We’re to the point of the season that a major factor, maybe the major factor, in some of these games is whether or not the teams that the Jazz play care or not. Tonight, the Jazz faced the Kings on a second night of a back to back, already assured of missing the playoffs, without their starting center, and with their best player De’Aaron Fox earning three fouls in four minutes.
So Donovan Mitchell gets the ball in the corner, pump fakes, and drives baseline. All of a sudden he realizes, “hey, wait, nobody’s preventing me from scoring here, let’s score!