The Jazz crawled back. On two bad offensive possessions, the Kings fouled Utah players in the backcourt; the Jazz were in the penalty. So Utah caught up the easy way: open shots from the field, open shots from the line. Meanwhile, the Kings went into their prevent offense — slow it way down, let Brooks or Evans try to create, suffer the humiliation. The only two good possessions in that spell saw Cousins draw a foul in the post and saw Thornton hit the nastiest, coldest tying three we've seen this season. The rest? Slop.

Then some crazy happened. With 30 seconds left, a 102-102 tie and the ball, the Kings took a 20-second timeout. Out of that stoppage, the Kings ran this play: Brooks kills clock at the top of the key (about 18 seconds worth) then drives left on Jamaal Tinsley without a screen, trying to create something. He creates a turnover. Tinsley stripped him clean. (There was some contact with Tinsley's off arm, but c'mon.) Jazz ball. Timeout.

This team is really something else.

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