In the first meeting between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets since this past summer’s epic first-round playoff series, you might have expected hyper-competitiveness, back-and-forth scoring pyrotechnics, fiendish aggressiveness. What you got instead, on Sunday night at Ball Arena, was a miscue-riddled, grimy slog. But at least the Jazz emerged from the muck with a 109-105 victory — their fifth win in a row. Quin Snyder said he “didn’t think we had our legs tonight,” on account of residual fatigue from their recently-completed six-game road trip, “but we played through it.”
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