The Utah Jazz got back on track with a win on Wednesday and there were a few very reassuring aspects to their performance.
The Utah Jazz’s win on Wednesday over the Denver Nuggets was a long time coming. After dropping four straight contests in miserable fashion, it was very refreshing and reassuring to see the Jazz get back on track and finally take care of business with a wire-to-wire 108-83 win.
In the previous match-up against the Nuggets, the Jazz looked slow and tired and were essentially doomed after the first quarter of play as Denver ran them out of the building.
However, the script was flipped on Wednesday as Denver came into Vivint Arena on the second night of a back-to-back to face a Jazz team that was coming off of two days rest. And while this may have been a major contributor to Utah’s dominant win, they simply looked like a different team and much more like the one we expected to see this season.
Of course as Utah now sits at an even 8-8 on the season, there’s still plenty of work to do. However, they certainly showed significant progress in Wednesday’s win and displayed several reasons to feel optimistic moving forward.
While there were a number of things that went right in the victory, the following were the three most encouraging signs for this Jazz team moving forward: