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Danté Exum will hear his name called tonight when the Utah Jazz's starting lineup is announced at EnergySolutions Arena. The rookie point guard will stand up from his spot on the bench, and then jog through a cloud of smoke and neon lights. After that, his coach wants him to run. One of the issues at the heart of Jazz coach Quin Snyder's surprise change to his starting lineup Thursday night in Milwaukee, interesting Exum for usual starter Trey Burke, is the coach's desire to pick up the pace. Right now, the Jazz are the third slowest team in the NBA, averaging 92.86 possessions per 48 minutes. Only the Heat and Knicks are slower. Ultimately, it doesn't matter as much to Snyder if the Jazz take more shots early in the clock as it does his players push the ball for the chance to get early shots, even if things eventually settle down into a half-court set. "I still want the ball to come up the court quickly, and if we get something then good," Snyder said recently. "The whole point of pace is if you shoot quickly the assumption is it's a good shot. … I don't mind if we don't shoot quick. I just want us to shoot a high-percentage shot." One of Snyder's concerns before this changing of the point guards was how the Jazz were dealing with their outlets. "Our outlets are too shallow," the coach said about a week prior to making the lineup change. "To get the ball pushed up the court quickly, the pass has to cover more ground. We've just got a habit of coming back to the ball—on makes especially, but on misses at times too." How long Exum will be the starter remains to be seen. "It probably won't be the starting lineup we'll have the rest of the year," Snyder said at his team's morning shootaround. Between injuries and a coach's tinkering, the Jazz have deployed a handful of different starting lineups this year. Saturday night against the Nets, with big man Derrick Favors' services available following a one-game absence, Snyder will roll out his 10th different starting five of the season. But Exum knows what is being asked of him if he's to keep the job. "The most important thing is getting the rebound and just getting that deep outlet," the rookie said when asked for the key to speeding up the Jazz's attack. "That's where it starts. I can build the pace from there. We can build an advantage from there." One game, a 101-99 win over the Bucks, is far too small a sample to know if Snyder will get the results he's seeking. But the coach and his players seemed to think they saw glints of that in Milwaukee. "I think Dante really pushed it pretty well," swingman Gordon Hayward said. "I think overall, we played pretty unselfish, which is good. I thought Trey did well when he wen in there too, though. Maybe it was just the little extra juice we needed or something like that."  Tipoff • 7:10 p.m. at EnergySolutions Arena TV • ROOT Sports Radio • 1280 AM, 97.5 FM  Probable Jazz starters • PG — Dante Exum SG — Joe Ingles SF — Gordon Hayward PF — Enes Kanter C — Derrick Favors  Probable Nets starters •  PG — Jarrett Jack SG — Bojan Bogdanovic SF — Joe Johnson PF — Kevin Garnett C — Mason Plumlee  Injury Report • Alec Burks (shoulder) and Rodney Hood (foot) are out for the Jazz. Deron Williams (fractured rib) and forward Mirza Teletovic (blood clots in lungs) are out for the Nets.  Who's Hot • Enes Kanter had 23 points and 16 rebounds against the Bucks, becoming the first Jazzman to notch back-to-back 20-point, 15-rebound games since his friend and mentor Al Jefferson did it in March 2011.  Who's Not • The Broolyn Nets have won just twice in their last 10 games and are coming off a 123-84 blowout loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.  The Spread • Jazz by 4.  Quotable • "I think it shows that's he's wanting to win more than necessarily selfish ambitions. It's not necessarily a demotion. It's just a change in when he comes onto the court. He can get more opportunities in the second unit and be more aggressive." — Gordon Hayward, on how point guard Trey Burke has handled his move to the bench  — Aaron Falk