Utah Jazz
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Jazz 8 Lakers 3 with 9:45 left in the 1st Quarter
Rudy Gobert dominating around the basket early. Players bypassing shots and then missing
Royce O’Neale has hit two above the break 3s. Surprised. Don’t be Royce is now 16 of 36 (44%)
Jazz 46 Lakers 34 with 6:53 left in the 2nd quarter
Donovan Mitchell with 14 points
Jazz offense is rolling against very good defensive team. Offensive rating is 127 right now
Lakers playing offense in the half court
Jazz 58 Lakers 38 with 1:59 left in the 2nd quarter
Highlights everywhere
Donovan slams on McGee
Donovan blocks Kuzma off the glass
Ingles from Happy Valley for 3
Jazz 62 Lakers 41 at the half
Donovan Mitchell has 19 points and 4 assists. All 4 of Donovan’s assists are for three point shots. Donovan has directly contributed to 31 of the Jazz 61 points in the first half.
Royce O’Neale with 4 three pointers.
Joe Ingles 10 rebounds is a new career high
Jazz 76 Lakers 64 with 3:03 left in the 3rd quarter
Lakers on a 14-5 run. They are getting out and running and crashing offensive glass on the Jazz.
Neither team shooting well. Jazz EFG is 44.9% and Lakers is 39%
Jazz offensive rating is 102 Lakers is 87
Jazz 90 Lakers 73 with 9:12 left in the 4th quarter
Jazz have some huge rebound numbers tonight
Rudy Gobert with 15 Derrick Favors with 13 and Joe Ingles with a career high 12
Speaking of career high Royce O’Neale with 14 points
Jazz 95 Lakers 79 with 6:11 left in the 4th
Donovan Mitchell has 31 points, 6th time this year over 30. Did it 7 times all of last season
Gobert 1 rebound short of a season high with 18
Derrick Favors with season high 13 rebounds
Shooting tonight not good lots of rebounds
Donovan Mitchell has 33 points and 9 assists. His 9 assists were for 25 points, 7 of the 9 were for three pointers. 58 points of the 113 Jazz points
Jazz 113 Lakers 95 – Final Score
Career high and Season high all over the place tonight
Donovan Mitchell career high 9 assists
Joe Ingles career high 12 rebounds
Royce O’Neale 17 points and 5 three pointers
Derrick Favors season high 13 rebounds
Rudy Gobert season high 18 rebs
The Utah Jazz took care of business this weekend and now head out on a crucial east coast road trip. David Locke, the radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider, takes a look at the playoff picture and how it is all playing out plus the Jazz stellar defense against the Brooklyn Nets.
Then Locke breaks down Bradley Beal and how the Jazz have to defend him and what it takes to deal with him. Most importantly, how can Rudy Gobert impact his game.
Utah Jazz radio team post game show after the Utah Jazz blow out the Brooklyn Nets
SUMMARY: The Jazz go a 27 to 2 run from the first quarter to the second and blow out the Brooklyn Nets on their way to a 114-98 win.
- Rudy Gobert was a dominating defensive force tonight that ruined the rhythm of both D’Angleo Russell and Caris LeVert. Gobert’s length has such an impact on the opponents shot selection that players get uncomfortable because they are not talking their normal looks. The Jazz defense has held 7 of the last 10 opponents to under a point a possession
- This game was interesting because both the Nets and Jazz play an analytics heavy game. The Jazz take the 6th most amount of shots at the rim and the 6th most amount of threes for the 4th most amount of “smart” shots at 76% The Nets take the 12th most amount of shots at the rim and the 4th most amount of 3s for the 5th most amount of smart shots at 75%. Now that is fine expect that both teams defensively take the same approach and deny these shots. The Jazz rank 1st at 62.5% and the Nets rank 2nd at 64% at allowing fewest amount of smart shots. So what happens?
- The defenses won out. The Jazz took 29% of their shots as mid range shots compared the their usual 24% and the Nets shot an unreal 40% of their shots as mid range shots compared to their 25%. Moreover, neither team shot them very well. The Jazz were 8 of 29 and the Nets were 9 of 39. At one point in the game the Nets were 4 of 22 on paint non restricted area shots.
- D’Angle Russell had a miserable night. He finished 2 of 11 on mid range shots.
- Derrick Favors had a sequence of the game when he was so much bigger and stronger than any of the Nets they couldn’t get a rebound. The Nets were trying to play zone and had to bail out of the zone because Favors was too much of a force on the boards
- The Jazz bigs killed the Nets. Rudy Gobert had 23 points and 17 rebounds as well as 3 blocks and Derrick Favors had 13 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks.
- The Jazz were able to get off 13 corner 3 attempts which is a lot and a ton when you consider who they were playing. The Jazz are averaging well over 10 corner 3 attempts for the last 10 games.
- Donovan notched another 20 point game. He has had 20 in 28 of his last 30 games
- 13 three pointers for the Jazz. 12 seems to be the magic number for wins
- Solid win now onto the East for a 4 game trip of huge importance.
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