The Jazz defended the arc well and the Warriors shot 9-of-30 from deep (30 percent). Because the Warriors have Kevin Durant. On a night Curry and Thompson were cold, in one of the most hostile environments he had seen all season, Durant owned Utah on the pick-and-roll all game.
Consider how quickly Manny Machado went from wunderkind of the diamond to baseball bad-boy in just a few years time. Machado has had a few issues in the past — mainly that time in 2014 when he threw his bat toward third base after a couple of brush-back pitches against the Oakland A’s. Once Machado found himself at the center of baseball drama this week, as the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles cranked things up to rap beef-level.
Rudy Gobert was a monster, Gordon Hayward was on his game, and it still didn’t matter. Few teams can overcome their two-time MVP struggling against an elite defense, but we all know the Warriors aren’t most teams. Stephen Curry started 2-of-14 from the field, but fellow MVP Kevin Durant was a beast