In their first home preseason game, the Utah Jazz got outrebounded, struggled to hit shots and were described as looking downright "sluggish" by their coach. If some Jazz players didn't consider this a meaningless preseason game, they could have fooled Jerry Sloan. "We looked like we didn't even care," Utah's sideline boss said following an uninspiring 96-89 loss to the Phoenix Suns at EnergySolutions Arena. "That's a huge concern to me." But good luck convincing Jazz big man Kyrylo Fesenko this game didn't have any significance. For the 21-year-old Ukrainian, Thursday's contest was a chance-of-a-lifetime encounter. He finally got to go mano-a-mammoth with his childhood hero, Shaquille O'Neal. While their 10-minute match-up didn't exactly factor into the final score much, Fesenko said he learned a huge lesson from battling...
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