Opening a five-game road trip that covers four states and three different regions, the Jazz darn near completed a Texas-sized comeback Saturday night.
     
Instead, San Antonio booted Utah from the Alamodome, beating the Jazz 100-80 in a game that featured more big runs than Grandma's nylons.

Up by 28 points late in the second quarter, the 17-4 Spurs seemed to start thinking they could cruise to a seventh straight victory. But the Jazz trimmed San Antonio's advantage to 5, with a chance to make it 3, before finally succumbing to the ills that put them in such a huge hole.
     
"We got back to what we started off the ballgame with: one pass and a shot," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "They're a great team, tough to play against, because they're so good defensively. We never made them play any defense."
     
The result: San Antonio's lead shot right back up, all the way to 29.
     
"The attitude of 'trying to get something done' was what got us back in it," Jazz point guard John Stockton said, "and you'd like to have perfect control over it. But we didn't."