Road kill again

There were just some horribly ugly stats for the Jazz in their horribly ugly 116-96 loss in Oakland tonight.

They lost an important road game – every game is now important, and especially with a showdown with the Lakers on the horizon – to a Golden State team that only had 16 wins coming in. That dropped Utah out of the No. 8 spot in the playoff race and lowered their road record to 9-17.

They were outshot 51.9 percent to 41.8 percent.

They had 17 turnovers to only eight for the Warriors.

Utah’s depleted bench – which was even missing Kyrylo Fesenko – was outscored 44-20.

I didn’t get a chance to watch or hear the postgame interview with Jerry Sloan – somebody’s got to man the sports desk – but I can’t imagine the Jazz coach was at all pleased with one other stat.

That being: The Jazz took 19 3-pointers and missed 14 of them. Ugh.

Sloan has often said he doesn’t dislike that shot – if, that is, his players hit them and take them in the flow of the offense when rebounders are in place.

Apparently, I did miss the only highlight of the game for Utah. I turned my head to copy edit another sports story while watching from the office when somebody informed me Deron Williams dunked the ball.

I’ve been saying for months that I’ll know Williams is finally back to full strength or close to it when he goes up and slams one in. It came after the Jazz were all but beaten and down 20-plus points, so I’m not so sure he’s all the way back health-wise. I think he was just a bit ticked off at that point.