
2) The Comeback in Denver
I touched on this one with Udoh and Sefolosha, but when the Jazz came back against the Denver Nuggets, it erased some major bad vibes that were happening at the time.
Through most of the game’s first three quarters the Jazz looked like, well… like they do now. In other words, inept offensively and incapable of stopping an opposing wing/guard. The Nuggets’ Will Barton scored 21 points alone in the first half and, by the 7:34 mark of the third quarter, his team held a 15-point lead.
But then the Jazz went to work. Joe Johnson banked in a triple to beat the third-quarter horn and re-ignite the crowd. Then Alec Burks picked things up in the fourth, scoring 10 points in the period’s first four minutes to key a 16-2 run.
By the end of the night, the Jazz had won by 10, scoring 31 points off of 21 Nuggets turnovers. They had also taken Nikola Jokic completely out of the game, holding the Denver’s franchise player to seven points on 3-of-10 shooting.
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