Deseret Morning News | Off-beat Jazz still too much for Toronto
“I don’t care what the score is,” said Sloan, whose now 7-2 Jazz went into Wednesday’s play averaging a league-high 111.9 points per game. “I don’t pay any attention to that.

“As long as you win,” added Sloan, who apparently was willing to overlook Utah’s season-worst 42.9 percent field shooting, “they’ll never know if it’s 90s and 200s at the end of the season.”

Sloan actually praised his club’s late-game defense, and credited Utah’s offense for reversing course following an opening half in which it scored just 39 points — two nights after it had 65 in the first two quarters of a 117-93 win over Sacramento.

That’s 10 fewer points than the Jazz’s previous first-half low of 49, which came when they lost to Houston during the only other outing this season in which they failed to surpass the century mark.

“We executed our offense real well (late),” Sloan said. “We went through a stretch there where we didn’t execute very well, (but) when we executed we had good shots.”