SUMMARY:  A historically bad shooting night becomes a historically bad margin of deficit for the Utah Jazz

• For the first time in 40 years of Utah Jazz basketball they lost a basketball game by 50 points.

• The 22 points in the 2^nd half is the all-time low for the Jazz franchise

• The 22 points is the 3rd worst half of basketball in Jazz franchise history

• The 29 missed threes are the most three point misses in Jazz history

• The Jazz offensive rating was a 68.1 they have had the worse offensive games the following times since 1996, November 29^th of 2005 they had a 67.1 against the Pacers. 4^th of February in 2000 v. the Lakers the Jazz had an offensive rating of 67.4 and on 16^th of February in 1999 they had a 65.6 offensive rating v. Seattle.

• According to cleaning the glass, the Jazz shot 3 of 21 on non-restricted area 2 point shots and 6 of 35 from three.

• The Jazz were down 6 at the end of the 1^st The Jazz were 10 of 22 and 2 of 8 from three in the first quarter.   The game was tied at 34-34- and the Jazz were down one at 39-38 and then it all fell apart at an incredible level.   Rubio hit a layup with 6:34 and then the Jazz missed 12 straight shots until Rubio made another layup at the 1:33 mark.  The amazing thing is they trailed by just 6.  Barnes and Doncic hit back to back threes and the Jazz were down 12.    However, they hadn’t hit anything.  They were 4 of 18 from 3 and just 17 of 45 overall.  My feeling at this point was shots would start to fall and the game was still there for the Jazz.

• However, the opposite happened. The Jazz open to the third quarter was dreadful.    Donovan took a three and missed, Derrick had a contested corner 3 and missed, Donovan turned it over, Ingles turned it over and then missed a layup.  Like that the Jazz were down 17 in just 2:37 of the quarter.   Then it got worse.  Mitchell missed again and turned it over.  Rubio turned it over, Ingles missed a three, Rubio missed a three and eventually, the Jazz would miss 13 straight threes.

• They were down 25 at the end of 3 and wilted in the 4^th.

• The question is why. I think it is one of those nights shooting.  It happens.  It happened last year on November 10^th Miami.  The 4^th quarter is a rarity that they seemed to completely stop playing with any force.

• Does the 50 point margin matter? Other than ruining all metrics for months I am not certain.

• What does matter is that this is not a naturally good shooting team. The offense is getting the Jazz an incredible amount of looks at the rim and corner 3 and above the break 3.  Going into the night the Jazz were getting the most corner 3s and were 0 for 9 and are now shooting 28% from the corner.   .84 points per shot is not going to get it done.  They rank 28^th in corner 3s.

• We are getting really close to where this is not small sample size theater anymore. This is 18% of the season.  It is not ok to have a fifth of your season where these numbers exist if it is game 1 to 14 or 53 to 67.

• The three point shooting is obvious because it is in the box score and easy to find but the Jazz were also 1 of 13 (not official) on paint non-restricted area 2 point shots. For the season they are 28% this shots in the paint non restricted area.  28% on a 2 point shot.  This is last in the NBA.   Luckily the Jazz don’t take a lot of those as shots but it a shot they take more than the corner 3.

• I have purposely have not discussed individual players. This was a collective effort.  Dallas deserves some credit.   They have won 4 of 5.  The defense has been great in 4 of those 5 games.

• Here is what I find a bit concerning. The 5 jazz player who take the most threes all average 31% or below other than Joe Ingles.   31% is .93 pts per shot if you are average.   The chances are on a night that 2 of those players will be below average.  7% of the time all of them will be below average and then you get a night like tonight.   I felt the same way at the same point of last season so maybe it will be as silly a thought as it was at this point last year.

Utah Jazz post game show on the internet. David Locke and Ron Boone try to figure out what happened tonight and what the significance of the night is for the Utah Jazz

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