Just as the Jazz were trying to get a handle on themselves, trying to make the most of a season of adversity and fluidity and recalibration and, most significantly, necessary change, who rolled into Vivint Smart Home Arena? None other than the mother of all measuring sticks — Golden State’s Warriors, the device by which every NBA team loves/hates to judge itself.
Tuesday night was different, very, very different. And not even Quin Snyder was sure he could see it coming, saying beforehand that the Warriors contest was “another opportunity to have adversity inflicted upon us.”
That’s a brutally candid comment from an honest coach, and typically it would have been absolutely accurate.