#JAZZ SCORE FREE#

The teams played in very small range for the first half of the first quarter, with Utah reaping the benefits of a friendly whistle to get to the line.

#JAZZ SCORE FREE#

I think he’s still thinking about that Lonnie Walker shot at the end of the last game against the Spurs.īoth teams swapped turnovers to start the game, and Bogdanovich opened up the scoring with 1 of 2 from the free throw line. Quin Snyder always looks like he’s filled with rage.It really destroyed the Spurs interior offense. Even if you get the ball past the perimeter defenders, they are no easy shots. The paint protection by the Jazz is insanely good.Derrick White doesn’t have the speed and midrange game to make the halfcourt offense work as well as Murray can. The offense stalled for much of the game, and really could have used Dejounte Murray to create some ball movement.If your offense isn’t working, just put him into the game and let him create. Every team could use a Jordan Clarkson.It’s very costly to not get those points, but for some reason, the Jazz were also bad from the free throw line tonight. Against a good team, leaving those easy points uncashed is a killer. This team needs to get better at hitting free throws.Keita Bates-Diop in the starting lineup is a good stabilizing influence.It’s Star Wars night at the AT&T Center, and PTR writer Jeph Duarte is in the crowd as Chewbacca (which is pretty much how he always looks).The Spurs played well enough on defense tonight to win the game, but their inability to get scores against the stout Jazz defenders kept the game out of reach. Perhaps the best counter to the paint protection would have been shooting a boatload of three-point shots, but the Spurs couldn’t hit shots outside either tonight, and it turned into a solid win for the Jazz, although the end of the bench group with Cacok, Wieskamp and Primo made the final score look a little closer that it had a right to be with a 10-2 closing run. The Spurs offense hit a wall tonight, and it was a combination of running out of gas like a marathon runner and the elite interior defense of the Utah Jazz, led by Rudy Gobert’s long arms as he blocked a lot of shots and intimidated many more.

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