Both the Utah Jazz and Thunder come into Sunday’s meeting in Oklahoma City coming off blowout losses.
For the Jazz, Friday’s 124-90 loss in New Orleans was an anomaly.
Utah hadn’t been beaten by more than 20 points this season and hadn’t suffered a worse loss since November 2018.
The loss, which snapped a three-game winning streak and was just the Jazz’s second in 11 games, brought up some conflicting emotions.
“We’re upset,” Utah’s Donovan Mitchell said. “But we’re not gonna overreact to this one game.”
Rudy Gobert said the game should be looked up as a wake-up call.
“There’s a lot of things we need to look at on both ends,” Gobert said. “None of us enjoyed losing that way.”
Jazz coach Quin Snyder played it both ways.
“Out of 82 (games), there are gonna be nights like this,” Snyder said. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the game and understand that there are things we can do better.”
Among those, Snyder said, was getting out in transition and attacking the glass.
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