We’ll get to the bad circumstances later, but the performances of everyone else besides Rudy Gobert on the roster don’t deserve to be overshadowed by something that happened in the first three minutes of the game.
The Jazz played excellent defense tonight on James Harden, Chris Paul, and Clint Capela. Just terrific defense. After 11 games against the Rockets, the Jazz really did seem like they had every answer for what Houston was trying to do, and then they were baited into mistakes time and time again.
The Jazz know Paul well enough to know that he rarely takes contested layups at this stage of his career.