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The last thing you'll hear Kyle Korver complain about is still living out of a five-diamond hotel 2 1/2 weeks after the trade that brought him to Utah. There's never a bed to make and there's always a chocolate waiting on the pillow when he returns at night.
He was able to get a shipment of clothes from his old home in Philadelphia and plans on retrieving most of his things during next month's All-Star break.
What's most eased Korver's transition, in the meantime, has been the Jazz's play since his arrival.
The Jazz are 6-1 with Korver in the lineup and are riding a four-game winning streak, their second-longest this season. The question is just how much of the Jazz's success can be attributed to the trade and how much simply to a favorable schedule.
"I don't want people to give me too much credit,'' Korver said. "This team would have won a lot of games even if I wouldn't have been here just because of the scheduling. But I'd like to think I've helped a little bit."
One of the amusing things to Korver is that he's been fielding questions about what it's like for the Jazz to have recaptured their confidence after a 5-11 December.
"For me, my confidence has never been low on this team,'' Korver said. "I feel like we're not going to lose a game. We're 6-1 or whatever since I've been here, so for me, I've never had that down moment, those doubts."
Before Korver's arrival, the Jazz endured a month filled with road losses and fourth-quarter collapses. They watched coach Jerry Sloan send home guard Gordan Giricek from their pre-Christmas trip and the team fell out of playoff position in the Western Conference.
If nothing else, the Korver trade helped shake the Jazz out of their malaise. So far, Korver has fit in well, with Carlos Boozer describing him as a good guy, a down-to-earth person and smart player. In Boozer's opinion, the trade might have been a necessary change.
"I think some of us wanted something to happen,'' Boozer said. "I don't think it's one of those things where we necessarily needed it, but it felt good after it happened. It was one of those things where the team, it felt like it was the right move for us."
Even though Korver has struggled with his shooting, the Jazz have averaged 106.6 points in the seven games since the trade. His arrival also created a competition for minutes between five players, in particular Korver, Ronnie Brewer and C.J. Miles.
In making the trade, Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor said owner Larry Miller "sent a message not only to the team but hopefully to the fans that we're serious about trying to compete this year as well as continuing to build."
The Jazz swapped Giricek's expiring contract plus a future first-round pick for Korver, who is signed through the 2009-10 season. But the Jazz like how Korver, 26, fits in on a team of similarly aged players and believe his long-term future is in Utah.
The consensus at Tuesday's practice seemed to be that the Jazz's success was due as much to the schedule as the trade. All six of their recent victories have come at EnergySolutions Arena, where the Jazz are 16-3 this season.
Forward Matt Harpring pointed to the schedule in saying, "Having as many home games as we have lately has really helped us come together and get that chemistry and get everything going again."
Sloan also suggested that the schedule was the key factor. "I think the guys seem to have accepted [Korver] pretty well,'' Sloan said. "But I think we've done a little better job of being at home and have a chance to recover."
Then again, consider that Philadelphia has gone 2-8 since the trade. Korver, meanwhile, said he finally was able to "settle down" in Monday's victory over Milwaukee, hitting three second-quarter jumpers and defending Michael Redd in the fourth quarter.
"When you know where your shot's coming from and you know where it's going to be,'' Korver said, "you're able to focus on the shot more so than just getting to the spot. I felt like last night was the first time that I felt a lot more confident in that."