The Jazz played nearly 48 minutes of excellent basketball on Saturday night, and still lost. That’s a credit to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the importance of shot-making in the NBA, and the brutal reality that factors out of the Jazz’s control play a large part in every game.
We’ll get more into what the Jazz did well later, but suffice it to say that the Jazz had all of the above go against them in the fourth quarter:
2. A missed call on Russell Westbrook that would have been his sixth foul, and sent Donovan Mitchell to the line.