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Associated Press 12y

Gordon Hayward, Jazz hand Warriors 5th straight loss

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Gordon Hayward took the pass from Devin Harris, glanced up at the clock and decided not to wait.

With the game tied and time ticking down from 14.9 seconds,
Hayward showed the kind of aggressiveness that had been missing
this young season, sprinting up court and drawing a foul on Brandon Rush on a layup attempt between two defenders.

Music to the Jazz's ears.

Hayward made a go-ahead free throw with 11 seconds remaining to
cap a breakout game for the former Butler sensation, lifting the
Utah Jazz past the Golden State Warriors 88-87 on Saturday night
for their fourth straight victory.

"I think I got it, I looked at the clock and realized we were
tied, so I was going to push it and see what I could get," Hayward
said. "There's not much better of a look that you can get than a
fast-break layup. I just tried to push it and find something."

After a slow start this season, the lanky forward seemed to
finally find his rhythm.

Hayward finished with 18 points, six rebounds and four assists,
and Al Jefferson added 15 points and eight rebounds for a Jazz team
that relied on its defense with an off night shooting at just 39.5
percent. The Warriors shot 41.4 percent.

"When we got down, we didn't break at all," Jazz coach Tyrone
Corbin said. "The guys kept encouraging each other, 'Come on, man,
we right in there.'

"It was just great to be a part of."

Monta Ellis had 32 points and six assists before an all-advised
pass that led to Hayward's free throw and missed a running bank
shot at the buzzer to send Golden State to its fifth straight loss.
Stephen Curry and starting center Andris Biedrins sat out for the
second straight game with sprained right ankles for the Warriors.

In a season that started out with so much promise under the new
ownership's reconstruction, Golden State is suddenly 2-6 and in
last place in the Western Conference under rookie coach Mark
Jackson.

"The great teams think, 'What's going to happen now to win this
game?' " Jackson said. "The teams that have a history of losing
think, 'What's going to happen that's been happening that's going
to cause us to lose?'

"We've got to turn it and make things happen."

An otherwise strong defensive game turned into an offensive
outpouring late.

Golden State built a six-point lead in the fourth quarter with a
9-4 run to start the period capped by Brandon Rush's 3-pointer. A
series of turnovers and fouls put the Jazz in prime position to
pounce, taking an 81-79 lead on Hayward's free throws with 4:50
remaining in what became a back-and-forth finish.

After Ellis jumped in the air for a pass that was picked off by
Harris, Hayward received the ball and raced up court to draw a foul
on Rush at the rim. He made the first free throw to put Utah up
88-87, and the Warriors took over with 9.9 seconds to play after
rebounding Hayward's miss on the second.

Jackson called timeout and put the ball in Ellis' hands at half
court.

Defended by brief one-time Warriors teammate Raja Bell, Ellis
let the clock drain down and moved to his right, sending a shot
that banked off the glass, touched the back rim and missed. He was
16 for 17 from the free-throw line, the most he has ever made in
his career.

"It was a great shot, I'll take it any day," Ellis said. "I
just didn't knock it down. Move on from it."

Said Bell: "You play the percentages, you try to take his
right-hand drive away and hope that size will affect his shot and
make him lean back a little bit. He missed one. Really, I didn't
have a whole lot to do with it other than taking his angle away and
making him shoot a tough one."

The wounded Warriors shook up the home team's plans again.

Curry will be examined in Charlotte on Monday night by Dr. Bob
Anderson, who performed surgery on the point guard's troublesome
ankle May 25, while Biedrins is expected back sooner.

The Jazz exploited Golden State's weaknesses in a hurry.

Utah sliced through the paint past backup center Kwame Brown for
easy buckets almost at will, and the Warriors' undersized Nate Robinson-Ellis combo proved passive on defense.

The Jazz created endless passing lanes that led to several
uncontested shots, getting off to an 18-6 start highlighted by
Hayward's 3-pointer in the first quarter. The Warriors trimmed that
cushion to five early in the second quarter behind a pair of
3-pointers by Robinson, with the 5-foot-9 guard flicking three
fingers on both hands after each and waving his arms to the crowd.

After switching to a zone defense and pushing the tempo, a
dazzling display of acrobatic layups and fadeaway jumpers by
Ellis put Golden State in front for the first time in the final
minute of the half. He finished with 10 points in the period -- and
18 in the half -- to give the Warriors a 46-45 lead at the break.

Game notes
Jazz reserve F Jeremy Evans sat out with a stomach virus.
... Rookie Charles Jenkins started in Curry's place but played only
9:51, while Robinson logged 27:16 off the bench. ... Golden State's
crowd of 19,596 was its fourth sellout in five home games this
season.

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