Minutes after the Jazz had collected their ninth win in 11 games, this time a 16-point clubbing of the Miami Heat, Jerry Sloan paused to ruminate over his team's blessed, though imperfect, current condition and then acknowledged a fact that most would have considered fiction 35 games ago.
   
"We're a pretty good team," he said. "I said that from the beginning."
   
Pretty good, on the Official Stingy Sliding Modified Stableford/Sloan Scoring System Scale of Compliment Interpretation, checks in at the common man's darn near great level.
   
By any measure, Sloan's was a solitary voice.
   
Not anymore.