Riding lofty expectations straight into this season, reasonable people’s natural response to the Jazz’s slow start, initially at least, was to match the reaction with that start. Slow on slow.
One fourth of the regular season is over. And the Jazz are still playing skittish, inconsistent basketball, most recently losing on Monday night at home to the Pacers by … what’s this, 33 points? Overall, they’re playing casually, sloppily, carelessly, imprecisely. They’re playing with hands and feet and heads of stone, turning the ball over, shooting it as though they’re heaving lumber into a railcar.
That’s plain for anyone unwilling to blow sunshine here, there and everywhere to see.