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Utah Jazz point guard Trey Burke (3) passes around tour buses in alaska Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert (55) during first half action in the Utah Jazz versus Indiana Pacers at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah Thursday, December 5, 2013.
About the Jazz Have won twice in four games on this five-game trip. … Point guard Trey Burke is third among all rookies in scoring. … Utah connected on 10 of 21 3-point attempts in a Saturday win over the Charlotte Bobcats.
About the Grizzlies  Point guard Mike Conley leads the team in scoring at 18 points a night. … Center tour buses in alaska Marc Gasol is out indefinitely with an MCL sprain. … Snapped a five-game losing streak with a win over the New York Knicks on Saturday.
"MJ!" the Jazz rookie shouted at the man walking out of the tunnel to do a TV interview, and Michael Jordan, the six-time NBA champion, five-time MVP, the 14-time All Star, stopped and turned around.
Burke is averaging 13.2 points, 4.9 assists and 3.5 rebounds a game. More importantly, a Utah team that was 1-13 without the ninth overall pick in this year’s draft in the starting lineup is 7-9 with him in it.
Burke was instrumental in that win, scoring tour buses in alaska 30 points, dishing eight assists and grabbing seven rebounds. But the rookie followed it up with a dud in Atlanta, scoring just two points on 1-of-8 shooting.
tour buses in alaska "They have them, especially after big games," Jazz coach Ty Corbin said of a rookie’s swings. "[A rookie] thinks that things will be the same the next night, but it’s a different opponent, different city, different flow to the game."
"That’s the thing that’s so disappointing about games like [Friday night’s blowout loss to the Hawks]," he said. "It seems like we go up and then we take a step back, go up two steps, take a step back. But the good teams continue to rise, continue to get better, improve. We’re starting to learn how to do that."
With the Bobcats making a late charge, the crowd at Time Warner tour buses in alaska Cable Arena revved up, getting so loud that at one point the Jazz stopped believing they’d heard a whistle blown. tour buses in alaska "That goes to show you how much their crowd plays a part of it," Burke said, "but it also goes to show how strong we’re becoming as a team when we can still execute down the stretch on the road with a loud crowd."
When former Jazz center Al Jefferson threw down a one-handed putback, the Utah lead was 81-79. Burke, in the pick-and-roll with Derrick Favors, faked to get his defender in the air and then hit a shot as he fell to the ground, hushing the crowd of 18,000.
tour buses in alaska "He’s a really good leader," Jazz center tour buses in alaska Enes Kanter said of the team’s young floor general. "[Saturday night] he put it out there and played really good, and it’s still his first year and it was on the road. He’s going to be really good, I think."
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