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New York • Inside Madison Square Garden, one of the NBA's most vaunted arenas, new Jazz coach Quin Snyder took a moment to reflect as his team finished its morning shootaround Friday.

"I think anybody that's been in basketball long enough has significant Garden memories," he said. "It's a special place."

The Jazz have a host of memories here. And in recent times, they've all been bad.

"Every time we come here, we always get blasted," big man Enes Kanter said.

Last season, Carmelo Anthony dropped 29 on the Jazz, in a 108-81 rout. They year before it was 113-84 in favor of the Knicks.

You have to go back to November of 2009 for the Jazz's last victory in the Garden, but Kanter believes his squad can snap that streak.

"This time we can change it," he said. "With Coach Quin's mentality and this team's energy, it can change."

After opening this five-game road trip with a win over the Pistons, the Jazz have dropped two straight—and both times Utah let a fourth-quarter lead slip away.

"I felt like we played well enough in Atlanta to win," Snyder said. "We just didn't finish the game the way we needed to. Hopefully we'll be there in the end of all our games. Maybe we'll be out ahead and we don't have to be close at some point. But winning on the road is hard. I'm glad we got off to a good start with a win in Detroit, but now the reality is, especially as the road trip goes on, it gets harder."

Snyder believes the experiences will eventually help his team close out the kind of games it failed to win in Atlanta and Indiana.

"I don't think we were lacking in confidence," he said. "Some of it is the experience of being in a situation and all the nuances that are attributable to it. Plays get so much more physical at the end of a game. A play that maybe you've executed in practice really well, all of a sudden you're running it with someone on you more. You've got to screen harder. They're trying to hold a little bit more. There are all those things that go into a situation that you don't really understand until you experience them."

Tonight's game tips off at 5:30 p.m. and will be televised on ROOT Sports.

Both teams will be looking to snap losing streaks. The Jazz have dropped two straight, while the Knicks have lost six in a row under new coach and one-time Jazz man Derek Fisher.

Jazz rookie Rodney Hood will once again be kept out because of a right foot injury. The Knicks will be without guard Jose Calderon (strained right calf) and forward Andrea Bargnani (strained right hamstring).

— Aaron Falk