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Quin Snyder gets peppered with questions after every loss — even after he leaves the arena.

"My 2-year-old still likes me," the Jazz coach quipped at shootaround Friday morning. "But my 4-year-old watches the games and she wants to know why we lost."

So following nine straight defeats, any win is a good win. And a badly needed victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday seems to have provided a temporary morale boost around the young locker room.

"I think it really helped. … A team like San Antonio, we beat them, especially on our floor with the fans behind us, it pumped us up," Enes Kanter said.

"I'd like for us to be the same win or lose," Snyder said. "Just to keep focus on the fundamental things that I think are important to us having long-term success. But the reality is that when you get a good win, everybody's spirits go up a little bit. Hopefully that will serve as a catalyst and not some sort of satisfaction."

Right now, consistency is the challenge for the rebuilding Jazz.

"Doing something once or twice is good," Snyder said this week. "But it doesn't mean you've got it. The team we played the other night, they do it right almost every time. And if you don't, then they get an edge. And if you don't again, they get another little edge. And then pretty soon … they're looking in the rear view mirror at you."

Forward Gordon Hayward believes he and his teammates are making progress.

"There were good things we took from each and every game" during the losing streak, he said. "We did things right for a lot of the game and then we'd have a bad quarter or a bad six minutes and it would turn into a 17-2 run and we just couldn't get out of that hole. I thought we were getting better each game; we just weren't getting the results we wanted. Whether or not we would have won or lost a giant the Spurs, we played a lot better and improved in that game, too."

After the Jazz snapped their losing skid with a win over the Spurs, Kanter was asked if the victory might have been more satisfying since it came against last year's winners.

"Oh yeah, so we're the world champs now, right?" Kanter cracked.

Sitting at 6-16 heading into tonight's matchup with last year's runners up, the Miami Heat, Kanter and the Jazz know they have miles still to go.

— Aaron Falk