Jazz beat the Cavs 123-112. The duo of Keyonte George and Lauri Markkanen continues to be really, really impressive... they both shot 8-16 tonight in leading the Jazz to a win. The win moves the Jazz to a three-way tie in the tank race for now in the 7/8/9 slots.

The Cavs are so disjointed. They're not getting back in transition, and have no idea what defensive matchups are even after a FT. Their offense is mud. Less than the sum of their parts for sure.

Cavs up 62-54 at the half. Jazz started the game up 21-4, but have turned the ball over way too often since: they have 14 1H turnovers.

I wish the Jazz would more often explore the happy medium between "resting all of the vets and losing by 55" and "playing Ace Bailey only 6 minutes per half while DNP-CDing Walter Clayton and Taylor Hendricks".

Now that the Jazz have found that Markkanen, Nurkic, and Mykhailiuk are healthy, they lead the Cavaliers 19-4 in Cleveland.

Hornets beat Jazz 150-95. It's the worst loss in Utah Jazz history — though the New Orleans Jazz lost by 56 once. Scattered boos at the Delta Center as the game ends. Jazz head to Cleveland to play Donovan Mitchell and the Cavs next.

Remarkably, the Hornets have a 61% OREB percentage tonight, which means that when they miss a shot, they're more likely to get the offensive rebound than the Jazz are to get the defensive rebound. By a 19-12 margin. That shouldn't happen, ever.

Jazz are getting doubled up at a pretty late point in proceedings. It's 111-55, Hornets over the Jazz.

Theoretical Taylor Hendricks should be able to make an impact in this starting lineup with on-ball iso and off-ball rim protection defensively and spacing and cutting offensively... and unfortunately reality Taylor Hendricks is just invisible. 1/0/0/0/0 so far.

8-0 run by the Jazz, punctuated by a buzzer-beating layup by Collier, saves them ignominy! They're only down 39 to the Hornets at halftime, meaning that was only the second-worst first half in team history! Score is 77-38.

The most the Jazz have ever lost a first half by was 40 points... in 2019, they were down 77-37 to the Raptors. Jazz are down 46 points to the Hornets with 2:51 left 2Q.

Jazz are down 74-28. To the Charlotte Hornets.

There's some booing here in the Delta Center as the Hornets hit another shot. Look, if the Jazz's youth wants to stay in the NBA in the post-tanking era, they simply have to show the Jazz and the other 29 NBA teams better efforts than this.

No Markkanen, Nurkic, or Bailey, and the Jazz are getting killed tonight by the Hornets. They're down 36-8 already.

Jazz say Ace Bailey (hip strain) and Lauri Markkanen (rest) are out vs. Charlotte tomorrow. Jusuf Nurkic is questionable.

Jazz beat Mavs 116-114. 33 points for Markkanen, 14-26 shooting. George and Sensabaugh were also great. Ryan Smith goes to Jason Kidd after the game and hugs him, they're having a lengthy postgame conversation. Charlotte next.

For the second time this game, Anthony Davis is injured. This time, he's holding his hand, and Jason Kidd calls timeout.

Cooper Flagg just hit a turnaround corner 3 with 0.5 on the shot clock that was as good of a shot I've seen in this building this year. We'll see if it holds up on replay.

Jazz up 58-55 at the half on the Mavs. Another really good defensive half from the Jazz, they've really bounced back since the ugly Portland game.

Think that was one of the best stretches of the Jazz's season... down 19 early 2Q to OKC, reason to pack it in... then they fought to get it back within 5 by halftime.

Honestly would be curious to see what Walter Clayton would look like in the starting SG slot, that lineup has been really good tonight and in general Clayton's been a significant +/- positive

Blazers beat the Jazz 137-117. Was never close, Jazz just got outworked, outhustled, and outplayed by the Blazers tonight. They'll play a reeling OKC on Wednesday. See you then!

We're down to a 138 DRTG after the Blazers' garbage time squad has struggled to score in the 4th, so #worstgameeverwatch is off

Jazz have a 155 defensive rating so far tonight — if that continued, it would be the worst Jazz defensive performance in a game in team history. Previous high is 150.

Blazers largest halftime lead this season, they're up by 21 on the Jazz. Technical foul on Will Hardy as he complains to Ed Malloy on his way to the locker room.

The mostly-healthy/available Jazz should not be struggling this much to a pretty average Blazers team. Jazz down 56-37, 6:18 left 2Q.

Nurkic gets a nice ovation from the Blazers fans as he's announced in the Jazz's starting lineup.

Jazz on-court/off-court net ratings this season:

Warriors beat Jazz 123-114. I thought that was an interesting one... GSW figured out how to attack Jazz D and never really looked back. It's interesting to think about how this team would look with a healthy Kessler. Portland next.

Warriors up 119-108 on the Jazz, 4:45 left. Jazz have been trying to come back... but just cannot get any stops at all. A center rotation of Love/Filipowski is just so porous inside.

It's cool how the Warriors at Chase Center don't play songs on every possession, which allows their fans to start chants during games

This felt like the only way the Warriors were going to win this game: Steph Curry going berserkers. He has 18 points in the 3Q alone, going to the line for 20. 2:20 left.

Jazz up 65-58 on the Warriors at the half. Lauri Markkanen (21) and Keyonte George (15) are carrying the Jazz here, they've been awesome. Jazz have kept Steph in check, too, he's shooting 2-7 FG.

Also: Steph Curry just applauded Bill Kennedy for the explanation on the coaches challenge.

Props to Jelks and Cutler for doing what a lot of refs haven't historically done and giving Green the techs he deserves, though. He's been held to a different standard on that

Completely unserious behavior from Draymond, honestly. Wants a 3-second call, doesn't get it. Fine. But he stopped playing defense in the middle of the play, then got himself kicked out on two separate technicals. On a second quarter play with nothing building up to it.

Draymond gets a tech for screaming at referee Simone Jelks... AND now he gets ejected by Kevin Cutler!!

Cody Williams' confidence at a whole new level since coming back from the G-League, that was a punctuating poster over Post.

Clippers beat Jazz 118-101. Close til the 4th, when it became one team's best player was Kawhi Leonard (45 points) and the other team's best player was either Kyle Anderson (22) or Brice Sensabaugh (20) or Isaiah Collier (18/10). Golden State up next, Saturday. See you then!

No longer a close game, as Kawhi Leonard just decided to take over (along with some pretty iffy contests from the Jazz defense). Clippers up 105-94, 5:53 left.

Career high 18 points for Cody Williams with 8:56 left to play. He's even 2-4 from three tonight! (Was 3-29 from deep before today.)

I know the Clippers have been playing better lately, but if they lose at home to Utah w Markkanen and George both out they need to disband

Jazz down 82-81 going into the 4th. Neither team can really buy a three, but the Jazz are waltzing into the paint and scoring with ease anyway. The Clippers are living through mostly tough Harden/Leonard shots. Weird game.

Jazz only down 53-50 at the half. Kyle Anderson's been sensational: 16 points, 8 rebounds, a +17. After the worst possible start, the Jazz's second unit came in and really solidified things here.

We have Will Hardy's second angry timeout of the game already as the Jazz are down 16-0. The fact that the Jazz are getting just blanked in the first quarter of these road games over and over again has now circled back around to funny, after previously being just sad.

The Intuit Dome remains absolutely siiiiick, honestly think it's pretty much a must see if you're a basketball fan with the ability to travel to a road game

Celtics beat Jazz 129-119. Keyonte George put up 37/7/6. Jusuf Nurkic had 26/8/8 on 10-11 FG, his best Jazz game. Four players were +/- positive: George, Nurk, Markkanen, Hendricks. Sensabaugh really struggled... 2-9 FG, but still played 39 minutes. Svi was a DNP-CD.

Jazz up 64-59 on the Celtics at the half. Keyonte George has 23. Legitimately trying to think of what All-Star he's playing most like now. Book maybe? Maxey?

Keyonte George isn't just better than he was last season, he's better than he was last month. 15 points in 1Q. He's averaging 27/7/5 on 64% true shooting this month. A super high level of play.

This *may* be just a tonight thing, I do not know, but: For the first time this season, there is no overhead cable cam in front of me at the Delta Center, nor no cable cam operator to my left. It appears to have been removed?