SALT LAKE CITY, March 23 (Ticker) -- The Golden State Warriors made things interesting but again could not defeat the Utah Jazz.

Donyell Marshall had 25 points and nine rebounds and Karl Malone added 24, 12 and a season-high six steals as the Jazz defeated the Warriors for the 27th time in the last 29 meetings, 112-103.

Andrei Kirilenko added 21 points and John Stockton 13 and 15 assists for Utah, which has won 15 straight home games against Golden State since November 11, 1994.

The four Jazz stars scored all the points during a 15-0 burst in the second quarter that was capped by a layup by Marshall and opened a 50-34 advantage with 2:58 left.

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"They upped the pressure a little bit on us and we've got some young guys that got a little flustered," Warriors coach Brian Winters said. "Also, they played zone (during the run) and we didn't execute our zone offense very well. You've got to make some shots over the top. You're not going to be able to get the ball inside against a zone and we didn't do that. I thought we had a couple quality shots during that stretch and just didn't make them."

Golden State climbed within four points on six occasions thereafter but could get no closer.

Seemingly every time the Warriors got within four points, a Utah role player came up with a clutch basket. After Golden State's Chris Mills hit a pair of free throws to make it 88-84 with 8:06 remaining, reserve Scott Padgett hit a 3-pointer.

Two minutes later, Larry Hughes hit a bank shot for the Warriors to make it 92-88, but Bryon Russell countered with another shot from the arc with 6:31 to go and the Jazz never were seriously threatened after that.

"We had a four- or six-point game there and we played some zone against them," Winters said. "They didn't handle it very well until they started putting some shooters in the game. Padgett came in and made some, Kirilenko, Donyell made a couple against us. So the zone helped us for a while, but eventually they changed their lineup and put some shooters in."

Antawn Jamison had 28 points and Bob Sura chipped in 21 for the Warriors, who suffered their season-high ninth straight loss.

"We played pretty well until the last few minutes," Sura said. "They're a team that executes the whole game and it really makes it difficult on you down the stretch. They made the plays when they had to."

Golden State shot 44 percent (36-of-81) but allowed the Jazz to connect at 51 percent (44-of-86).

"We don't want to exchange baskets and we did that a great deal of the time, especially when it came down to seven or eight points," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "The game pretty much stayed that way -- we couldn't stop them and they couldn't stop us."

Utah moved within a half-game of seventh-place Seattle in the Western Conference playoff race after the Sonics lost at Denver, 88-85.