With Thursday night’s 132-93 annihilation of the Sacramento Kings, the Utah Jazz completed their preseason slate a perfect 5-0 and showed plenty of encouraging signs heading into next Wednesday’s regular-season opener.
After all, two of those victories came against the Perth Wildcats and the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian National Basketball League. Another, of course, came against the Kings, who have been among the NBA’s worst for years and, by Thursday’s performance anyway, don’t appear anywhere close to turning that around.
Jazz coach Quin Snyder acknowledged before the Sacramento game that he was unlikely to put too much stock in the outcome.