Utah Jazz: Korver finally finds his touch
That miss — in what had been a one-point night so far for Korver — had him muttering to himself.
"I knew it was a little flat when I shot it, and I was running back down the floor (saying), 'I shot it a little flat,'" Korver said.
Thirty-one seconds later, after Andrei Kirilenko had made a driving layup to stop the bleeding, Korver was back in that same right-wing corner when Deron Williams found him and gave him another chance.
"The next time I got it, I saw it all the way," Korver recalled. "I saw my man drifting off, got my feet set and said, 'Put a little more arch on it this time,' and was able to get one — and got a couple more open looks, too."
That 3-pointer gave the Jazz eight points of daylight, and that kind of a basket makes a guy like shooting specialist Korver think, "All right, now I'm going. Let's get another one," he said.
Thirty-seven seconds later, he was in the left corner when Kirilenko got stuck in the air with the ball and found him for a second deadly 3-pointer to make it a nine-point lead. And two minutes after that, Korver knocked down another 3.
"I've never had so many open looks in the fourth quarter," said Korver, who came to the Jazz from Philadelphia largely as a result of Utah's last game at Charlotte, when coach Jerry Sloan banished Gordan Giricek to the locker room and sent him home from the road trip and the Jazz traded for Korver less than two weeks later, on Dec. 29.
"We have guys that just command some attention, and I was able to spot up. In the past, I might get some open looks earlier in the game, and toward the end of the game, guys would stick closer to me," said Korver, claiming he's only doing the job he thinks the Jazz brought him here to do.
"It's not like I hit tough shots," he said. But they were big ones.
"Makes me feel good inside," Korver said. "It's fun. It's the game of basketball. We hit a couple shots, were able to get a couple pick-and-rolls and Carlos (Boozer) got a couple dunks. That's just what I try to do."
Korver missed his first four shots , but when he misses, he's analyzing why.
"Usually I'll know that I left it a little short, or I didn't use my legs enough or something like that. Next time, I'll try to adjust to it. A couple shots were off the back of the rim, or they were in and out, you know, and so they're right there. I wasn't throwing up airballs, so I'm still confident in it," he said.
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