Friendly Warriors fan and former Jazz fan here from the stockton/malone and mark eaton era. I lived in Sandy for a few years in the 90's - helped clean up the giant styrofoam insulation cubes ripped off the then-named Delta Center roof in the tornado aftermath...
Anyway, The Jazz are an awesome team. You guys should be proud. Not only did they almost win, they acted like they expected to win. It was awesome to watch. They have a rightful swagger.
Ingles is awesome. Rubio is really good. Gobert is amazing. They play the warriors style of ball (to my eyes) just about as good. They match up with the warriors about as good as anyone.
But man, the fans there in the arena formerly known as the delta center... they rip the opposing team worse than Philly or Boston. Just Nasty. I don't know what it is - I mean - there are a lot of LDS that attend, and you can tell who they are (I'm LDS, on the bishopric of a ward here in NZ... I can say this) and they just go from nice to maniacally brutal in an instant, shouting the most racist things, and you can hear it in the webstreams. What gives? Even when I lived there, and went, It was just weird to me. Booing opposing players is natural, but some of the things I hear from them are brutal to a degree I dont hear in other arenas, except maybe boston sometimes.
Anyway, what a game.