<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Jazz's game with Detroit was a little more than an hour away, but the visitors' locker room was empty. Utah's players were all on the Palace floor, stretching, shooting and warming up. It might not seem unusual, but it was. For the past several years, Andrei Kirilenko has spent most of the time before games in the locker room, quietly reading Russian paperbacks at his locker. But that will change, Kirilenko said. The six-year veteran, mired in a seasonlong slump that has most of his statistics at career-low levels, had a private meeting with coach Jerry Sloan and his coaching staff on Tuesday, and both sides resolved to try to find a way to restore Kirilenko's play to its former All-Star level. Starting with the pregame routine. "I just told him he needs to work on his game, work on his shooting, if he wants to get better," Sloan said. </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
