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. They didnt want us to kick out for 3s and thats why you didnt see a lot of that.UP NEXTRockets: Travels to play the Warriors on Thursday night for the first time this season in a meeting of former Thunder stars James Harden and Kevin Durant.Jazz: Host the Heat on Thursday night. The Jazz won their previous meeting by 11 nearly three weeks ago.Joey Bosa Womens Jersey . For the Wild it was their first win of the season and they now have a record of 1-1-2 while the Jets fall to 2-2. Jets start a six game home stand Friday with another divisional game, home to the Dallas Stars. Mike Williams Chargers Jersey .J. -- Pitcher Carl Pavano is retiring after 14 major league seasons. http://www.prochargersteamstore.com/Youth-Doug-Flutie-Elite-Jersey/ . A knee to the thigh might have stung him the most, but his sixth straight double-double made up for the brief burst of pain. Antonio Gates Jersey . PAUL, Minn. Easton Stick Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla.SAN FRANCISCO -- Joe Panik homered twice and matched his career high of four RBI to back Madison Bumgarner, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 13-3 on Sunday to win a series for only the second time since the All-Star break.Denard Span and Eduardo Nunez also homered, Brandon Crawford had three hits and Jarrett Parker drove in three runs for San Francisco.The Giants took two of three from the Braves and remained two games behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.Bumgarner (13-8) allowed three runs over seven uneven innings. He struck out five and walked two.San Franciscos four-time All-Star pitched in and out of trouble most of the day but punctuated his afternoon with an emphatic fist pump after striking out pinch-hitter Jace Peterson to end the seventh.Freddie Freeman and Gordon Beckham homered for Atlanta. Ender Inciarte doubled, tripled and scored twice, but the last-place Braves have lost 13 of 18.Panik hit a solo homer in the second and added a two-run shot in the fourth. The second baseman also reached on an infield single in the sixth and had a sacrifice fly in the seventh.It was the first multihomer game of his career.Three batters after Paniks homer in the fourth, Span added his ninth of the season.All three home runs came off Braves starter Aaron Blair (0-6).ddddddddddddNunez, who had three hits, homered as part of an eight-run seventh, when the Giants tripled three times and sent 14 batters to the plate.Freeman hit his 27th home run off Bumgarner in the sixth.Blair, called up from the minors to make his first start in more than two months, allowed five runs over four innings.TRAINERS ROOMBraves: RHP John Gant was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett to make room for Blair.Giants: 1B Brandon Belt was in the lineup after being a late scratch Saturday because of a stiff neck. ... OF Hunter Pence missed his third consecutive game with tightness in his right hamstring. ... Giants reliever Derek Law was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right elbow. ... Parker was called up from Triple-A Sacramento before the game.UP NEXTBraves: RHP Julio Teheran (3-9) pitches against San Diego on Tuesday in the opener of a brief, three-game homestand. Teheran is winless since June 19.Giants: RHP Johnny Cueto (14-4) faces Arizona for the fourth time this season Tuesday at AT&T Park. Cueto has two wins and a 3.86 ERA in his previous three games against the Diamondbacks. ' ' '