The Utah Jazz were 1-3 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2017-18 regular season. Utah hasn’t beaten OKC since October 21, the third game of the season, but that doesn’t come close to telling the whole story. The other 3 games of the series took place over a span of 18 days during the Jazz’s gauntlet December schedule. In the final game of the series, Utah fell 103-89 on December 23 to hit 15-19 on the season, meaning that the Thunder haven’t seen this squad since their mid-January turnaround.
Here are three big reasons that the Jazz-Thunder playoff series tipping off Sunday will look nothing like those early season games:
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Since these two teams last met, the Thunder have lost Andre Roberson for the season to injury.