Utah Jazz: Three thoughts from the hard-fought win in Brooklyn

The Utah Jazz picked up their 10th straight win against the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. Here are three things that stood out from the victory

The Utah Jazz continue to roll. They came into Brooklyn last night against a rejuvenated Nets squad just getting Kyrie Irving back after a 26 game absence.

The three point shots just weren’t falling early on for the Jazz, but fortunately they relied on a couple major runs to stay ahead. At the end of the first quarter Donovan Mitchell scored a bucket with a couple seconds left. Emmanuel Mudiay somehow intercepted the inbounds pass and made a three pointer at the buzzer.

Then at the end of the second quarter, Joe Ingles made two three pointers in a row and the Jazz got a layup from Bojan Bogdanovic to pile up an eight point run.

They were just two points shy of having four players score 20 or more points, and did a good job of holding on to the big lead they built. As we all know, Kyrie Irving is one of those players that can erase a 20 point lead in a hurry; Spencer Dinwiddie and Caris LeVert are both dangerous backcourt players as well, and the Jazz were able to hold off their late run.

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The Nets came into this game two games below .500 and a comfy five and a half game lead over the ninth place Charlotte Hornets. After Irving and LeVert went down with injuries last month, the Nets enjoyed some All-Star caliber play from Spencer Dinwiddie.

Thanks to him they were able to tread water while his backcourt mates rehabbed.  At the very end though they started to slip, and after tonight they have lost eight of their last 10 games.

For the Utah Jazz they now occupy the second seed in the Western Conference after winning their 28th game of the season. If they win Thursday night against the Pelicans they will have completed half the season on pace to win a whopping 58 games.

Here are three major takeaways from the well-earned road victory.