The Jazz remain a work in progress

Utah lost a series it ought to have won, and its big bet this season failed. But the story isn't completed just yet. There's still time for success.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

Sure, in a series where the average score has been 121-115, in a series in which two different players have each scored 50 points in a single game two different times, the Game 7 turns into a defensive boxing match with a final score 80-78. Sure. That happened.

But what also happens is a tidy microcosm of what went wrong fo…