Jazz rookies got over initial awe in a hurry

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Kirk Snyder's rookie moment came even before his first NBA preseason game got under way.
    "To be honest, I came out ? and I tripped . . . I tripped over the little wood piece before you make the entrance on the court," said Snyder, one of the Jazz's two 2004 first-round draft choices. "And I felt like a (fool) . . . I thought I forgot how to run."
    Kris Humphries' moment to remember came when Jazz coach Jerry Sloan called his name during Utah's Sunday night preseason win over Seattle, and Humphries took a little too long shedding his extra layers of clothes for Sloan's liking as he tried to get into the game.
    "We've got some new stuff," Sloan said to ref Zach Zarba, who cracked a wide grin as the grisly ol' Jazz coach watched 19-year-old Humphries wrestle with his warmups. "Can't get it off very fast."</div>

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