With 7:17 left in the fourth quarter of their contest against the Golden State Warriors, the Utah Jazz had piled on a 99.5% chance of winning according to ESPN's win probability metric.

The Jazz were up 16 points and had possession of the basketball at that point. It's possible the Warriors don't even score 16 points with just about half a quarter remaining. And yet Utah somehow managed to get outscored by 20 points the rest of the way to fall, 111-107.

Donovan Mitchell was vocal on yet another Jazz letdown after the game. The three-time All-Star harped on his team not wallowing on the defeats, but instead using the stumbles as motivation to not let it happen again.

Via Eric Walden of The Salt Lake City Tribune:

“We have a group of guys — including myself — where it’s gonna feel good when we figure it out,” he said. “So, we can sit here and feel sorry for ourselves or we can use it as fuel. And I think we have a group of guys who want to do that. Yeah, we messed up. We’ve messed up fourth quarters 14 times, 15 times — how do we respond, how do we adjust? That’s really where I’m at, that’s where we’re at. We’ll figure it out.”

The Jazz went scoreless for over five minutes and didn't make another field goal until the 1:22 mark when Mike Conley made a driving layup. By that point, their 16-point advantage had evaporated as the Warriors already managed to take the lead.

Right after the 7:17 mark, Utah's next possessions resulted in nine straight misses with four turnovers sprinkled in throughout that stretch. Golden State took full advantage by connecting on six straight unanswered three-pointers during that stretch, with four coming from Klay Thompson.

Mitchell, meanwhile, went scoreless in the final frame. The Jazz star went 0-for-4 from the field while committing a turnover and a foul in the game's final 7:38.

“I missed two easy layups. Growing pains. It sucks — straight up. But I’ll figure it out,” Mitchell said. “I haven’t been great all year in these moments. But this is what drives you, figuring stuff out like this. I will.”

Mike Conley Jr. spoke out after the game as well. The Jazz veteran tied Donovan Mitchell for a team-high 26 points. The difference was Conley was a +13 on the floor while Mitchell was a -21.

“Each game is different, we’ve had different things happen, but I think collectively, there has to be a calm, a sense of, ‘These are the things we’re going to do and execute with four minutes to go,’ and key in on that and do it,” the Jazz veteran said after the game.

“It’s not time to be free, time to be loose, time to relax, time to turn the ball over — we have to really think the game and almost slow it down mentally for all of us, and get all five guys collectively with that mindset.”

The Utah Jazz have had a wealth of experience playing together the past handful of seasons. There's more than enough reason to believe that this has just been a temporary bump in the road, one they can hopefully get past come playoff time.