On a day like Saturday during the regular season ? second half of a back-to-back set, both games on the road ? the Jazz normally would sneak in a few extra winks, gather a little later in the morning and chow down on a catered breakfast before breaking down their evening opponent.
     
But not this weekend.
     
Not in the NBA preseason, with a four-game exhibition losing streak the main thing on their collective mind throughout the Friday night flight from Cleveland to Philadelphia.
     
Not when a bagel, bacon and eggs take a back seat to execution, shot selection and something as rudimentary as running the floor.
     
"Those guys don't need to eat at this time of the year," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan cracked Saturday night, at the end of a long day that began with a morning shootaround at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
     
The a.m. dose of don't-do-this, do-do-that seemed to do the Jazz some good Saturday at First Union Center, as Utah beat Philadelphia 107-99 to improve to 2-4 in the exhibition season.
     
The Jazz not only won, but they did it in a style as sound as one might normally expect for the preseason: 51.6 percent shooting on 32-of-62 from the field, 3-of-4 from 3-point range and a mere 15 turnovers, which is down nine from the 24 they committed in a 95-91 loss to the Cavaliers one night earlier.