A season-high 28 points from forward Terrence Jones wasn’t enough to save the Santa Cruz Warriors on Saturday night.

Nor were the 28 points that two-way guard Quinn Cook provided.

The slumping G League Warriors were low on assists, high on turnovers and over the top on physical play in their foul-riddled, 122-113 loss to host Northern Arizona.

Santa Cruz led by 17 points in the third quarter. It marks the fifth time this season it has lost a game it has led by 16 or more points.

Much of the 1,909 fans gathered at the Prescott Valley Event Center might have thought they were witnessing an MMA event. A total of 61 personal fouls and four technicals — two against each team — were called.

Jones, who also had seven rebounds and three assists in his first start since Jan. 5, fouled out with 40 seconds left. Santa Cruz was called for 35 personal fouls.

The Suns (15-18), made 42 of 54 free-throw attempts and the Warriors made 27 of 41. Jones made 10 of 18 attempts and teammate Damion Lee made 10 of his 11 attempts to finish with 19 points in 34 minutes off the bench.

Santa Cruz, averaging a league-best 26.4 assists, finished with just 17 to go along with 21 turnovers — nearly twice the number Warriors coach Aaron Miles is comfortable with seeing on his post-game stat sheet.

Cook made five of his team’s six 3-pointer, but it was a rough night from beyond the arc. The Warriors made six of 22 attempts while the Suns, one of the league’s top perimeter scoring teams, made eight of 24 attempts.

Alex Hamilton added 15 points off the bench for Santa Cruz. Fellow reserve Chris Boucher, a two-way forward who continues to see his minutes increase since returning from knee surgery last season, had nine points, a team-high 11 rebounds and four blocks in 26 minutes.

The Warriors (18-16) sit in third place in the Pacific Division with 16 games remaining in the regular season. They play at Salt Lake City on Tuesday at 6 p.m., where it’ll be a reunion between Utah Jazz two-way player Georges Niang, who averaged 18.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists with Santa Cruz earlier this season. Niang, a 6-8, 230-pound forward out of Iowa State, signed with Utah on Jan. 14. The Warriors are 2-5 since his departure.

“Georges was a big part of us, what we was doing,” Miles said on Jan. 28. “He averaged 18 and seven. Even more so, his impact was huge. You lose that, his impact as far as locker room, on the court, his playmaking ability, things like that. At the same time, you’ve got guys stepping up, playing hard to fill in the void. But at the same time, we haven’t had Terrence Jones playing and guys are still getting used to playing with each other. Guys are coming back into the fold. We’ve got to figure this out. We got to re-aim the chemistry of things. But it’s going to come.”

It was the second of four meetings between the Warriors and Suns this season. They next play in Santa Cruz on on Feb. 28.

In the teams’ first meeting on Dec. 12, the Warriors endured their worst drubbing of the season, losing 138-94 on the road. Xavier Silas made seven of his team’s 23 3-pointers in that game as the Suns launched 50 attempts from beyond the arc.

Silas scored 27 on Saturday. Teammate Archie Goodwin, a forward, led the way with 31 points and nine rebounds. Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson added 23 points and six rebound and reserve Mike Young had 20 points and 13 rebounds.