SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- To hear the Utah Jazz tell it, the All-Star break couldn't have come at a worse time, even if it did seem like it took forever to get there.
"The biggest thing for us," Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell told the Salt Lake Tribune earlier this week, "is we have to get back to the way we we've been playing before the break. ... We haven't been the same team."
Getting back to that form could be a tall order. Just before the break, the Jazz won 11 straight contests and vaulted themselves into the heat of the Western Conference chase.