Fouls, the crowd and playing from behind …

A few thoughts from the Jazz at their shootaround this morning in advance of Game 3 in their Western Conference semifinal series with the Los Angeles Lakers:
* Coach Jerry Sloan, on playing from behind: ‘Most of the time when you’re playing catchup basketball, you can’t afford mistakes.”
* Carlos Boozer, on trying to avoid the foul trouble he had in Wednesday’s Game 2 loss: ‘The more you think about fouls, the more you pick them up.”
* Deron Williams: ‘I think that definitely what we have to play with is a sense of urgency. ‘ We just have to play our game; put together 48 minutes of basketball.”
* Sloan, on feeding off the crowd with the series shifting to EnergySolutions Arena: ‘If you rely on things like that ‘ you’re going to be disappointed.”

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