The Utah Jazz may have dropped 123 points on the Sacramento Kings on opening night, but their uneven performance doesn’t exactly inspire confidence heading into a showdown with the Golden State Warriors. Not only will the Jazz have to re-engage their team defense to keep pace with Golden State, but they’ll need to have some big-time individual efforts across the board.
Perhaps no Jazzman came up bigger in Sac-Town than Joe Ingles. The Aussie scored 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting, hit four threes and added six assists and four steals in the game. A repeat performance would do wonders for Utah against the defending world champions.