<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">To the still-fresh humiliation of being throttled on national television, to the whispers about his team's toughness and the taunts about its failures, perhaps even to the persistent doubts and complaints that echo around the locker room, Matt Harpring probably spoke for everyone in a Jazz uniform on Friday: Just shut up! Harpring said it to Lee Nailon, the Hornets' nattering forward, and his outburst got him thrown out, along with Nailon, just three seconds before the Jazz broke their eight-game road losing streak by beating New Orleans, 98-87. But something in Harpring's demeanor, in the wake of his ferocious 28-point (and two-dunk, equally rare) night, hinted that his statement reasonably represented his and his remaining teammates' mood. In other words: You thought the Jazz might meekly roll over like they did in Minnesota two nights earlier? Shut up. You believed the wreckage of this disastrous season might sap Harpring's will to fight for a win? Shut up. And you were convinced, after the conference's worst team rallied from a 14-point deficit to retake the lead with 4:15 to go, that the Jazz would give away yet another possible victory in yet another ugly collapse? Just shut up! "We knew we were going to win the game - I actually felt that attitude on the court," Harpring insisted. "It just felt different tonight."</div> <div align="center">Link</div>
