The Triple Team: Apparently, the Jazz are out to prove everyone wrong again. On how the Jazz are too good to tank, Walker Kessler's tremendous night and the question of how the Jazz will use this time moving forward.
Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler defends a shot by Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis as the Utah Jazz host the Sacramento Kings, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 20, 2023.Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 128-120 win over the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.I was wrong. I was not alone in my wrongness, but that’s not much of an excuse.
Udoka Azubuike, famously an incredible contributor who always excelled at the little things and never ever looks out of sorts, can play 18 solid minutes with a positive plus-minus, a perfect 13-point performance while adding eight rebounds. He will screen and roll with great timing, he will successfully and forcefully box out the league’s leading rebounder multiple times, and he will excel in a defensive scheme he’s never really played before at the NBA level.
“Nearly three-quarters of the way through the season, the team is 60-61, far exceeding anyone’s expectations, and attendance has begun to improve.” Oh, are the Jazz three-quarters of the way through the season and 35-36, with every game sold out? Yep.
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