The storyline should be Steve Francis' game-winning 3-pointer with 0.1 seconds to go.

It might have been John Stockton dishing his 15,000th career assist, which went to Bryon Russell for a key trey with about 30 seconds remaining.
     
Or, if things had gone right for the Jazz, it could even have been the way they were down by nine in the fourth quarter, and by as many as 14 in the first half, before clawing back.
     
Instead, it is how a late-game technical called by referee Dan Crawford on Karl Malone had the Jazz in a tizzy following their 95-92 loss to the Houston Rockets on Sunday afternoon at the Compaq Center.
     
"It seems like everything was against us tonight," Russell said. "Kelvin Cato took Karl's head off ? there wasn't no call on that. So what are we supposed to do? I don't know how to play against eight people."
     
Setting up the tech: With 1:08 to go and the game tied at 87, Malone missed a layup, credited as a block to Houston's Kelvin Cato. Rockets teammate Cuttino Mobley grabbed the loose ball, leading to Kenny Thomas' running jumper on the other end. The 34-28 Jazz came right back, with Stockton, already far-and-away the NBA's all-time assists leader, penetrating deep before kicking the ball out to Russell for No. 15,000, a left-side 3 that made it 90-89 Utah with 34.8 seconds left.
     
Going into an ensuing timeout, Malone complained to Crawford.
     
"If (the ball) was my (bleeping) head," Malone said later, "it's a blocked shot."
     
Crawford, who would not comment on what the refs deemed a judgment call, responded by hitting Malone with a tech that sent Mobley to the line for a free throw that tied it at 90.