“Trying to figure it all out is hard," Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said before the game. "We’ve got like 10 pages of spreadsheets that’s down to like 1 page now, so we can try to figure it out. What you realize is most of it you can’t control anyway.”
That’s one reason why the Jazz haven’t resorted to some of losing measures of other teams around them. For example, the Nuggets chose to rest their best players on Sunday against the Blazers, even though doing so risked the No. 2 seed. The rationale? Getting the Rockets out of their playoff bracket, setting themselves up for a potential run to the Western Conference Finals.