It’s really tough to win a game in which you shoot 18 percent from 3 and 56 percent from the free-throw line, but somehow, the Jazz were in pole position to do so in the fourth quarter. But a string of simple mental mistakes cost them.
Mental mistake category one: Ricky Rubio’s fouling. Twice down the stretch, Rubio fouled the Sixers to send them to the charity stripe when he probably didn’t need to: once on a double-down on Joel Embiid that Rudy Gobert probably had covered, then on J.J. Redick with under 90 seconds to go.
Both were sort of understandable from a certain perspective.