<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Carlos Boozer?s hamstring is healthy. Matt Harpring didn?t require any knee surgery over the summer. And Andrei Kirilenko is still lean but slightly more sturdy as the Utah Jazz enter training camp. Even coach Jerry Sloan is a little optimistic that the Jazz can return to the playoffs for the first time since 2003. ?This team can do it if they want to put the work into it,? Sloan said Monday at the Jazz media day. The Jazz met with reporters, posed for some team pictures, then were headed to Boise, Idaho, for training camp. Utah has a healthy lineup, which now includes veteran guard Derek Fisher and a group of young players that have already impressed Sloan, who is entering his 19th season coaching the Jazz. Utah went 41-41 last season, missing out on the playoffs for a third straight year after never quite recovering from a succession of injuries. The Jazz didn?t have the talent or experience. ?We can sustain an injury, whereas a year ago we couldn?t sustain an injury because we weren?t deep enough. We had guys who could go on the roster, but didn?t have experience,? said Sloan, a widower who remarried last month. ?We still have guys that don?t have great experience, but I think they have a little more athletic ability in some cases that can hold us in there and keep us competing.? </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
