Coaching who's here

SACRAMENTO – With swingmen C.J. Miles, Kyle Korver, Ronnie Brewer and Matt Harpring all injured and out, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan will have only 11 healthy players available for tonight’s preseason finale at Sacramento.
And that’s assuming combo guard and ex-King Ronnie Price – being called a “gametime decision” by the club – is able to play despite the hamstring strain that kept him out of Utah’s last three exhibition games.
It’s presuming, too, no one else gets hurt stepping off the bus or into the shower – and that’s no sure bet with this team.
But all that’s fine by Sloan, who after years and years of relative good health during the John Stockton and Karl Malone Jazz era knew it would all eventually catch up.
“We coach who’s here,” he said.
Tonight, that probably will mean longer-than-they’ve-seen-so-far-in-the-preseason runs for regulars like Deron Williams, Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur, Andrei Kirilenko and Paul Millsap.
“Some of our front-line players, probably some of them need to play a little bit more, try to get a feel for what they’re going to face when the season starts,” Sloan, who Jazz open for real on Wednesday night at Denver, said prior to practice Thursday. “We’ll see how it goes, see what kind of foul shape we’re in, and that sort of thing.”

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