Remember when Jazz fans were in a hand-wringing uproar because the team failed in its top offseason priority -- to sign Donyell Marshall?
   
Turns out they succeeded after all, sort of.
   
Matt Harpring doesn't know Marshall, has never spoken to him, doesn't even play the same position. But the fifth-year guard/forward, his Jazz career unwillingly but inevitably linked to the power forward since the day the Jazz essentially gave him the contract Marshall turned down, has virtually duplicated the Utah production of the departed free agent.
   
Marshall, who visits the Delta Center with his Bulls teammates tonight (7 p.m.), averaged 14.1 points and 7.3 rebounds in two seasons with the Jazz. Harpring, who accepted a four-year contract when the Jazz concluded they couldn't re-sign Marshall for the amount they wanted to spend, is averaging 15.2 points and 6.5 rebounds.
   
"He's a different kind of player than Donyell," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan. "Donyell did a good job for us, and Matt's doing a good job, too. He runs the floor and gives us activity. He kind of keeps our engines running a little bit."