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(SportsNetwork.com) - The San Antonio Spurs look to add to the misery of the Utah Jazz when the two clubs collide Tuesday in Salt Lake City. The Jazz have lost nine straight and went 0-4 against the Spurs last season. The two Western Conference foes will meet again on Jan. 18 and Feb. 23, while San Antonio is unbeaten in the past five games in this series and 12-2 in the last 14 meetings. San Antonio has won two straight and five of the last seven trips to Utah. Tony Parker averaged 20.0 points and 7.3 assists against the Jazz last season and Tim Duncan posted 16.8 points and 8.8 rebounds. Derrick Favors paced the Jazz with 18.3 points and 11.8 boards. The Spurs pushed their record to 15-5 this season after Saturdays 123-101 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves and were led by Marco Belinellis 20 points off the bench. Kawhi Leonard and Cory Joseph scored 18 points apiece and Boris Diaw netted 17 in a reserve role. Everything was clicking, Spurs guard Danny Green said. We moved the ball well. San Antonio shot 57.3 percent from the floor and were without Parker (hamstring) and top bench player Manu Ginobili (shoulder). Parker, who leads the team in points (16.6) and assists (5.5), is expected to sit another game and Ginobili is questionable. Ginobili is posting 11.9 ppg. The Spurs are second in opponents scoring (94.0 ppg) and 8-4 outside the Alamo City, where theyll play two straight versus New York and Los Angeles (Lakers) next. Utah has two tough games at home versus the Spurs and Miami Heat before heading east for six games against Washington, New Orleans, Miami, Orlando, Charlotte and Memphis. The Jazz are winless in the past six at home and 3-8 overall at EnergySolutions Arena. In Mondays 101-92 loss at Sacramento, Gordon Hayward scored 19 points, Alec Burks netted 16 and both Enes Kanter and Trey Burke scored 13 points for Utah, which gave up 30-plus points in the second and fourth quarters and made 40.5 percent for the game. 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Defeat for South Korea means it must now beat already-qualified Belgium to stand a chance of progressing to the knockout stages.F1 qualifying will revert to the 2015 format from the next race in Bahrain after team bosses agreed to immediately drop the elimination-style system. The sports new-look qualifying format for 2016 endured a disastrous debut at the Australian GP on Saturday with cars repeatedly not on track at the end of the three sessions - including the final minutes of Q3 when pole position should have been fought between the two quickest drivers.Team principals, including Christian Horner, Toto Wolff and Maurizio Arrivabene, and sporting directors met with FIA race director Charlie Whiting to discuss an urgent response on Sunday morning in Melbourne. Horner and Wolff confirmed on their departures from the 25-minute meeting that the team representatives had unanimously agreed to drop the system with immediate effect.Pending official ratification by the F1 Commission and World Motor Sport Council, the qualifying system will revert to the more standard three-part knockout format used between 2006 and 2015 from the Bahrain GP on April 2-3.We made a mistake and will go back for the next race, Horner told Sky Sports News HQ. We are usually a pretty dysfunctional group but there was absolute unanimity. After securing his 50th career pole position, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton revealed that his engineers had predicted that the new qualifying format woul Were tickling with the wrong areas. Its like trying to introduce a second ball on the pitch in football. The problems arent in the format of qualifying or what a grand prix is. 2017 represents a great opportunity with different regs and thats the opportunity that shoulld be used for closer racing.ddddddddddddAll the teams are looking to protect their competitiveness, but youve got to look at the bigger picture. What do the fans want? Primarily a drivers championship. Drivers racing wheel to wheel in exciting fast cars.When you try and get 11 teams to write that on a piece of paper what it should be, thats where it goes wrong. Thats where it should be taken out of the teams hands. The promoter and the governing body should say, this is what Formula 1s going to be, sign up or do something else.A shake-up of knockout qualifying was only first agreed two weeks ago and had already provoked controversy among drivers, who had argued that it would not work.Team managers also met with FIA race director Charlie Whiting to express reservations about the new-look Q3 during testing at Barcelona, but the elimination system was subsequently rubber-stamped in its original form last week.Conclusions from QualifyingMercedes boss Wolff said that while there would not be any further tinkering with the qualifying system over the rest of the season, F1 shouldnt wipe completely off the table the idea of creating a new format to spice up the show in future. Martin Brundle and David Croft give their damning verdict on the new F1 qualifying format which resulted in no action for the last four minutes The first race of the 2016 F1 season, the Australian GP, is exclusively live on Sky Sports F1. The race in Melbourne starts at 5am on Sunday morning. 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