The plan was in place.
     
Marksman Jeff Hornacek would some day retire, and when he did Shandon Anderson would neatly slip in, assuming the role of starting shooting guard on a team that traditionally depended so greatly on quality play from that position.
     
One hitch:
     
Anderson never did re-sign with Utah like the Jazz fully expected in the summer of 1999, bolting instead for less money but supposedly more happiness in Houston.
     
"We were in place to try to take care of the Hornacek thing," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan says now. "We had kind of made plans that Shandon would come in and do that. But it didn't work out.
     
"All of a sudden you get a wrench thrown in the motor, it screws things up a little bit."