Bad start? Don't start badly.
   
It's a basketball palindrome, sort of, and a prescription for what ails the Jazz. But they haven't solved the puzzle -- and the results are reaching historic levels.
   
The Jazz's awful first month hit a new low Friday, when -- you will never guess -- a terrible first quarter preordained yet another loss, this time 86-75 to the Pistons in a decidedly unfriendly Palace of Auburn Hills. Utah dropped to 3-7 for the first time in John Stockton and Karl Malone's careers, a quandary the Mailman plans to use as motivation.