<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Jerry Sloan just wants his team back. The Jazz coach, his 11-13 club saddled by injuries throughout the season, suggested as much while savoring Utah's 88-80 win over the Bucks on Saturday night in Milwaukee. "We've struggled all year long," Sloan said, "and anything we can come up with we're pleased to try to get it ? because we need to try to hang in there as much as we can until we get our team together and try to get everyone back. "If we ever do," he added. "Maybe we never will." The Jazz played Milwaukee on Saturday without forward Matt Harpring, whose surgically repaired right knee has kept him out of four games this season. They played the second half without forward Andrei Kirilenko, who missed seven games in November because of a sprained ankle ? and could not continue Saturday because of spasms that caused his lower back to lock up. Point guard Keith McLeod dressed, but did not play ? his back still a bit stiff because of an avulsion fracture that kept him out of 13 games until recently. Other assorted injuries and illnesses have cost Gordan Giricek, Greg Ostertag, Robert Whaley and Deron Williams a combined 14 games. Sloan's real reference, though, may have been to power forward Carlos Boozer ? who has been out all season with a strained left hamstring, and who because of injuries has not played since last Feb. 14. Boozer is not traveling with the team on its current five-game trip, which conveniently allows him to miss the stop in Cleveland ? which he left under controversial circumstances to join the Jazz as a free agent in 2004 ? for a second time in as many seasons.</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
