As the Jazz turn now into the playoffs against Oklahoma City on Sunday, The Jazz’s onramp to that second season is less than wide open. It was and then it wasn’t. It isn’t.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport the Jazz were piloting against the Warriors on Tuesday night quickly transformed into a B-210 Datsun on Wednesday against the Blazers. And perhaps the most significant aspect to that sudden change is that the first game didn’t mean much to the opposition, the latter one did.
The most oft-cited number about the Jazz, and the most impressive, is their record from the last week of January until regular season’s end, when they won 29 games and lost six.