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Toronto • After feigning some defense and tossing up a few lobs in Friday night's Rising Stars game, Jazz point guard Raul Neto was ready for the all-star break to really begin.

The point guard played a total of 760 minutes over 34 league games last season in Spain. In his first NBA campaign, Neto has already logged 50 games and 1,000 minutes on the court — and his body is feeling it.

"I think last year I did the cold tub maybe twice and here I do it almost every day," Neto said.

Jazz coach Quin Snyder thought his point guard hit a rookie wall a couple of weeks ago, and he let Neto know it during the team's shootaround before playing the Chicago Bulls.

"I don't think there's any way around it," Snyder said this week of Neto's fatigue. "I've acknowledged it, basically said it's not acceptable. It's one thing to feel it and understand it and then you've just got to fight through it and don't let it become an excuse for you."

Neto, for his part, appreciated the coach's sentiment.

"I think he was right," Neto said. "I could give more to the team at this point."

Filling the net

Jazz rookie Trey Lyles experienced his rite of passage as a Canadian athlete before that meant dapping Drake court side. In his first competitive games as a young boy, Lyles skated onto the ice, put on his mask and settled in between the pipes.

"He was pretty darn good," his father, Tom Lyles, confirmed.

Lyles was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and didn't pick up a basketball until he moved to Indiana at age 7. If he had stayed in Canada, his life might have been a little different. "I was a hockey player growing up, so I probably would have went down a different path, I think," he said.

There aren't many 6-foot-10 goalies out there but, Lyles joked, "I'd fill up the net."

Shot at redemption?

Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon dazzled during this weekend's slam dunk contest, offering up a trio of dunks never seen before in the contest.

In one attempt, he vaulted over a mascot, grabbed the ball from atop its head, the Gordon brought the ball under both his legs before slamming it in. And somehow he only finished second, thanks to a series of spectacular free-throw line dunks from Minnesota's Zach LaVine, who was named the contest's back-to-back champion.

Gordon, however, could be looking to avenge his loss next year.

"I kind of did a lot of dunks there, man. I don't know how many more I've got," he said. "[But] I've got a year, yeah. In Charlotte, yeah, if they want me to come back, I probably will. I've got a year to get my dunks ready."