Jazz take on Spurs tonight

The Jazz are in San Antonio tonight to face a Spurs team that can be tough when they're focused, and very beatable when they're not.

After letting an 18-point lead slip away at home in a loss to Seattle on Sunday, the Spurs were embarrassed by the Nuggets in Denver two nights later. Less than 24 hours after that loss, the Spurs had rematch with the Nuggets in San Antonio and in between games, coach Gregg Popovich ordered an early morning practice to get his players" attention, giving his team about five hours of sleep.

"We deserved it," Spurs center David Robinson said. "We've been kind of slack at the end of games.

"We had a minor crisis on our hands."

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Nuggets' loss 'brutal'

After a three point first quarter the Nuggets couldn't recover, and lost to the Spurs 99-68.

Somebody close-line Stephen Jackson for shooting 3's at will in an already ugly game.

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As bad as it gets

And you thought the Chicago Bulls had things rough!

The Denver Nuggets set a new record for futility on Wednesday night when they scored just three points against the San Antonio Spurs, missing 14 straight shots after taking a 2-0 lead to start the game.

"It was crazy. It was a brutal first quarter,'' Denver's Juwan Howard said. "We couldn't score, we couldn't hit shots. We turned the ball over and we didn't do anything to help ourselves. Before the game, we repeatedly said let's start out fresh. Obviously, it didn't happen. You know, we just got blown out.''

"Not much you can say,'' Denver coach Jeff Bzdelik said. "We didn't make a lot of shots down the stretch and they really played great defensively. We just couldn't rebound from that intensity.''

The Spurs won the game 99-68.

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