SALT LAKE CITY — Victor Wembanyama apparently feels right at home in Utah.

The last time the San Antonio Spurs rising star was in Salt Lake City, he recorded a rare five-by-five. On Tuesday he hung a 30 piece. Heck, the Jazz even seemed to welcome him, with the team’s special NBA Cup court looking much more Spursian than Jazz-esque.

Wembanyama had 34 points and seven rebounds as San Antonio pulled away late for a 128-115 win over the Jazz at the Delta Center.

Wembanyama went 13-of-23 from the field, hitting six 3-pointers and adding seven rebounds and three blocked shots.

But according to Jazz coach Will Hardy, another big performance from Wembanyama was not the reason the Jazz were eliminated from NBA Cup contention on Tuesday.

“I really think we’re going to end up beating ourselves tonight,” Hardy said.

There were two glaring issues he pointed out: turnovers and giving up offensive rebounds.

The Jazz had 21 turnovers, including 12 live-ball giveaways, leading to 33 points for the Spurs; that number is difficult to overcome.

“We have way too many turnovers dribbling into a crowd,” Hardy said. “We have way too many turnovers that are stripped one-on-one, and then we have too many types of pass-and-catch turnovers.”

So the biggest problem when it comes to giveaways is that there isn’t any major problem.

In the third minute of the match, Keyonte George passed the ball out of bounds because John Collins was not looking at the ball.

Brice Sensabaugh, after hitting a heater on a catch-and-shoot in the second quarter, decided to go one-on-one against Chris Paul, which ended with him getting it stolen (Isaiah Collier and George had similar miscues).

Several Jazz players fumbled the ball on seemingly simple catches, leading to quick breakaways.

“It’s an appetizer monster of turnover,” Hardy said. “So it’s been brought up. It will be brought up again and again. I never criticize the man’s intentions, like no one wants to make a turnover, but again, we have to do the little things.”

Sometimes those “little things” are pretty basic: catching with two hands, fake passing and then throwing, and not just randomly going one-on-one for fun.

“I feel like there are times when we get in trouble and things are going well, and we let down some of the things that are the reason why things are going well,” Hardy said. “We’re starting to play a little too much one-on-one. The ball is starting to get stuck a little bit, whereas what got us into that flow is the ball moving.”

However, Hardy is confident that turnover will not be a long-term problem. He said some of it has to do with the youth and some of it is just learning to play together. As for George, who finished with 26 points but six turnovers, Hardy said it’s about figuring out how to read the game better.

Even with turnovers plaguing the team throughout the game, the Jazz still trailed by just 3 points heading into the fourth quarter. But then the second problem arose.

Utah allowed eight offensive rebounds in the final frame, which helped San Antonio pull away at the end.

“There were a few that bounced funny, but there were also way too many where we didn’t cover the free-throw line area,” Hardy said. “That’s an emphasis, I assume, for any NBA team with the number of jump shots that are made. And we just didn’t come up with those shots. … We had too many people under the basket. We didn’t do that. ” got those two guys around the free throw like we needed to.”

And that turned a promising game — the Jazz shot 51% from the field and 37% from 3-point range — into a rout.

“We’ve been our own worst enemy, especially when it comes to recovery and revenue,” Hardy said.

Lauri Markkanen, who finished with 14 points, had to be helped off the field after hitting his knees with Wembanyama late in the match; he didn’t come back. The Jazz said the injury was a left knee contusion.