Given that just a half-game separates them in fourth and fifth place in the NBA’s Western Conference playoff race, it’s not entirely out the realm of possibility that the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers could play each other up to nine more times this season.
As such, contest between the two teams Monday night at Vivint Arena could have been viewed as a potential playoff preview. It didn’t go well for the Jazz who scored a season-low 72 points en route to a 16-point loss.
While it’ll probably be tough for Utah to regularly shoot as poorly as it did Monday (just over 32 percent from the field and just over 17 percent from behind the 3-point line), a few questions arose during Monday’s 88-72 loss that the Jazz will need to answer should they be pitted against the Clippers in a playoff series.