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MIAMI -- When the Utah Jazz (6-4) invade AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday night, they will be looking to beat the Miami Heat (2-5) and put an exclamation point on what has so far been an excellent road trip.When the Jazz left home a little more than a week ago, they were a .500 team at 3-3. But they have since gone 3-1, including an 87-74 win over the Orlando Magic on Friday night.Saturdays game will be Utahs fifth in seven nights.You have to be mentally tough, Jazz shooting guard Rodney Hood told the media. This is the end of the trip. We have to be smart and focused.An interesting aspect of this winning road trip is that most of it has been accomplished without starting point guard George Hill, who is second on the team in scoring (20.4) and first in assists (5.0).Hill has missed the past three games due to a sprained right thumb, and the 30-year-old veteran was the teams key offseason acquisition.Dante Exum, a 6-6 Australian and the No. 5 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, has been starting in Hills place, although his numbers this season are modest -- 6.3 points, 1.7 assists.Fortunately for the Jazz, 6-8 small forward Gordon Hayward just keeps getting better -- he has led Utah in scoring in each of the past three years. This season, he is leading again, averaging 25.7 points.Hood, a 6-6 former Duke star, is also improving. He averaged 8.5 points as a rookie, 14.5 points last season and is at 17.9 this year. Derrick Favors (10.6 points, 7.6 rebounds) is a solid veteran at power forward and is capable of more -- he averaged 16.4 points last season.Rounding out the Utah starting lineup is 7-1 French center Rudy Gobert, who is nearly averaging a double-double -- 9.3 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.2 blocks.Gobert, who will be a restricted free agent after this season, should have an interesting matchup on Saturday against Heat center Hassan Whiteside, who got paid this past summer.Whiteside, who signed a four-year, $98 million extension with Miami, is averaging 17.9 points and 14.7 rebounds -- monster numbers.Still, Whitesides heroics are not enough for the Heat, who are on a three-game losing streak. The skid could have been six in a row had Miami not escaped with an overtime win over the Sacramento Kings.Whiteside stated what is pretty obvious, that there has been a talent drain on the Heat and that losing Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh off of last seasons team has hurt him in particular.With D-Wade, I never had to work on it, said Whiteside, explaining that his former teammate would often feed him lobs that led to easy dunks. He just saw it.Whiteside is still putting up impressive numbers -- he had 20 points and a season-high 20 rebounds on Thursday against the Chicago Bulls. But the lob dunks arent there as much, and Miami lacks the perimeter shooting to make teams pay for sagging and doubling on Whiteside.If teams collapse on Hassan, we have to be ready to make a play, said Miamis Justise Winslow, who could be emerging as a point forward. We would love to get Hassan lobs. But we have to read the defense and take what they give us. We cant force.Perhaps Saturday is the night the Heat break out of their slump. After all, the Jazz, who have former Heat forward Joe Johnson as part of their bench brigade, have talked openly about fatigue setting in at the end of this trip.Weve played a lot of games, Hayward said. It feels like weve been on the road for quite a while now.Cheap Wholesale Jordans Free Shipping .Y. -- Sabres defenceman Tyler Myers had no intention of changing his hard-hitting style before taking part in a disciplinary hearing for his illegal check to New Jersey forward Dainius Zubrus head. Cheap Jordans Online Website . Dukurs winning time was 1 minute, 45.76 seconds, a quarter-second better than Russias Alexander Tretiakov. Lativas Tomass Dukurs was third, 1.41 seconds off the pace. 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He pitched to his game plan.Cesar Hernandez had two hits for the Phillies, totaled four.Back to no offense, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. Cesar had a couple of hits and we had a couple of men in scoring position, but couldnt get them in.Acquired from San Diego on July 29, Cashner (5-11) allowed four hits. He had been 0-4 in his first six starts following the trade.Its kind of been a struggle since Ive been over here, Cashner said. We had a different lineup tonight. Its good to have some guys back and get us rolling.Cashner walked two and kept the Phillies off balance by pitching to all parts of the plate.Obviously good, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. He had a lot of pitches to get there. He was changing speeds a lot and was obviously successful.Martin Prado drove in three runs for the Marlins, who faded from playoff contention by losing their previous five games and 10 of 11.We still have a lot of baseball left, Cashner said.Mike Dunn, Kyle Barraclough, A.J. Ramos and Austin Brice combined for hitless relief..ddddddddddddJeremy Hellickson (10-9) gave up four runs -- three earned -- and nine hits in six innings.I made too many mistakes early in the count especially the first couple of innings, Hellickson said.Ichiro Suzuki tripled in the first and scored Prados groundout. Sacrifice flies by Realmuto in the second and Prado in the fifth boosted the lead to 3-0.Third baseman Andres Blancos throwing error allowed Marcell Ozuna to reach in the sixth, and Ozuna scored on J.T. Realmutos double-play grounder.Prado and Christian Yelich hit consecutive RBI doubles in the seventh off Severino Gonzalez.TRAINERS ROOMPhillies: 3B Maikel Franco did not play after jamming his right thumb during Sundays game against Atlanta.UP NEXTPhillies: RHP Alec Asher is to make his season debut Thursday to begin a four-game series at Washington. Asher was 0-6 with a 9.31 ERA in seven starts last season. He will go up against Nationals RHP A.J. Cole (1-1, 3.86 ERA). The two young right-handers went to high school 75 miles apart in Florida.Marlins: RHP Jose Fernandez (13-8, 3.03) will oppose Dodgers LHP Clayton Kershaw (11-1, 1.79) on Friday. I look forward to every match-up, but of course theres certain guys that you think, `I wish that I could pitch against this guy so Im looking forward to it, Fernandez said. ' ' '
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