If you’re the Utah Jazz, fighting to stay in your first round series with the Houston Rockets you might have a checklist from what you’d want to happen in Game 3. To my mind it would look something like this:
(This marks a triumphal return of Bullet Points, The Lazy Man’s Friend(tm).)
- Key the entire defense on James Harden. Force him into bad shots, turn him into a play maker.
Check. Done. James Harden had the worst shooting game of his career at one point this evening.