MILWAUKEE — A day after saying a starting lineup is “not something I like to play around with because players need continuity,’’ Utah Jazz coach Quinn Snyder decided to play around with his starting lineup Thursday night. He replaced season-long starter Trey Burke in the starting lineup with rookie Dante Exum against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Early on, Snyder looked like a genius when Exum came in and knocked down two 3-pointers in the first quarter and Burke came off the bench and sank his first 3-point try of the game. Exum finished the night with a career-high 15 points with 5-of-10 from 3-point range with five assists, while Burke finished with 10 points in 24 minutes.

Exum had only averaged 2.0 points on 6-of-23 shooting over his last seven games, but Snyder decided to try him as a starter and get more offense with the second team from Burke, who was coming off a 1-for-10 night at Cleveland, after going 4-for-15 at San Antonio.

"Dante certainly had a good game and made some shots early. Trey came in and gave us a good punch off the bench and defended well,'' Snyder said. “It’s something we’ve been looking at for a little while. We’ve had trouble scoring with our second unit coming off the bench. I think Trey gives us a little more pop in that respect. I also think as Dante grows as a player, him being able to get with that first group, particularly with Gordon to help him handle the ball and relax. That’s the thought behind it.’’

Exum admitted he was nervous in his first start earlier in the month against Indiana when he missed his first five shots. He showed little nervousness Thursday as he buried back-to-back 3-pointers in the opening four minutes, then added a couple of threes in the second quarter. He called his performance Thursday “decent.’’

“Obviously I got some open shots and was able to knock them down,’’ he said. “This was a good win for us and we needed to get some confidence after those losses.''

NO PARKER: This was supposed to be Utah’s first chance to see rookie Jabari Parker, the LDS athlete from Chicago, who played at Duke last year and was the No. 2 pick in last year’s NBA draft. However, Parker went down with an ACL tear in his left knee on Dec. 16 and is out for the season.

When he was injured against the Phoenix Suns, the 19-year-old Parker was averaging 12.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists on 49 percent shooting and was one of the favorites for rookie of the year honors. He was on hand for Thursday’s game, dressed in street clothes and wearing a big knee brace as he sat behind the Bucks’ bench.

Besides Parker, the Bucks were missing three other players, Kendall Marshall and Damien Inglis due to injuries, and one to suspension — Larry Sanders who is out for 10 games for violating the NBA’s drug policy.

SAME CARLINO: The headline in Thursday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel could have come right out of the Deseret News over the past three years.

“Carlino gets red hot before fizzling out.’’

That’s Matt Carlino, the 6-foot-2, 175-pound guard, who played at BYU for three years before transferring this year to Marquette, where he is the Golden Eagles’ leading scorer at 13.9 points per game. Carlino is shooting 40.8 percent from the field, 42.5 percent and 84.5 percent from the free-throw line, similar to his numbers at BYU.

In Wednesday night’s game against St. John’s, Carlino led the team with 21 points on 6-of-14 shooting, including 5-of-11 from 3-point range. He hit four straight 3-pointers to help Marquette to an eight-point lead, but then missed six straight shots over the rest of the game as his team lost 60-57.

JAZZ NOTES: Various media reports this week reiterated a report from November that the Jazz will bring back the Rocky Mountain Revue this July with a half dozen or so teams. The Jazz hosted the Revue from 1984-2008. … Jazz vice president of basketball operations and head scout Walt Perrin was on hand for Thursday’s game. Perrin spends most of the winter scouting college players, but since he lives in Chicago, he just drove up for the game. … Attendance was just 12,416. The Bucks ranke 26th in the NBA in attendance at 14,936. … The Jazz returned home in the middle of the night and will get ready for four straight home games, beginning with Brooklyn Saturday night. After that, the Jazz will play Boston Monday, L.A. Clippers Wednesday and Golden State Friday.