The Golden State Warriors had only eight healthy players for tonight’s contest. But even worse than that, you can make a case that it was eight of their worst players: all of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, D’Angelo Russell, Draymond Green, and Kevon Looney were out thanks to injury. All that remained were guys on minimum contracts or two-way deals. Truthfully, I believe most of those players are going to be out of the NBA in two seasons. Willie Cauley-Stein, especially, was awful.
And yet, the Jazz only won by four. They turned the ball over 17 times. They needed every one of their 14 threes on 32 attempts.