I’m trying not to break my own rule.
I try not to make too much of any single regular-season game. Especially one that the Jazz won by double figures on a Monday night in January.
But some ugly trends reared their heads tonight in ways that I think the Jazz would not have been able to survive had they not been playing one of the league’s worst teams.
Sloppy Execution
With Whiteside out again tonight, fans likely expected a poor defensive performance in the minutes that Rudy Gobert was off the floor.