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Monson: The Jazz are down 1, two seconds left in a must-win game. Who do you want to shoot the ball? Who don’t you want to shoot it?

This is one of those contrived beam-it-up-on-the-big-screen-in-you-brain deals, and once it’s there, ponder it a bit, and come up with your own answer. Yours might be different than somebody else’s.

Here’s the picture: The clock is winding down, Jazz trail by one point with possession in an important, must-win game. The pressure is on. The building is packed. The crowd is sucking air in and blowing it out with each breath, each bounce of the ball. Every exterior thing is equal — defensive matchups, opportunity to fire off a semi-open shot from a standard spot on the floor handicapped for that particular player, which is to say: five feet for Rudy Gobert, five to 10 feet for Dante Exum, 10 to 15 feet for Derrick Favors, 15 to 20 feet for Ricky Rubio and Royce O’Neale, 20 to 23 feet for Thabo Sefolosha, Jae Crowder, Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles and Kyle Korver.