Jazz Thunderstruck in Oklahoma City, lose 111-85.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Based on recent happenings, it's possible the Washington Wizards suddenly circled Friday on their calendar.

Heck, the University of Utah men's basketball team could show up at EnergySolutions Arena that night, too.

The Utah Jazz are down, and there might not be a better time to take advantage of that.

A three-games-in-three-nights road trip that began with such promise Sunday in Memphis ended with a thundering thud Tuesday when Oklahoma City put a size 111-85 boot on the Jazz's backend and booted them back to Utah.

"It is the third night of a back-to-back-to-back," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. "Everybody is a little tired and we ran out of gas."

And, yes, he was talking about playing on fumes Tuesday in Oklahoma City, not Monday in New Orleans.

It might sound strange to some, but the Jazz were still lamenting Monday's demoralizing loss in New Orleans even more than they bemoaned their biggest blowout defeat of the year.

It's one thing to get thunderstruck by the NBA's best team, especially considering OKC has Kevin Durant (21 points), Russell Westbrook (16 points, five rebounds, four assists) and sixth-man-of-the-year candidate James Harden (22 points).

On top of that, the Thunder hadn't played since trouncing the Jazz in Utah by 14 points on Friday and rested while Corbin's club was off on the lockout-special tripleheader.

There's also that little matter of how injury-plagued New Orleans had four wins and about that many recognizable players when Utah came to town.

"I think (Monday) night's more disappointing than this one," Jazz guard Earl Watson said. "(That one) could've gave us a nice two out of three on the road. That would've been great, but we let it slip away."

As Corbin predicted, Durant & Co. showed no mercy to their road-weary visitors Tuesday at Chesapeake Energy Arena.

It didn't help the Jazz's cause that they showed no mercy to the rim and air around the basketball standard to begin the game.

Utah made one of its first 16 shots to quickly fall behind by 12 points.

The Jazz trimmed the lead to three — thanks mostly to the early hot hand of Al Jefferson, who had 11 of his team-high 15 in the first quarter.