compete with this team.
We can run up and down with them, we can defend them, we can score against
them. And if we don't have that mentality, then we shouldn't be here in the
first place.

  "That's terrible," he added. "That's a terrible attitude, if you ask me.
I hope all the guys are on the same page as I am, that we can get better in
the next two days and have a great Game 3 and change the outlook of the series.
But we have to have that mentality first."

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