After the Jazz went down seven against Orlando in the final minutes on Tuesday night, the Vivint Smart Home Arena crowd expressed some mixture of nervousness, disappointment, and dismay.
Seconds later, after Donovan Mitchell drove the lane, cocked the ball, elevated over Magic center Nikola Vucevic, and threw down a wicked tomahawk jam, the mood was instantaneously elevated.
Mitchell himself said he didn’t quite know where that explosive a play came from, though he explained that with Vooch lurking, he definitely intended to go in strong.
“I understand with a guy like that you can’t just lay it up.