The Utah Jazz (6-1) will begin their short southern U.S. road trip against the Atlanta Hawks (4-4). The Hawks are on the second game of a back-to-back, having lost 117-108 to the Brooklyn Nets last night. Atlanta has lost three of their previous four games, while Utah has won two straight.
The Hawks have another level they can reach, and the Jazz will need to be careful to take this game seriously. These Hawks aren’t the bottom-feeding version of the team from previous years. This team is just coming off an Eastern Conference Finals run, and they’re hungry to prove that it wasn’t a fluke.