Bryon Russell was not making any shots, and the Jazz were not winning any games.
 
Things changed Monday night at the Delta Center.
 
Russell scored a team-high 20 points on 5-for-9 shooting, and five teammates also reached double figures as Utah snapped a three-game losing streak with a grind-it-out 101-89 victory over the unhappy Miami Heat.
 
Russell had missed 38 of 45 field-goal attempts in the previous six games. He had gone 1-for-12 from the three-point line.
 
Against Miami, however, Russell seemed comfortable and confident. Most significantly, he drilled two three-pointers during a 13-0 run in the second quarter that launched the Jazz toward their first wire-to-wire win of the season.
 
No, the Heat never led. And after only their second loss in nine games, coach Pat Riley offered a possible reason.
 
"We get accused of being sort of a push-and-shove team," he said. "But that's ridiculous. . . . The referees don't let you guard them. They don't let you play them. It's a ridiculous thing."