Less than 24 hours after praising the Utah Jazz for being on the cusp of becoming something special, they decided to prove every good thing I had written about them wrong with an appalling performance against Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder. In what should have been an intriguing match-up between the rising Jazz and the battle-tested Thunder, Durant’s return to the court proved too much for the Jazz who were absolutely devastated by a score of 111-89.
The Jazz have had bad quarters in a number of contests this year and the second quarter has particularly seemed to plague them.