Second win for the Jazz after the All-Star break. And little two. The Mavericks, who were on the rise, and the Suns, very favorites in the conference that the three share. In Phoenix they carried out a game in which from the beginning they knew how to react to the challenges posed by some short-handed Suns and in which the crucial absence of Chris Paul due to injury is already beginning to be noticed.
Utah beat 114-118 after enduring the rhythm of Phoenix throughout the game and waiting for the last minutes to give the final lunge. Mike Conley sentenced with a free throw.
Between Ayton and McGee they stopped the effect that Gobert produces in the two hoops. But outside Paul is not the only one missing, neither is Payne and Payton does not have the confidence of the coach. The base position was eaten by Booker at times, a variant that is not recommended. The success in the final shots fell, like the game, on the visiting side, although a double failure in the Suns’ comeback was crucial.
The Jazz fired up after going 8-0 and going -14 midway through the first quarter to tie that first set at 32. That’s the kind of response they spent at the Footprint Center. The contest was even until the second half came. In the lack of control, Quin Snyder’s men moved better, with more wardrobe depth. Clarkson and House, two of the substitutes, put important triples in the basket in the final stretch. Those from Salt Lake City managed to rise above ten points thanks to Mitchell (26), who even hit three-pointers on the board, and touches by Bogdanovic (11). The Suns wanted to come back and got to it in the last minutes. Two triples almost in a row, the first by Booker (30) and the second by Crowder (16), made it 114-117, Mitchell missed possession of him and the Suns had one last attack left to try to tie. But they didn’t even launch. They had 5.2 seconds left and there came the two errors in the same action. Monty Williams did not stop the match to prepare something on the board despite having a timeout – which he asked for later, when it no longer made sense – and Jae Crowder threw a horrible pass, to the clouds, for a Devin Booker who had no option to catch it Loss and blush. Conley, scoring the second of the free throws that followed, closed the game without further competition.
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