Utah Jazz at Los Angeles Clippers Game Thread: Can Gordon Hayward get us three in a row?

For the third time this season the Utah Jazz will tangle with the Los Angeles Clippers. By now you know the deal -- they are good, in a big market, have marketable players, and have been really good at home. And they will get all the love from the refs. All things considered equal, they have a more talented roster -- but I think our guys (at full strength) can hang with them. After all, this season we've beaten a number of good teams, like both teams who went to the NBA Finals six months ago. And for some strange reason this year we aren't horrible on the road. Anything can happen.

Probability dictates it.

The NBA refs probably won't, though.

Starters:

• Point Guard: Trey Burke vs. Chris Paul
• Shooting Guard: Rodney Hood vs. J.J. Redick
• Small Forward: Gordon Hayward vs. Matt Barnes
• Power Forward: Enes Kanter vs. Blake Griffin
• Center: Derrick Favors vs. DeAndre Jordan

Bench:

• Dante Exum vs. Jordan Farmar
• Joe Ingles vs. Jamal Crawford
• Trevor Booker vs. Glen Davis
• Rudy Gobert vs. Spencer Hawes

Injuries:

• Alec Burks (UTA) -- Out
• Spencer Hawes (LAC) -- Probable

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