A couple of cold starts and one very hot scorer conspired Friday night to do in the Jazz, who looked less than lukewarm in their first game back after a five-day break.
     
Part of the problem was that they got down by 8 to start. Part was that they were outscored 12-4 to open the third quarter. But the biggest part was played by one Wally Szczerbiak, who scored a career-high 37 points in Minnesota's 93-86 victory over Utah.
     
In Wally's World, it did not matter that the Jazz came in riding a four-game winning streak and nearly a full week's worth of rest.
     
That was enough to tilt the orb of Jerry Sloan, who couldn't believe what he saw from a team idle since beating Philadelphia last Saturday night.
     
"You know, he's a good player. He can shoot out on the 3-point line, he can put it on the floor. He worked off of screens well," Sloan said of Szczerbiak, who scored 26 of his points in the second half, including 16 in the fourth quarter. "They saw that we couldn't get over screens, we couldn't fight screens, and they just screened us like we were a piece of butter out there. We just melted and fell right to the floor, and he came along and he was wide open."