Maybe the instructions got garbled. The Jazz were just supposed to head south to open the season. Instead, their season is heading south right from the opener.
   
The same can't-play-hard-for-48-minutes virus that infected Utah a year ago and plunged the Jazz to the muddled middle of NBA noncontenders already has been diagnosed on the 2002-03 squad. The Jazz watched as the good-but-not-this-good Hawks scored virtually at will Thursday night, racing to a 105-98 victory behind Glenn Robinson's 30 points.
   
The dispiriting loss in a gallingly empty Philips Arena, which came one night after Utah was routed in New Orleans, dropped the Jazz to 0-2 and left them to face some blunt assessments of their problems.