Before Monday's game, Donyell Marshall downplayed matters. Jamal Crawford replayed them?over and over again.

Marshall said that playing Utah?the team that didn't re-sign him last summer?meant nothing. Crawford kept thinking about his seven-turnover game from Saturday.

But when the game-turning run in the Bulls' 113-98 victory came down, guess which two players were in the thick of things?

Crawford and Marshall combined to score 13 points and tally three steals in a 19-2, third-quarter run that turned a 66-60 nail-biter into an 85-62 cushion before an appreciative crowd of 17,663.