"The Jazz started off on another road trip Monday night, desperately looking for — and getting — their first victory away from EnergySolutions Arena in triple overtime against the 1-6 Toronto Raptors. Thus far this season, they are 1-4 on the road, 3-0 at home. Some say consistently winning road games is the next step for an evolving Jazz team, but, in reality, it's a huge leap. There's nothing new about that this year. It's a road (trend) often traveled. The Jazz are a franchise seemingly destined to lose on the road. They began that way, and they remain that way. The original 1974-75 team, back then in New Orleans, lost its first 28 road games and didn't pick up its first road win until February. Last season, the Jazz went 11-22 away from home. The year before, they won 17 roadies and lost 24. Since 2000-01, when the Jazz won 25 games on the road and lost 16, they've had one season in which they've won more road games than they've lost. That was in 2009-10, when their record was 21-20. The other seasons, in chronological order, went this way: 19-22, 18-23, 14-27, 8-33, 19-22, 20-21, 17-24, 15-26. During the Jazz's best seasons in the mid-to-late-1990s, they managed to break the road curse. In 1997-98, they won 26 road games and lost 15. In 1994-95, the Jazz went completely out of character, winning 15 straight on the road. But those stick out as exceptions. Clear back in 1992, Jerry Sloan was bemoaning the fact that the Jazz couldn't take an acceptable number of road victories: "We need to be able to win on the road," he said at the All-Star break, when the Jazz were 11-16. "We've let a number of games slip away already. We can't do that to have any kind of realistic chance to win …"" Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/55260685-87/road-jazz-games-win.html.csp
