The odds have been good for a couple of months now that the Jazz would make the playoffs, but that doesn’t mean that some didn’t stay awake at night imagining the worst.
So when they clinched their playoff berth on Thursday night, thanks to a Sacramento loss, there was a sense of relief, however minor with still seven games to go in the season, that the playoffs would take place in Utah for the third straight year. Making the playoffs, Jazz coach Quin Snyder said, was a side goal to his larger vision of the Jazz’s future.
“The way to accomplish it is to be a good team,” Snyder said.