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Nobody has missed more free throws this year than DeAndre Jordan.

The Los Angeles Clippers center entered Saturday night's matchup with the Jazz having attempted 233 freebies, third most in the NBA — a number inflated largely by his abysmal 39 percent success rate from the stripe.

With some frequency, teams have deployed a Hack-A-Shaq strategy against Jordan, intentionally fouling him in hopes of limiting what has otherwise been one of the league's most potent offenses.

And while Jazz coach Quin Snyder said he doesn't have an opinion as to whether the strategy is good or bad for basketball, it's not one he seems inclined to use much now.

The Jazz did intentionally foul Golden State's Andrew Bogut on one possession last week, but went away from it after the career 56-percent free throw shooter made both shots.

"We don't really dabble in it," Snyder said. "We did it once the other night with Bogut. Probably if you commit to it, you should believe in the odds and stay with it."

But, more importantly, Snyder believes using the strategy won't benefit his young team in the long run.

"To me, the importance right now is still learning to defend," he said. "I think it's great for a team like San Antonio, who is familiar with it and has done it. It's a learning process for us. I wouldn't say we'd never do it, but I think the goal for us is to become better."

He added, "If we're better at fouling people in those situations in March than we are now, I'm not sure what that really does for us. I'd prefer to be better at pick-and-roll defense."

By the numbers

A robotic voice kept spitting out numbers at the end of the Jazz's shootaround on Saturday morning.

"Forty-three. … Forty-seven. … Forty-four."

"Forty-five is the perfect number," Gordon Hayward said.

The Jazz forward wanted a little more arc on his jump shot, so he trained last summer with a basketball shooting system (the Noah Basketball Training System) that measures arc and instantly calls out a number.

It's a machine the Jazz have recently added to their repertoire.

"We're always trying ways to get better," Snyder said.

It seems to have worked for Hayward, who has been on a recent hot streak, especially from beyond the 3-point line.

Early returns

Jazz forwards Hayward and Derrick Favors have had nice starts to the season, but they were not among the top All-Star vote-getters in the first round of returns released this week.

Lakers veteran Kobe Bryant has a substantial lead over all players with more than 719,000 votes and appears to be well on his way to securing an 18th All-Star bid. Golden State guard Stephen Curry received the most votes among the league's guards with 510,000.

Former Jazz center Enes Kanter ranks 13th among Western Conference big men, having received 47,806 votes. afalk@sltrib.com

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