The answer? None of them. At least not when it came to stopping Portland's Martell Webster as he led the Trail Blazers to a 103-89 win over the Jazz in the Rose Garden.

Webster's teammate, Brandon Roy, was the one who entered Saturday's contest with a sore fanny after bruising his tailbone during a fall in Portland's win over Chicago on Thursday, but Utah's rear ends had to hurt more at the end of the night after the good old-fashioned whipping Webster gave the Jazz. Webster took it upon himself to eliminate Utah's potential candidates in the hunt for more minutes with a third-quarter scoring spree that saw him crank out 24 of his 26 total points.

"I've been around a long time and I don't know if I've ever seen anybody get that open coming off the baseline," Sloan said. "I mean, that guy was terrific. We tried to zone him and he kicked our butts with that, we didn't have much of an answer for him."

Webster, who shot 7-for-9 in the quarter, scored two more points than the entire Jazz team did in the third, unless you want to give the Jazz style points for acting as his props.

"It was one of those nights I was hot," Webster said. "I felt every time I touched the ball and shot, it was going to go in.

"I guess they have been bullying us my entire career," Webster said of the Jazz. "I just wanted to come out here and set an example just to let them know we're not going to back down."

The first player Webster picked on was C.J. Miles, who was probably enjoying his second start of the season until Webster went all crazy-like early in the third and scored four baskets in row on Miles, the last of which was a three-pointer.

"I don't know what his first one was, but after that he got hot and they just started setting all their screens for him," Miles said. "After that, it was basically chasing him for 24 seconds every trip down. He'd catch it and if I was there he'd throw it back and the bigs would run more screens until he got a good look or he'd force one and he made the ones he forced, too."

Miles got yanked after Webster made another three-pointer, cutting Utah's lead to 59-55 with 7:08 left in the third.

Enter newly acquired Kyle Korver, who greeted Webster by fouling him on a three-point shot.

Webster made all three free throws, giving the Blazers a 62-61 lead, an advantage they'd build upon the rest of the game.

Next guard Ronnie Brewer stepped into Webster territory and the third-year player merely shot over Brewer.

After another three-pointer by Webster, Sloan took out Brewer and inserted little used Ronnie Price. He probably would have preferred to stay on the bench rather than be the next player scorched by the Blazer.

Predictably, he couldn't get the job done either. Webster got to the line, made more free throws and gave the Blazers a 75-64 lead after three quarters. Sloan didn't even bother looking down the bench. He knew he was out of options just as the Jazz knew they were doomed for yet another road loss.

"I thought he'd go up and get on him a little more and slow him down a little bit and he did a fairly decent job," Sloan said of Price. "I thought when we started the fourth quarter we might have a little run in us but they never could sustain anything. They were playing the game with a great deal of passion and excitement and it was a real bear's den to be involved in."

The Jazz were led by Deron Williams' 23 points while Mehmet Okur had 15. Carlos Boozer had one of his worst shooting nights of the season, going 3-for-16 for just six points.

LaMarcus Aldridge added 20 points for the Blazers while Roy, the team's leading scorer, finished with just four points in nine minutes, not that he was missed with Webster carrying the show.

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