Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 128-124 win over the Washington Wizards from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
You may have heard this scary-looking stat: the Jazz are 0-7 in games decided by 3 points or less. Yikes!
Here’s something closer to the truth, though: the Jazz are 5-7 in games in which the score was within 3 points in the last 10 seconds. If you want to extend that 10 seconds to a minute, they’re 7-9 in those games. And if you extend it to 5 minutes, the Jazz are 10-11 then.
So when Ricky Rubio was asked about how it was to finally win a close one, Rubio was confused by the premise of the question.