<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The most specialized task in baseball belongs to the closer, the pitcher assigned to secure the final three outs and nothing else. Keith McLeod has developed the opposite specialty for the Jazz: He is a starter, instructed to provide energy and precision at the beginning of each half - and nothing else. Through four games, the third-year guard has played more minutes than all but four of his teammates. Yet he has not so much as stepped on the floor during the second or fourth quarter of any game. It's an odd existence, sort of a human jumper cable: He gets the engine running, then lets the car go off without him. And once he sits down, he might as well kick off his shoes and break out the smoking jacket and pipe. His work is done. "I'm not questioning it. I'll play when Jerry wants me to play, and that's what he's decided will work," McLeod said with a shrug. "I ain't tripping or fussing about it." Neither is Sloan, who didn't set out to invent a new role for his point guard. It just developed as the coach tried to cope with a problem he has never faced before: juggling three point guards. </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
