Wrap-Up -- A young, shorthanded squad like the Wine & Gold simply doesn’t have the luxury of playing well for 24 minutes. They learned that lesson the hard way on Friday night.
Cleveland and Utah went toe-to-toe for one half of basketball, but the Jazz hit another gear after intermission – leaving the Cavaliers in the dust and sending them to their eighth straight defeat, taking the 117-91 decision on Friday night at The Q.
The Cavaliers were stingy defensively through the first stanza and led by a point heading into halftime. But the Jazz would proceed to outscore them, 69-42, over the final two quarters to pull away for the win.