POSTCAST – Luka Doncic carries the Dallas Mavericks past the Utah Jazz

POSTCAST – Luka Doncic carries the Dallas Mavericks past the Utah Jazz

The young Utah Jazz show a great deal of mental fortitude they fight can’t make a shot and that prevents you from winning basketball games particularly when they have Luca donin we’re talking about it next on postcast play you are locked on Jazz your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz part of the

Locked on podcast Network your team every Day well the Utah Jazz battled tonight they LED at the end to 12726 went down by nine then eventually trailed by 19 got it back down to seven at one point all in the night where they very easily on a back end of a back toback coming

Out of Oklahoma City and shoot four of 30 from three are minus nine in the free throw discrepancy this thing could have been super ugly and we talk a lot about like letting go of the Rope or not like I got to give these guys a ton of credit

Tonight they they’ve lost a lot they’ve lost 13 of their last 16 now 14 of the last 17 they really didn’t let go on the Rope at all tonight will hardy I don’t know what his press conference gonna say tonight but I think he’s got to be

Really pleased with the level of effort and focus and mental kind of fight he got out of his guys tonight I totally agree with you and I know we talked about this earlier about jazz not finishing games I thought they played pretty hard in the fourth quarter but

It’s still that one quarter the second quarter tonight that that puts them in hold and and and for a very young team you get to the point where you’re playing uphill it’s awfully hard to win it I mean they the second quarter really is just got not making shots they lead

By one they played a really really good first quarter tonight and then they don’t make a field goal to the 729 Mark of the second quarter in fact the Jazz in that second quarter shot six of 19 and 0 of nine from three I think it was

The Jazz hit one three in the first half one of 15 they missed 13 straight at one point I mean that’s just really you know Lowry goes one of nine Hendricks one of three Keon one of four Saxton 0 for three sensah 0 for four some of this is

If we’re honest we don’t have very good Shooters right now Keon came in four of his last 24 and he’s now five of his last 29 Bryce came in one of his last 20 he’s now one of his last 24 um so some of this is hey we got some

Guys taking shots that aren’t him right now but sometimes it just happens and uh I don’t a good question from Mata wondering like was was ball movement the issue I I don’t think so they actually I thought got a lot of decent looks the other night they got 15 Corner threes

I’ll look up what they got tonight I shots didn’t go in and and guys guys had looks and just couldn’t knock them down right now that I agree with that um and and you have to make short shots in order to win basketball games uh but you

Also have to think about the type of shots that you’re getting um and I just think right now if that one quarter is is is killing the Jazz and tonight again it was it was the second quarter but when you put together the kind of line up that the Jazz are

Putting out out there on the floor you know sometime you can see the frustration in in um in in will taking it out on officials too as well but you can just see the frustration with he took it out on the officials because the officials sucked to me yeah I agree with

That they did they totally suck I’ll just say that like I thought it was brutal okay sorry interrupt that’s fine I’m still pissed yeah but I’m sour this is this is the fight the Jazz are GNA have to have going through the rest of the season tonight

By the way is the worst three-point percentage in any game in franchise history when taking 23s in a game so certainly had the script Jazz shot 66% from twos tonight that’s the first time they lost a game where they shot over 65% from three all year thank you to

Tyler Gibb who’s done the Jazz have never shot 10% or worse when attempting 16 or more threes and they finished the night at 133% so they did exceed that um one thing on the defensive end while generally the Jazz defense was pretty good Daniel Gafford ends up with eight

Dunks tonight I mean they had a dunkfest on the jazz tonight um but honestly the Jazz defensive rating was a 113 tonight Dallas comes in with a 119 so if the Jazz were 30th in the league defensively recently held someone six points below there their rate now the Jazz off on a

Night where the Jazz offense was in the fifth percentile I will say this and I’m not going to blabber it I’m I labored it on the broadcast the reason the offenses were down tonight is because they officials just let the ball handler get manhandled I thought all night long that

Was my that was my observation Ron can comment if he thinks I’m wrong on that but I I thought the ball handlers just got mauled all night so it the bottom line is okay can you or or these young players start to make those adjustments and start to playing the way that your

Opponents are playing um or can they do it I listened to Jason kid talk about being physical playing physical you know I hear coaches say that quite a bit I’ve always believed that if you’re not naturally a physical person then you’re going to get fouls you’re going to

Create fouls because you’re trying to be physical and it’s not naturally oh that’s super interesting so can you teach someone to be a physical Defender I maybe so maybe so if if if you’re you’re going to pick up fouls trying to do it oh that’s interesting you know no that’s really interesting

You’re either comfortable making contact with someone or you’re not yeah I agree with that oh that’s really interesting I hadn’t thought about that um it does I mean Jason kid made the comment before the game that he’s basically told his guys to go like play very physical find

Out where the fouls are and then react from there and I hope that works for him and he says you know just said to some extent because they’re they’re calling it like playoff basketball if Dallas did not have many fouls called I think they had nine in the first half so they were

Playing very physical without foul calls they found out where the whistle was to their credit yeah that’s the key right there find out where the whistle at jazz get uh Colin sexon has another brilliant game I mean he’s just really great like he he he’s got 20 points nine of 14

Shooting four of five from the field this guy is just crazy efficient unbelievable inside the paint and just doing great things for the Jets played 33 minutes tonight and they needed him to play 33 minutes tonight um but you’re absolutely right he is that energy that

Will talks about all the time that you can put in the ball game you know you’re going to get it out of him and it’s not like his field goal percentages are bad I mean he’s always good from the field I mean nine for 14 here tonight um and you

Know comes up with five assists perfect player for a team like the Jazz coming off the bench craziest thing to me about tonight in just this kind of whole stretch is the different defensive matchups Taylor Hendrick’s getting on a night in and Night Out basis tonight he

Had Luca donic how do you what do you think’s going on in his what do you think he’s learning he’s on the fast track of trying to be make him a good defensive player by putting him on these guys and I can understand that you know and and hopefully he doesn’t get so

Frustrated and and he learns from it and I hope Wheels in his ear all the time about about you know this is what you’re going to be going through for the rest of your your your basketball career and and you have the ability the length um

You have the wingspan in order to to be a pretty good defensive player so you’re going to have to learn these things what do you think of luuka tonight 34 point points nine rebounds eight assists I didn’t think he dominated that much but he did you know sometime you can

Dominate and all of a sudden he’s making shots from all over the place and getting to the free throw line I just thought that he just played a careful typical luk LCA LCA game what were the turnover numbers on LCA tonight did he turn it over four turnovers

Tonight they had 13 turnovers we had 18 Keon had six of them Chris Dunn had four of them um tonight as we were mentioned just very very physical one thing on keante that I think is interesting teams are picking him up at about 75 fet it

Does seem like there’s a book out right now that somebody along the way started picking him up at 75 feet got away with it and now everyone’s doing it it’s got to be wearing him out think about this if they’re picking him up and making him change directions he’s barely getting it

Over the timeline of 16 with 16 seconds now he still has to change directions in order to get into the offense and sometimes you can see he’s trying to direct traffic out there and how many times did you see okay he makes his first pass with 10 seconds on the clock

Nine seconds on the clock now you can’t get into those second and third options if they’re if and and you’re trying to run a pick and roll so it’s it’s he’s got I’d like to see him set a guy up just get up the floor real fast and and

And and make something happen there rather than going back and forth and you know going between his legs might be getting tired too that’s a lot of work 33 minutes a night and uh these guys guarding him at that level and then he had Shay for a little while last night

He had other guys had Kyrie at parts tonight so good night off of them before we head to Houston all right stars tonight romoon boy oh boy oh boy ston Colin ston for sure and I’m gonna go Walter Kesler Colin seon might take the team League lead in Stars here pretty

Soon Lacy will update us and Walker Kessler tonight seven for seven for the field 14 points nine rebounds two assists and it wasn’t just dunks like it I mean it was predominantly layups and things but I thought he you were impressed a lot of players on the Move

Tough bounce passes things like that nature he caught a very low pass that was thrown by by keante that I was impressed with in kind of in traffic got down and picked it up goes up and finishes at The Rim so the Jazz fall to the Dallas Mavericks

11397 all right we’ve seen Denver we’ve seen Oklahoma City we’ve seen Minnesota and we’ve seen Dallas Denver is the best team you’ve seen right yes it is who’s the second best team we’ve seen well it it’s definitely not Dallas I’m I’m going to that’s crazy Oklahoma City Oklahoma

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The Dallas Mavericks won their 7 straight with Luka Doncic and beat the Utah Jazz in Dallas. The Mavericks move to 6th in the West with the win.

David Locke and Ron Boone bring you POSTCAST live after every Utah Jazz game