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Locke Game Thoughts – Jazz beat Thunder in opener
In the past, I did a feature called Emptying the Noggin. The origins of Emptying the Noggin was that I don’t have good game recall and as a play by play announcer I needed to write down my thoughts after games so I could refer back to them for future broadcasts. For various reasons, I stopped publishing Emptying the Noggin. This year I am going to bring back a condensed version of Emptying the Noggin, with Game Thoughts. These are my notes after a game that I believe are relevant for me to know for future broadcasts. It is not meant to be a game summary or a complete recall of the game. Instead, it is a refresher for me when we play this team again or I need to recall this game. Hope it has some other value for you.
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Opponent: Thunder
Site: Home
Date: 10/20/2021
Quick Thoughts
- Jazz dominate from start to finish. Thunder lead 2-0 and never again. Jazz were up by 10 by the 2:40 mark of the 1st Up 15 by 8:42 2nd quarter and by 20 by 8:10 in the 3rd.
- Dort guards Donovan and Donovan is 4 of 12 when guarded by Dort.
- Jazz do nice job in 3rd quarter running off ball screens to get Donovan switched on the SGA and Donovan has a big third quarter
- Clarkson was electric in the 2nd quarter going 5 for 5 with 15 points
- Rudy had a double double in the first half finished with 21 rebounds and a +20
- Jazz defense was dominant. Didn’t have a quarter with a defensive rating above 100.
- Defensive rating with Rudy on the floor was a 77
- Not a great defensive rebounding effort from the Jazz
- Jazz played a 10-man rotation with Jared Butler coming in during the 2nd and 4th He was jittery in his NBA debut and finished 0 for 5
- Bojan lead the Jazz in scoring with 22 points, as he did in all the games against the Thunder last season as well.
- 6 players in double figures for the Jazz and 5 Jazz players had at least 2 assists and 8 players had an assist.
- Conley guarded SGA for large portions of the game rather than Royce O’Neale and Donovan was matched up with Dort on both sides of the ball
- Josh Giddey made his NBA debut and was marked by Joe Ingles and guarded Joe Ingles for a few possessions.
- Donovan Mitchell and Eric Paschall’s were at mid court after the game taking pictures as the childhood friends were teammates in the NBA for the first time.
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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.
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