"It's obviously been tough the last month or so with everyone being hurt," Korver said, "but I think we're getting back to the point now where guys are getting healthy, we can start getting some rhythm back and show the kind of team we really can be."

Korver sat out four games in the hope that rest would allow the wrist to heal. The injury is to his shooting hand and has bothered Korver since the start of the season, though he said he was surprised by how good it felt taking jumpers Friday.

"It's getting pretty close," said Korver, who finished with 12 points on 4-for-10 shooting. "I wouldn't say it's 100 percent yet, but I think to wait until it's 100 percent, I'd have to wait quite a while."

He aggravated the injury falling in a game last week but had a better plan this time: "If you go down, try to roll to the left and see what happens."

Update trio

Carlos Boozer missed his fifth game with a strained left quadriceps tendon. He did some walking at the pregame shootaround "trying to see how comfortable it is" as well as some slides to gauge how his knee was bending.

"I'm getting there," Boozer said. "I'm hoping that maybe next week, maybe a little bit after that, I'll be back out there."

Brevin Knight (sprained left index finger) missed Friday's game as well, but could play tonight if treatment goes well. Matt Harpring, meanwhile, described himself as "back to square one" with his sore back.

Home team

Thinking back 20 years, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan couldn't remember the last time his team played a back-to-back set of home games. It has happened before, but not since Feb. 13-14, 2001, when the Jazz lost to San Antonio and beat New York.

But with the Jazz playing consecutive home games this weekend, Sloan planned to keep the same routine and not schedule a shootaround before tonight's game against New Jersey. "I'll treat it just like I would if I was on the road," Sloan said.

Agent-free

With his agent, Jason Levien, leaving to join Sacramento as an assistant general manager, Kyrylo Fesenko said he was leaning toward staying with Levien's associate Stu Lash. He also wasn't surprised to see Levien making the leap to join a team's front office.

The rank and file

Friday's win gives Sloan 1,100 victories in his 23 seasons as an NBA coach with Chicago and Utah. Only Lenny Wilkens (1,332), Don Nelson (1,285) and Pat Riley (1,195) have won 1,100 games.

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