The Utah Jazz managed to notch their fifth consecutive win tonight in Portland. The Portland Trail Blazers have now lost three straight and the reason is obvious. Defense. The Jazz took advantage of Portland’s lack of defense all night long.
Both teams were missing some important players with the Jazz sans Donovan Mitchell while the Blazers were missing CJ McCollum and Jusuf Nurkic. Nurkic’s size and presence were badly missed by the Blazers.
The Blazers simply could not stop the Jazz from scoring. The scoring started out quick for the Jazz and never really slowed down.