SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz’s double-overtime, down-to-the-wire loss to the Denver Nuggets on Saturday was the team’s best performance in the bubble.
After the game I wrote that the Jazz can use the loss as a blueprint moving forward. They played great basketball in the first half, showed early energy and effort that has been missing as of late, generated and then missed really good looks in the third quarter and then battled back in the final moments of the fourth to make things competitive once again. But it wasn’t perfect.