SALT LAKE CITY — Three thoughts on the Jazz's 100-92 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers from KSL.com's Utah Jazz beat writer, Andy Larsen.

1. This game displayed some of the best the Jazz can be

This game was a really good example of why analysts around the league are excited about the potential of a fully-healthy Jazz squad.

On offense, the healthy Jazz are an adaptive machine. Take a look at the third quarter as an example: the Cavs went on a 19-2 run to begin the third because they came out of halftime with a new defensive scheme. That scheme was to blitz every pick and roll, forcing the Jazz into passing the ball into dangerous spaces and getting it out of the hands of their best ball-handlers, George Hill, Gordon Hayward and Joe Ingles. The Jazz had finished the first half with four 3-point shots, two assisted by Hill.

"No matter," the Jazz said, "we'll just adapt." Joe Ingles came into the power forward position for Derrick Favors. That meant that when the Cavs sent two players to double team the ballhandler on screens, the Jazz had three options to pass it out to, which gave the home team a temporary 4-on-3 advantage. From there, it's just a matter of making the passes to find the open player for an open look.

Eventually, it got to the point where the Jazz just faked the screen, and they got open looks. Like, look how easy this is:

This feels too easy, Cavs: pic.twitter.com/TzeP90sjD6 — Andy Larsen (@andyblarsen) January 11, 2017

This is wide, wide, wide open. It's the kind of shot you want your offense to generate. They were able to do this because of the spacing that having a shooter at the four provides.

And honestly, you just expect better from a championship-level defense. Like, what is this?

This feels too easy, Cavs #2: pic.twitter.com/SpqMLhiUcK — Andy Larsen (@andyblarsen) January 11, 2017

I get that it's in semi-transition, but, come on, Cleveland. You're better than this.

"People have been really aggressive in how they try to play pick-and-roll, and when that happens our tendency has been to hold the ball a count too long, one dribble too long," Quin Snyder said. "When somebody commits to the ball, you've done your job."

2. Jazz defense frighteningly good

On defense, the Jazz are just terrifying when they have the right personnel in. It starts with the pairing of George Hill and Rudy Gobert, which just doesn't give the offense space to attack, thanks to the length of Gobert (wingspan: 7-foot-9) and Hill: (wingspan: 6-foot-9).

Look at Kyrie Irving's line tonight to get an idea of how impactful that is: 5-18 shooting, only four assists, three turnovers. Pretty, pretty good.

Coming into the season and looking at the Jazz's defense, the biggest weakness that you might be able to come up with is the lack of a wing perimeter stopper. To slow, you know, the LeBron Jameses of the world.

Enter Joe Ingles. No one on the Jazz will publicly admit how loony this is, but Joe Ingles, an Australian man who has been nicknamed "Slow-mo Joe" by the team's broadcast crew, is stopping players of all types with his defensive prowess. The Jazz switched him onto LeBron James in the second quarter, and it was a major part of the Jazz only allowing 12 points in the second quarter, the Cavs' lowest-scoring quarter of the season.

Like, look at this! Jingles just backpedals, keeps his hands high, and just uses his body's size and strength to impede James from getting a good look. This is terrific defense.

Joe Ingles isolation defense on LeBron: pic.twitter.com/U1i0ds30lg — Andy Larsen (@andyblarsen) January 11, 2017

"He's pesky," Snyder said. "That activity, particularly with his length, he's big. That coupled with some urgency. He's guarded four positions."

Rodney Hood and Gordon Hayward also played nice defense in the game, especially when switched out on Irving and Love.

"If our wings can guard like that, that makes us good defensively, it makes us really good," Snyder concluded.

3. Rotational hints

With 15 healthy players, the hardest questions for Snyder are now about which of the players to put out on the floor, rather than how his team can make do with a limited crew. We got some hints tonight about what he thinks about his roster, at least for the time being.

For one, 10 players played tonight. Dante Exum, Alec Burks, and Jeff Withey received Did Not Play - Coach's Decisions, and Raul Neto and Joel Bolomboy were on the inactive list. There still may be an opportunity for Exum and Burks to get minutes, though, as Shelvin Mack only played 8:52, and the Jazz played a few minutes without a point guard in the fourth. Both Exum and Burks are candidates to receive time in the D-League as they recover from their long-term injuries and, in Exum's case, improve.

Boris Diaw played only 2:28 tonight, whereas Trey Lyles played 17:28. This made a lot of sense because of how the Cavaliers were guarding the Jazz (see the first play above for an example), and Lyles paid off the trust the coaching staff showed in him. The big man started the game 0-5 from the 3-point line, but made his last two in the fourth quarter to push the Jazz to victory.

Ingles was great, as mentioned above, even enough to play minutes at the four despite the Jazz's depth there. Joe Johnson struggled shooting the ball, but still had a nice touch pass to Derrick Favors late.

In the end, the depth wasn't needed much tonight. With yesterday fully off and canceling shootaround this morning, the Jazz's main players had enough juice to seal the win with solid minutes throughout. Come back-to-backs, and should injury strike again, they'll be forced to rely on it again. It's a good problem to have.

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