I mean, that really got out of hand fast. What was a 12-point halftime deficit turned into a 25-point margin by the third quarter and a 50-point deficit by the end as the Jazz simply gave up.
Blowout losses happen for teams, but what usually protects them from being this bad is a yo-yo effect on basketball games. In general, when one team is being blown out, they’re able to make a little bit of a comeback run due to some or all of the following factors:
2. The losing team stops playing the bad players that put them in a hole and put in better ones, or at least ones that try harder
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