Mar 27, 2003 7:43 PM EST

Since that Sunday afternoon they were embarrassed in Cleveland — it seems like eons ago, but really was less than two weeks — the Jazz have been in a zone.

In the eeriest of manners, everything seems to be going their way. Greg Ostertag — Greg Ostertag — throws an alley-oop pass to Andrei Kirilenko, and it goes straight into the basket without ever touching Kirilenko's hands. Alley-oops? Wednesday night at the Delta Center, Utah won for the fifth straight time — leading from wire-to-wire in a 94-85 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.

Via Deseret News