SALT LAKE CITY — After a game-high 35-points in a double-overtime performance, Donovan Mitchell couldn’t help but think, if he’d just been patient for a couple more seconds at the end of the first overtime, there wouldn’t have been any need for a second overtime and the Jazz could have won.
Nikola Jokic had just evened the score, 117-117, at the free-throw line, the result of a play that saw Rudy Gobert foul out of the game. With the shot clock turned off, just past half court Mitchell dribbled out the clock — 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7 — and with 6.