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EMPTYING THE NOGGIN – Thunder are vastly improved and it showed
SUMMARY: The Thunder use stifling defense, a re-built roster and Paul George excellence to blow out the Utah Jazz
- The final score was a nine point game but it was not close. The Thunder lead by 29 points after scoring 42 3rd quarter points to blow the game out.
- This is Jazz centric but before we go there let me say the Thunder are a considerably better team than the team the Jazz played in the playoffs. Jerami Grant is much better than Carmelo Anthony and Dennis Schroder is an enormous upgrade to Raymond Felton. Nerlens Noel is a much better back up center than whomever they stuck in to that role last year. A team plays 240 minutes a night and they are better in significant way at 75 of them. That is a big deal. They haven’t played many good teams yet but there is a reason they are 13-1 against sub .500 teams. They are much better than sub .500 teams. This is a homecourt advantage team in the West.
- The Jazz have been turning the ball over and the Thunder are the best in the NBA at forcing turnovers and sure enough the Jazz turned it over 20 times tonight.
- The game was 12-10 when Rudy Gobert got called for a questionable 2nd foul and the Thunder took over the game on an immediate 8 to 2 run and the Jazz never got back in the game.
- To score on the Thunder you have to get off the ball and really move it. The Jazz had 30 assists tonight and shot 51%. As the night went on they got more and more comfortable scoring and figuring out how to get shots.
- Paul George was great . He took 10 shots and scored 31 points. He was 5 of 6 from three. He was 10 of 12 from the line. I was a little confused to why our guys continued to give him space to shoot the three point shot.
- Westbrook couldn’t shoot tonight at all. He was 4 of 18 and at one point didn’t hit the rim on a 15 footer. He stopped shooting for a while at that point, Then he was passing for assists. He finished with a triple double.
- Steven Adams is a beast, he had 6 offensive rebounds.
- Thunder looked like the far better team tonight. They are playing well and taking advantage of a soft schedule to get confidence. The Jazz haven’t had many nights were anything but 100% is going to be sufficient and they seem a little rattled in the confidence department.
The Jazz fell short in the second half as the Toronto defense shut the new-look Jazz down in route to cruising to an 114 – 82 Raptors victory. Lauri Markkanen shined for the Jazz with 20 points and 5 rebounds but the Raptors length and athleticism proved to be too much for the Jazz riding a dominant 3rd quarter to pull away from the Jazz who played well in the first half, only trailing by one.
Relive the game through the radio highlights. Voiced by Leif Thulin.
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Utah Jazz trade Rudy Gobert – the emotions, the decision making, what did we get and what now
The Utah Jazz traded Rudy Gobert on Friday after a 4th of July weekend to soak in the biggest news of the NBA trade season we try to digest what it means for the Utah Jazz. David Locke, radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider, take a look at all angles of the Rudy Gobert trade. The emotions of losing one of your own and a beloved player like Rudy Gobert. The player that we knew how great he was and had to argue on his behalf and now someone else gets the pleasure. Locke revisits the decision making tree of the Utah Jazz and how they got to trading Rudy Gobert and why they took this trade rather than other options that may have been on the table for the Utah Jazz. Then Locke looks into what did we really get in this trade and what are the possibilities of benefit for trading one of the great players in franchise history. A look at each of the 5 first round picks and what they could become and the margin starts to expand the farther out you go. Then are the Utah Jazz re-building? Why now would be the question. That is a decision that the Jazz don’t need to make for the some time. Summer league kicks off today and what are the Utah Jazz looking for and who could make an impression. What the Jazz want to see from Jared Butler Locked On Jazz Podcast 💻 https://www.lockedonjazz.net/ 🎧 LockedOnJazz.com https://buff.ly/2FEZTVY 🎧 Apple https://apple.co/3Dc8QBq 🎧 Spotify https://spoti.fi/3IfvgVX 🎧Stitcher https://bit.ly/3pkGyzB 🎧 Google https://bit.ly/3I8TwJz
NBA Free Agency is day is here for the Utah Jazz. What can we expect to take place? Will the Utah Jazz make a trade? Is this the day Rudy Gobert or Mike Conley or Donovan Mitchell gets traded? Do the Jazz have a free agency move to be made? David Locke, radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA insider take a look at all of these questions and gives you the free agency primer. Is the market drying up on the Utah Jazz? The Clippers and Wizards have already made moves and the Atlanta Hawks have used their draft capital. Rumors continue with Rudy Gobert at the forefront and we take a look at what those deals might be for the Utah Jazz and what would have to be included to make a deal happen. Then a look at the Utah Jazz options at the tax payer mid level contractsand what the Jazz current roster looks like and what could take place. Locked On Jazz Podcast 💻 https://www.lockedonjazz.net/ 🎧 LockedOnJazz.com https://buff.ly/2FEZTVY 🎧 Apple https://apple.co/3Dc8QBq 🎧 Spotify https://spoti.fi/3IfvgVX 🎧Stitcher https://bit.ly/3pkGyzB 🎧 Google https://bit.ly/3I8TwJz