A bit of a wacky 2nd half.
At the 6:19 mark of 4Q, Knix up 3, and they simply didn't guard Bogdanovch who just walked to the corner unattended but missed a wide open 3.
One early season weakness has been transition D for the Knix.
I'm sure Thibs will work on that.
Then oddly, two plays later UTA just totally fails to place a man near Randle who catches a pass right near the hoop.
Last 7 mins, Jazz missed 6 open 3's. Bogs had 2 wide open looks, Mitch clanked two, Conley another and finally Ingles at 1:25. All good looks. 4 very open.
Donovan tried to rally the Utes. Clarkson, who was their only hot hand, came out of Conley with 3:42 left. Not sure why. (Ingles in for Bogs at the same time made sense)
And Rivers got hot by sinking a tough 3 over Gobert, and then a floater off a very broken play as the shot clock was ending. After that, Rivers was deadly. But the first two that got him rolling weren't easy.
Knix D was good late 3Q -- 2 Mitch blocks -- and early 4Q (Knox block, bottling up Ingles to get a bad pass). But last 6:20 to 1:20 of 4Q UTA had good looks and just clanked. Bogdan really stunk.
Couldn't believe how bad Utah was when Knix inbounded from the baseline. Quinn gonna need to work on that.