POSTCAST = Utah Jazz take on the best in the West, Oklahoma City Thunder

POSTCAST = Utah Jazz take on the best in the West, Oklahoma City Thunder

Tied with five minutes left against the best in the Western Conference the Utah Jazz had all the answers in the clutch and they knock off the Thunder 124 117 it’s next on postcast you are locked on Jazz your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz part of the locked on podcast Network your team

Every Day David lock along with Ron Boone at some point I will stop yelling at you but that was awesome what a game tied at 109 with five minutes left in the Jazz out score of the Thunder one 15-8 in the final five minutes this was against the

Number one team in the west this was the number one offense in the clutch versus the number two offense in the clutch the Jazz got the stops they made the big plays it was just awesome Ron Boon just awesome just think about the ball game and where the Jazz scored

Jazz lost the battle from the three-point line yep they won points in the paint they won second chance points and fast break points nine to5 they got to the rim something that Mark does not want to happen yeah no the Jazz shoot 83% of the rim against the

Number one Rim defense in the NBA at 60% uh the Thunder shoot the lights out tonight they their three-point shooting is 19 of 37 52% I I I literally said the broadcast like that doesn’t change you don’t win like you don’t beat a team that shoots 50 uh I will pull a number

For lockdown Jazz tomorrow I can’t pull it right now I I will look at teams have taken 35 threes in the night and made over 50% I’m going to guess they win 90% of their games so there were a lot of things against it the amount of individual plays tonight by the Utah

Jazz that were made that deserve recognition is is endless I I want to take one we’re gonna that I pointed out in the broadcast and then we’ll talk about some of the individual plays the Jazz the other night I asked will hardy what was wrong to defensively he said two things rebounding and

Transition defense the Jazz made a ton of plays in this game in transition where they got back to the rim stripped the ball knocked it out of bounds and made the Thunder then play in the half court probably five or six that was as much of the difference of winning this

Game as Keon’s three Low’s three Chris dun steals Chris dun block but those are the plays that hustle that commitment that change from how bad they were defensively over that eight game stretch tonight was was really mammoth and what did that do that keeps Alexander off the

Free throw line he’s been averaging 14 a ball game he’s at three games this year we had 177 free throws in in a ball game so that way they that philosophy that they had tonight kept him off the free throw line all right the other thing on

This game is let’s talk about the defense on Shay so the game plan Scott Morrison so awesome I cannot thank him enough for taking the time with us to give us to absolutely was to to force him to the nail we talked about if you’re listening to radio broadcast

Tonight which you really should because we have this information and it’s kind of special that we have it makes the show makes the show Good Makes You really smart so thanks for tuning in uh in the first half he just kept getting to the outside and I asked Evan Brad’s

At halftime I said like it it feels like your guys are trying and he’s just that good what do you do and he’s like you know what you just got to commit harder you got to get up on his outside hit more you got to commit to it more you

Got to be better than that and they they were he did not get to the outside think about him as a running back they want him in they did not want him getting Outside The Tackle Super Bowl week they wanted him playing in the middle and

They you know Shay had 28 tonight but very quiet but well his second half was quiet if you go if I find his first half I think he’s about he’s missed two shots in the first half and the second half he ends up really that’s why it felt quiet

Is because in the first half it was dominant in the second in the first half Shay is eight of 12 and in the second half when the Jazz fixed their defense he goes three of 10 so really that’s as much of the story as well is the way

They defensively altered what they were doing or at least executed the game plan on Shay in the second half yeah it’s it everyone has a game plan and and it doesn’t make coaches it makes coaches feel so good when the game is over and their game plan works they go back in

The locker room and and and just sit back and true enough a lot of times they go in there and and they rehash what happened and you know the good things but it’s so good you know when the coaching staff put together a game plan and it works all one of the questions

Year has been getting Lowry the ball late and tonight they gave Lowry and he made the two biggest shots of the night one of them just in isolation the elbow rose up over the top the other was a left side three uh those are Mammoth baskets and if Lowry wanted to make a

Statement to the Western Conference coaches he did it tonight 33 points and 11 rebounds tonight plus he had a big assist late in the game to ke uh for a right corner three and I can’t remember who I think it was Keon who hit it I’m

Not sure maybe it was somebody else but a huge assist assist late for Lowry too out of the post Lowry was he is brilliant he’s brilliant every night we don’t want to ever take it for granted but he was really good tonight 12 for 18 shooting he ends up getting 11 rebounds

And we uh not sure what beat Ridder asked the question about L shooting and will went through this rant of so many things that lry does well with his shooting but what he failed to mention is that lri when he catches when he when he catches the B well that’s where he

Shoots from I mean it’s not like he he catches and have to bring it down if he catches it up above his head he shoots him that spot catches around his ankles comes up and shoots it I mean that’s what’s so good about that it was inter

He talked about his stationary feet he shoots it off stationary feet he doesn’t need to adjust his feet so he’s able to catch it wherever he’s wherever like Ron’s talking about and be able to bring it into his shooting pocket without having to adjust his feet which then

Lets him get the shot off quickly his lower body has a great base that allows him to do that will talked about um today um the handy dandy book um of all the press conference notes comes into handy postgame uh but that you know that’s that’s what will talked about uh

Late in this ball game let’s go to Keon he has now been at the helm for the last two games uh on the floor closing these games out for the Jazz showing magnificent growth one turnover well that’s great one turnover 16 points 26 minutes his minutes are going up well I

Might as well say 27 minutes but his minutes are going up not making those mistakes um and what I’ve noticed is that he’s playing just a little bit faster he’s not eating up a lot of the clock trying to get into the offense playing just a little bit faster and not

Only up helping the team it’s going to help him there as well one of the I mean there’s a lot of things Chris Dunn played a lot tonight was really really good defensively uh we talked about that in the uh three block shots four steals five assists three rebounds but I also

Think maybe the biggest play and I I gotta go back and check when it happened honestly you guys you call a game like this and I have no idea the sequence of events I’m just kind of running through plays in my head but Chris fairly late in the shot clock drives the basket

They’re they’re they’re laying off Chris because he’s not a good three-point shooter and he’s he’s just not an offensive player and he drives the basket I feel like it was late and he dishes it inside to Walker Kessler for a dunk maybe it wasn’t in the final five

Minutes but I thought that was a huge play in this game Noe it happened with 327 left it was one Thunder left L it 1131 12 he drives in he brings the defense to him and then he finds Walker for the dunk it was just a really good

Clutch uh play of understanding his own strengths in that moment but but I think the that was a scramble before he he was able to gain control of the basketball and and maybe he lost it and got it back and drove into traffic and ends up finding something had to happen because

The previous possession ended at 54 and that possession ended at 27 and according to my math that’s more than 24 seconds so something had to happen in there that I don’t know what it is cuz it’s not on the box SC but here I mean the story down the clutch tonight so if

You’re just tuning in I usually got to give you Jazz were down six at the end of one played pretty well but we’re down six then they were down I think uh nine at the half or seven at the half went on a 19-2 run to close the third outscoring

Him 35-24 then the thunder so the Jazz kind of have the lead going into the fourth and the Thunder bring it back the Thunder then catch them it’s 10799 you feel like you’re in pretty good shape if you’re the Jazz and the Thunder catch

Him at 109 and take the lead at 110 109 with 440 left Keon hits a monster three Jaylen Williams answers with a three Thunder back up that’s then we get the play of dun to Walker the Jazz get giddy to shoot is who they want he misses

Keante gets the pass from Markin and I was talking about with 245 left hits the three hren misses Jazz are now up four but the Jazz kind of a weird sequence they end up not scoring but Jaylen Williams misses another three and a turnover by Shay Chris Dunn with a great

Steal on that and then that’s when Lowry hits the 20-footer that was the big one then he follows it with a three with 43 seconds left to close it out uh and that ended the ball game basically with 43 seconds left so just a a brilliant sequence and and Ron one thing I’m

Impressed by with the jazz is that how good they are like the fact that they’re the number two offensive team in the clutch that’s a real tribute to Will Hardy this is not a team that has a Luca or Shay gilis Alexander or a LeBron James or someone of that nature who you

Would think would carry a team in the clutch for them to be this good Laton games yeah if you look at this roster and I think you talked to some of the critics around the league you know this is supposedly not a very good basketball

Team but this is a 500 team and this team is is uh beating some of the best teams in the NBA beat Milwaukee the number two team in the East though scuffling a little bit and thunder who were not they had one eight of 10 coming

In they were number one in the west uh and got it done uh tonight I I feel like we should just keep talking I don’t want to like let I John Collins 22 points tonight um in 28 minutes Walker kessley I think had four or five blocks tonight

Uh actually they only gave him three but he was great anybody else we should be throwing out there like Kelly oen Kelly oen changed the game yeah Kelly ly conducting out of the post was Kelly lyck was brilliant tonight seven assists he just he just gets it done you know and

Doesn’t take a he averages five shots the ball game I tell people all the time it but he’s presence out there on the floor is known I mean you know he’s there even though he he only takes about five shots a game well they ran the

Entire offense threw him out of the post on a bunch of plays he went Junior joic there uh for a little while all right star time this is tough I I I I I really all right I I always acquest to you and let you go first I’m gonna go

Again with keante okay yeah so so can we discuss the problem we’re running into here so I really think Chris Dunn deserves a lot of recognition for his performance tonight and he closed the game and he made a lot of plays but that means that the guy who made the two

Biggest buckets late who had 33 Points 11 rebounds two assists and an assist late and a steel and is so wildly the best player on the floor tonight would not get a star I actually think it’s a criminal offense to not give Lowry Markin in a star tonight I cannot do it

I am not I am not going to get to the point where we have a player have that kind of a superstar night and we do not give him a star so we have a problem tonight Ron this because L got to get a St this

Is not Houston H Houston we got a problem do we really do I I agree ke was great and he made two monster threes are we sure on keante over Chris Dunn for the star tonight well Chris Dunn doesn’t get a lot of stars so we need to take

Take advantage of his play and I do you do you agree with we just cannot ignore you don’t have Lowry now you got no chance right without a doubt right like he’s just like let’s not forget how great he is is that fine can we do that

Let’s do that Chris Dunn Lowry Mark and keante we assume you’re gonna have a multitude of stars coming up in the future of your life Dunn was great four four skills yeah three blocks yeah that’s pretty incredible as a guard and he St in Shay who went what did we just

Say shay did in the second half he went three of 10 three of 10 11 for 22 for the night yeah that’s that’s pretty good all right Chris Dunn Lowry Markin thanks for tuning in postcast locked on Jazz tomorrow we now send you the first ever 247 National Sports stream locked on

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The Utah Jazz were tied with the Oklahoma City Thunder at 109 with 5:00 minutes left. The Jazz then took control of the game behind the great play of Lauri Markkanen, Kris Dunn and Keyonte George outscoring the Thunder down the stretch 15 to 8. The Jazz transition defense and defensive plan on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander were keys to the victory.

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