Did they give up or were they just not as good at the Jazz? They seemed to be one step slow on defense and offense. I think it was mostly a talent and experience deficiency rather than an effort deficiency.
great post. Utah is a damn good team and they have a damn good coach and personnel to match, they whooped Houston on their homecourt in the playoffs game 2 of the series without their starting PG Ricky Rubio -- their not some appropriate measuring stick to measure this Kings team against, utah when firing on all cylinders can make you look very bad, exposed even, and it's just like you said a step slow on offense or defense.
I like a boxing term "beat to the punch" Utah is the type of team who u let them consistently beat u to the punch -- it's gonna get ugly.
Utah has become increasingly more difficult to beat with the emergence of D. Mitchell too, who's a legit young star in this league.