<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Go ahead, try to sum up in one word the emotion surrounding the 2005-06 Utah Jazz as summer beckons. Last season, it would have been despair. The season before? Hope. There are a lot of candidates this year, but after a closing six weeks that little resembled the four months that preceded them, the winner inside the locker room and throughout the front office might be: Relief. The small sample size leaves much of the Jazz's future to the imagination, but April's surge left some oh-thank-heavens lasting impressions. To wit: Deron Williams wasn't a horrible mistake. Carlos Boozer isn't a malingering swindler. And the four anchors of Utah's future - Williams, Boozer, Mehmet Okur and Andrei Kirilenko - might just be a stable, synergistic combination worthy of owner Larry Miller's $200 million-plus investment after all. Whew. I'm sure there's some of that," agreed Boozer, whose yearlong battle with foot and hamstring injuries, not to mention a central role in persistent trade rumors, probably created more angst than the other factors combined. "I don't know if there were any doubts, but we showed we can work together and win. Now that we know that, we'll just keep improving." </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
