They play just two games, both at home, where they have the NBA's best record this season at 31-4, and both against teams — Charlotte, whom they beat on Tuesday night, and the Los Angeles Clippers, whom they face Friday night — that will not be taking part in this season's NBA playoffs.
It may not be the Jazz's easiest week of the season, but it has to rank right up there.
Consider:
• The Jazz's first two-game week of the season came in the latter half of November, and it included a meeting with playoff-bound New Orleans;
• Their second two-game week this season came in the latter half of January, and it involved a road game in L.A. against the Clippers;
• Their only one-game week of the season was that preceding the mid-February NBA All-Star Game, which besides a road game in Seattle also involved a trip to New Orleans for All-Star Carlos Boozer, skills contest entrant Deron Williams and rookie-sophomore game participants Ronnie Brewer and Paul Millsap.
The relative slowdown, Williams suggested, is a good thing.
"Rest is real crucial coming down this far into the season and going on to the playoffs," he said after the Jazz completed their 72nd game of the regular season, Tuesday's 128-106 win over the Bobcats. "We're gonna need that energy that last six games or so."
Center Mehmet Okur, however, isn't taking anything for granted.
That's why he answered "we'll see" when asked Tuesday if it's a good thing that the Jazz do not play again until Friday.
"Hopefully it's good," he said, "because (it's the) end of the season. We need some rest right now."
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan — who did not practice his team Wednesday but will today — has been mindful of just that.
"We have been giving the players days off," he said, "in order to try to regroup and hopefully have fresh legs and be ready to try to finish this thing off the best we can and be as good as we can be."
HE SAID IT: Williams, on the Jazz's next two games, including Sunday's visit to draft lottery-bound Minnesota: "We definitely have got to take care of the business. We can't have any slipups. ... We just have to stay focused, and, you know, we just have to make sure we have that same energy that we do for when we're playing Boston and San Antonio and people like that when we're playing these other teams."
MISC.: With their win over Charlotte, the Jazz have beaten every team in the NBA this season. ... With his 15 assists against the Bobcats, Williams moved past Pistol Pete Maravich and into fifth place on the Jazz's all-time assists list with 1,852. John Stockton leads with an NBA-high 15,806, followed by Karl Malone (5,085), Rickey Green (4,159) and Jeff Hornacek (1,895). Previously this season, Williams passed Thurl Bailey, Rich Kelly, Howard Eisley, Darrell Griffith and Adrian Dantley on the top-10 list. ... Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko needs two more double-doubles to pass Dantley for 10th place on the all-time franchise leaders list in that stat category with 70. Three current teammates already rank in the top 10: Boozer is third with 134, Okur (96) is eighth and Williams (80) is ninth. Malone leads with 799, followed by Stockton at 714. Mark Eaton (124) rounds out the top five.
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