Mercy Rule (Warriors 104, Jazz 128)

Please let this season be over soon. The good news?  The Warriors lost and the Wizard won — translating into a one-game cushion for our draft position.  If I was smart, I would have watched Wednesday night’s game until the loss was secure — roughly 9 minutes into the first quarter when the team went down by 14 — and called it a night.  Unfortunately, I kept watching. In fairness to the Warriors, things went about as well as everyone expected given the opponent and our current roster.  Don Nelson didn’t have answers for the Jazz and Jerry Sloan when we were fielding our best team in 16 years.  Why should we expect anything different with the motor of that winning team fully dismantled and replaced with a few spare parts culled from the NBA scrap heap.  Sloan went inside early and often to establish the post game.  The Warriors held their ground respectively until Hunter went out with a smashed face.  From that point on, the Jazz scored at will inside.  T...