This was supposed to be the new and improved Heat. A version Utah had not seen this season. A version that had won seven of its past eight games and was threatening to get even better.

In the end, though, it was a Heat team missing star center Alonzo Mourning. A Heat team not good enough to defeat the Jazz.

With Mourning at the team hotel in bed with the flu, the Heat's chances of avenging its worst loss of the season, and one of the worst in NBA history, fell short in a 101-89 setback Monday night to the Jazz in front of 18,808 fans in the Delta Center.

All five Utah starters and one reserve scored in double figures, led by guard Bryon Russell's 20 points, forward Karl Malone's 19 and center Jarron Collins' 18.

Malone needs 18 points to reach 34,000 for his career.