SEATTLE ? Even before starting the new NBA season, the Jazz warned not to put too much stock in the results of their brutal early schedule.
     Win, or lose.
     "Whether we go 5-0 or 0-5," Malone said prior to last Tuesday's opener against Milwaukee, "I don't think that really tells us what kind of team we have.
     "I realize that the first four or five games count, because that's part of our record, but I don't really get too uptight or excited, one way or the other, because it is a long season," he added then. "No, you don't want to lose them. But I don't think it will tell what kind of team we have, either."