Deseret Morning News <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> EUGENE, Ore. ? His club sure looked resolute Thursday night, pushing the pace against the Portland Trail Blazers and appearing quite confident. Yet halfway through the preseason, Jerry Sloan has about as many decisions to make as he did before training camp opened. "Still," the Jazz coach said as Utah prepared to play Portland in a late-starting exhibition, "we have to decide who we'd want to start and who we'd want to have come off the bench." Not to mention who is going to make the opening-night roster, who will be waived and who, if anyone, might open the season in the NBA Development League. Another step toward gathering all the information needed to make those calls came Thursday night at historic McArthur Court on the University of Oregon campus, where the Jazz handily beat the Trail Blazers 92-73 in their fourth outing of a seven-game exhibition season. Sloan, though, did not know much after all was done than he did before it began. "It's still clouded a little bit," he said afterward. Some of those decisions, however, will come much easier than others.</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
