"His team doesn't play baseball, but Jerry Sloan is borrowing a common practice from America's pastime.

The Jazz manager has adopted an unofficial starting rotation.

Sloan, continuing to search for answers during the team's season-worst slump, returned to his ace small forward, Andrei Kirilenko, to start Wednesday's game against San Antonio.

AK-47's return to the first five comes a night after C.J. Miles started against the Lakers, and that came a game after rookie Gordon Hayward got the tipoff call at the 3 spot on Saturday. The Jazz lost both games.

"I put Andrei in because we still haven't been rebounding any more," Sloan said. "And I feel like we were still winning some games before we started making changes. We'll go back to that and see how it goes."

Despite the change, the Jazz suffered their sixth-straight loss — 112-105 to the Spurs at EnergySolutions Arena.

Sloan didn't say whether or not he'll return to his three-man small forward starting rotation Friday against Minnesota."