A deluge of 3s and a demoralizing deficit.
Those have been the Utah Jazz’s calling card.
But the Jazz got a taste of their own medicine Sunday afternoon, as their 11-game winning streak finally came to an end in a 128-117 road loss to the Denver Nuggets.
Nuggets center Nikola Jokic went off for a career-high 47 points — 22 of them on 9-of-11 shooting in the first quarter — to hand the Jazz their first defeat since Jan. 6 at New York.
“You tip your cap,” Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said, “but at the same time, everybody in our locker room has to believe that we can do better.