For once, they looked like they really wanted to win a close one. For once, they actually did.
     
The Jazz beat Charlotte 104-100 Tuesday night at the Delta Center, dispelling, perhaps once and for all, the notion they are incapable of coming through when the going gets rough.
     
"It was really nice to come back," said Jazz star Karl Malone, who finished with a game-high 22 points despite missing his first six shots of the third quarter, including two layups and two short jumpers. "That's definitely one that we earned."
     
Utah, which has lost three games in overtime and three more by four or fewer points this season, had to rebound from an 11-point second-half deficit to snap a two-game losing streak and improve to 7-11. To do so, the Jazz used a 13-0 run at the start of the fourth quarter that brought them from 10 down to three up at 89-86.