This is not the column I intended to write, on a game the Jazz did not intend to play, on a defeat they did not intend to suffer.
That initial piece included questions about the Jazz’s final 20 games, the ease of them, the breezy winning that would come, and what that would mean for the postseason.
The Jazz were supposed to beat the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night, just the way they are supposed to beat most of the teams remaining on their schedule, determined by some to be the weakest in the NBA.
If the Jazz really were favored in nearly every one of those last games, and they went ahead and won most of them, as expected, what exactly would that mean for what matters most … the playoffs?