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SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder explained his teams offensive explosion Tuesday night in the most basic way -- they made shots.Gordon Hayward scored a season-high 31 points, helping the Jazz beat the Houston Rockets 120-101 for their season-best fourth straight win.Sometimes its as simple as that, Snyder said. Weve been getting some pretty good looks. Tonight the ball went into the basket.You take it when you can get it because sometimes it goes the other way.Utah started strong en route to a season high for scoring. Rodney Hood had 10 points during a 20-5 first-quarter run after trailing 16-9, and Houston never led again. Hood finished with 19 points.Rudy Gobert recorded his 11th double-double of the season with 16 points, 14 rebounds and three blocks. Hayward had seven assists and five rebounds.James Harden scored 26 points but was an inefficient 8 for 23 from the field. He also had seven assists and five rebounds, while Eric Gordon scored 24 points off the bench.Hayward said the game was won on the defensive end by forcing Harden into tough shots and keeping everyone else in check.I started to get some better looks in the fourth quarter and got in a little bit of a rhythm, Hayward said. Teammates found me in good spots. Able to knock down some shots and see the ball go in. And that was that.We wanted to make sure that we made some of their guys guard. Theyre so good on the offensive end, thats kind of what they want to get to.Utah rolled through the first half behind some dead-eye shooting from the entire roster. The team shot 54.8 percent from the field, including nine 3-pointers, to take a 62-50 lead into the break. The Rockets were 4 for 17 from behind the arc in the first 20 minutes, accounting for the biggest difference between the teams in the half.We were a step slow at everything, Rockets coach Mike DAntoni said. When we switched, we didnt switch out. We didnt pick up at the right points. Defensively, we just did not bring everything we had. Whether were tired or whatever the reason, it doesnt matter. Well try to figure that out. But we didnt have the same intensity.I just thought the whole game it looked like we were running in mud.TIP-INSRockets: Houston is 5-2 since Patrick Beverley returned from knee surgery. ... The Rockets are 2-1 during the current five-game road trip. ... They made 11 3s and have hit at least 10 3-pointers in their last 17 games, an NBA record.Jazz: The 62 first-half points were a season high. ... Utah is 10-2 when leading at halftime. ... Derrick Favors missed his seventh consecutive game with a left knee bone contusion. ... The 55.4 shooting percentage was a season high.ANOTHER INJURYHood left in the third quarter with a right hamstring strain and did not return. The Jazz have been plagued by injuries again this year as Hayward, George Hill, Favors, Boris Diaw and Alec Burks have all missed time due to injury.GO, GO, GOMike DAntoni wants his teams to play fast, and thats usually a player-friendly system. The Rockets coach, however, said its easier said than done.All players say they want to run and most players dont, actually, he explained. Its sexy to say, yeah, were a running team. But it does take some mental energy to go out and do that every day and just get into the habit.Ive done both ways. I think its more taxing to play halfcourt basketball and slug it out with somebody than to run around. But they fall back into old habits and old habits are just walking the ball down. Thats hard to break up sometimes.QUOTABLEThey wanted us to score 1-on-1, Gordon said. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Chelsea midfielder Oscar and Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago Silva are back in Brazils squad for next months World Cup qualifiers, after a long absence,Formerly starters for Brazil, both Oscar and Silva were long overlooked by Dunga, who took over as Brazil coach after the 7-1 loss to Germany in the 2014 World Cup semifinal until 2016.Current coach Adenor Bacchi, known as Tite, continued his shake up on Friday. Bayern Munich star Douglas Costa is also back in the squad after recovering from injury.Brazil hosts Bolivia on Oct.6 in the Northeastern coastal city of Natal and then travels to Merida to play Venezuela on Oct. 11.After two wins against Ecuador and Colombia, Brazil is second in the South American qualifiers with 15 points from eight games, a point behind Uruguay.Tite said his second list has more players in that are in Europe because of logistical reasons.This is a more balanced list than before. Now we are nnot disrupting the beginning of the European season, Tite said in a press conference at the Brazilian Confederation headquarters in Rio.dddddddddddd---Brazil:Goalkeepers: Alisson (Roma), Weverton (Atletico Paranaense), Alex Muralha (Flamengo).Defenders: Dani Alves (Juventus), Fagner (Corinthians), Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Miranda (Inter Milan), Gil (Shandong Luneng), Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain), Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain).Midfielders: Casemiro (Real Madrid), Fernandinho (Manchester City), Giuliano (Zenit), Renato Augusto (Beijing Guoan), Paulinho (Guangzhou Evergrande), Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool), Lucas Lima (Santos), Willian (Chelsea), Oscar (Chelsea).Forwards: Douglas Costa (Bayern Munich), Gabriel Jesus (Palmeiras), Neymar (Barcelona), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool). ' ' '