Charting the Lead / A Look at the Lakers’ Defeat by the Minute

First Quarter

Lakers 12, Jazz 24

* Highlight Reel: Salt Lake City is a wonderful place to change planes if you’re headed somewhere more exciting, such as Boise, Idaho, or Missoula, Mont. Maybe it was the lack of night life, but the Lakers came out looking as sleepy as Salt Lake City on a Friday night. OK, that’s all.

* What You Won’t Find in the Box Score: What happened to all that great passing in the Lakers’ victory over Seattle in the last round? The ball went inside, then never returned outside. Unlike the SuperSonics, Utah has several players to guard (hack?) Shaquille O’Neal.

* Winning Number: Lakers’ 13 points were a huge confidence boost for the Jazz.

* Wrong Number: Lakers’ 19% shooting was a bad way to open the series.

* Leading Scorers: Lakers--Kobe Bryant 5; Jazz--Karl Malone 6.

* Leading Rebounders: Lakers--Corie Blount 4; Jazz--Malone, Greg Foster 3.

Second Quarter

Lakers 35, Jazz 61

* Highlight Reel: Forget Malone and John Stockton. The new Jazz hero is somebody named Howard Eisley, who torched the Lakers from here, there and everywhere during the pivotal second quarter. Eisley had 12 of Utah’s first 18 points, and the Jazz made seven of its first eight shots to break the game open.

* What You Won’t Find in the Box Score: No, 35 points wasn’t a playoff record for the Lakers. They scored 28 in a game April 7, 1974, against the Milwaukee Bucks.

* Winning Number: None for the flat-footed Lakers.

* Wrong Number: Lakers’ 26-point deficit. No team in playoff history has rallied from greater than a 21-point halftime deficit.

* Leading Scorers: Lakers--Bryant 8; Jazz--Eisley 12.

* Leading Rebounders: Lakers--Robert Horry 3; Jazz--Shandon Anderson 6.

Third Quarter

Lakers 65, Jazz 91

* Highlight Reel: The pick and roll is as old as dirt, but the Lakers couldn’t stop it and continued to trail by 26 points by quarter’s end. Stockton and Malone worked it again and again. It was a dramatic change from the predictable one-on-one moves of Seattle’s Gary Payton in the previous series.

* What You Won’t Find in the Box Score: Someone in a Laker uniform to muzzle Malone. Coach Del Harris was right to worry about Malone kicking his guys while shooting. Malone kicked them but good in the quarter.

* Winning Number: Game 2 is Monday.

* Wrong Number: Malone’s 16 points and three rebounds in the quarter.

* Leading Scorers: Lakers--O’Neal 9; Jazz--Malone 16.

* Leading Rebounders: Lakers--Rick Fox 2; Jazz--Malone 3.

Fourth Quarter

Lakers 77, Jazz 112

* Highlight Reel: Hey, that was some run by Real Quiet in the Preakness. Just about as big a rout as the Laker-Jazz game. Can’t wait for the Belmont. Turned back just in time to hear those Salt Laker Haters chanting, “Beat L.A.” So hip, so original. We never tire of hearing it.

* What You Won’t Find in the Box Score: References to “The Memorial Day Massacre,” a 148-114 loss in Game 1 of the 1985 NBA finals to the Celtics on May 27, 1985. The Lakers stormed back to win that series, four games to two.

* Winning Number: Real Quiet paid $7 to win.

* Wrong Number: Lakers’ 30% shooting for the game.

* Leading Scorers: Lakers--O’Neal 4; Jazz--Antoine Carr 8.

* Leading Rebounders: Lakers--Bryant 4; Jazz--Anderson 5.