Jazz do Jekyll & Hyde act in odd spectacle of a win over Pistons

The Utah Jazz never run out of ways to, um, play basketball games. Sure, a win's a win, and for now, it won't hurt their tanking chances all that much when they come up victorious. But man, this was quite a spectacle to watch in the oddest way possible.

Just look at Collin Sexton's statline. That epitomized what the night was all about.

Sexton put up as good of a statline as he can when he's on his game, but along with that, he also coughed up 10 turnovers. Like the game itself, it's a good performance that managed to come with plenty of big warts.

Why this was a game that shan't be forgotten

It's not like the Jazz beat one of its fellow tankers. The Pistons are competing this year and have looked their best since the Blake Griffin days. They don't necessarily look like shoo-ins for the playoffs, but they don't look like a team that will back down from anyone (even if they just lost to the Jazz).

At first, it looked like this game would be a redux of their win over the Trail Blazers, where it was complete annihilation from beginning to end. However, after going up 48-19 to end the first quarter, Detroit had a response of their own when they won the second quarter, 35-19.

Suddenly, we had a game on our hands, until the Jazz pushed the lead back up to as many as 21 before the Pistons cut it back down to 11, which all happened in the third quarter alone. The Pistons cut the lead to as few as five points, but by then, the game was already decided.

This game highlights both the good and bad aspects of the Jazz. Sure, they're unintentionally chasing a record they probably won't be proud of if they get it. Still, they have enough win-now veterans that if they are all on their A-game, it's not unreasonable to expect them to tear through their opponent.

Because their ceiling is low, teams that have the mental fortitude to fight back when they're down, like the Pistons, can claw back. This is part of the process for a team that's primarily focusing on its rebuild. Rebuilding teams have to take their lumps before progressing into a winner.

The Jazz's veterans can do what they can, but since they want their youngsters to get the necessary experience to develop as winners, said youngsters make rookie mistakes. That's not to say the Jazz nearly blowing this game was completely on their youth- remember Sexton's 10 turnovers tonight - but part of developing a winner is also realizing that winning is not all based on talent but on consistency.

Because the Jazz will lose a lot more games from here, especially if they make do on trading some of their veterans, it's going to be hard to forget a win like this because wins won't come so easily to the Jazz and because of the fashion in which they won.