Jazz 95, Bucks 86

18/12/2010 22:07:00

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Deron Williams scored 22 points and added 11 assists, leading the Utah Jazz past the Milwaukee Bucks 95-86 and overcoming a double-digit deficit for the ninth time this season on Saturday night.The Jazz (19-9) avoided losing consecutive games for the first time since starting 0-2 and shook off a season-low 71 points on Friday in New Orleans with a second-half surge after falling behind by 12 early to Milwaukee.Al Jefferson added 18 points and nine rebounds, C.J. Miles scored 16 points and Paul Millsap had 15 for the Jazz, which had 10 of its 14 offensive rebounds in the second half.Andrew Bogut scored 19 points and had nine rebounds and John Salmons returned from back spasms to contribute 18 points, but the Bucks couldn´t hold on to the lead.Brandon Jennings gave Milwaukee an 80-79 lead on a layup with 6:22 left, but Williams, who had been whistled for a technical foul on the bench earlier in the quarter, answered with a 3 for the fifth lead change of the fourth.Salmons threw a bad pass that ended up in the hands of Francisco Elson, who flipped it to Andrei Kirilenko for a dunk. Bogut answered, but Kirilenko hit a long jumper, Millsap made a layup, Williams added two free throws and Jefferson tipped in a miss to make it 92-82 with 3:29 left.Williams scored 15 of his 22 in the second half.Utah, traveling nearly 4,300 miles in this four-game road trip, didn´t wait for the fourth quarter to make a big run with a 15-3 spurt early in the second half.Early in the third, Millsap stole the ball from Jennings and missed a layup on the other end that Williams followed with a putback. Jefferson then hit a short jumper to give Utah a 52-48 lead.On the other end, Bogut appeared to jam his right arm trying to dunk over Millsap, and was gripping his elbow and shaking out the same hand he injured in an ugly fall in April, but stayed in the game.The Jazz took a 58-49 lead midway through the third quarter, but Milwaukee, playing its only home game in a two-week stretch, tied it before Raja Bell hit a 3-pointer to give Utah a 71-68 lead heading into the fourth.Milwaukee scored the first five points and raced out to a 14-4 lead and Drew Gooden hit consecutive jumpers midway through the second quarter to give the Bucks their biggest lead of the first half at 39-27 lead.Utah cut it to three at the half and took its first lead with the first four points of the third quarter.Notes: Bogut, the No. 1 overall pick in 2005, played in the 350th game of his career. ... Utah coach Jerry Sloan is two wins away from surpassing Pat Riley (1,210) for third on the career coaching list. ... Milwaukee has made eight coaching changes since Sloan took over in Utah in 1988. ... Jazz PF Mehmet Okur, in his second game back since rupturing his left Achilles´ tendon, went 1 for 5 for three points.