It was like they said on the broadcast, when you play a late game on the West Coast and lose an hour flying to Utah at altitude, they're setting you up to fail, I expect the Pels to win by 30 on Monday night with Zion back and the players rested...
In this case just schedule a loss and rest JV and BI too. Resting Zion just creates a domino effect in which injury prone Brandon Ingram plays 37 mins. Utah is a weird team in which their "backups" are fully capable of winning games. Olynyk and Sexton will be traded at some point. Kessler usually starts for them and is a bad matchup for the Pelicans bigs.