After five straight losses and facing private opponents in Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Norman Powell and Luke Kennard, the Jazz needed to find their way back to victory. For Will Hardy, it was an obligation.
The coach therefore made a clear choice: he relied on Collin Sexton and Lauri Markkanen. Support is the right word since the two players remained respectively 11 and 12 minutes on the floor in the third quarter. And the former Cleveland will also play more than nine minutes in the last…
“I told the coach that I needed to go out a bit”relates Sexton, smiling, at the Deseret News. “He told me that I was not tired and asked me to catch my breath. Which I did and there he told me to go pressure off-road. »
The Finn also stuck his tongue out, hoping to get out several times but each time he saw no one showing up in the side to replace him. The latter scored 23 points, Sexton 21 and the Jazz won. Fortunately for the organizations, the group does not train this Thursday.
“We wanted victory”confirms Hardy. “The guys had the right mojo. It was a matter of feeling. No player was bad or anything, but I thought this group was playing really well. It was essential to leave with a success. »
And when the former Spurs assistant wanted to make a change at the start of the second half, it was the player who refused. After taking his fourth foul, just three minutes after returning from the locker room, Jordan Clarkson (33 points in 40 minutes) knew he was going to join the bench. But he decided otherwise.
“I gave him a sign to tell him that it was okay, that I was not going to make any more mistakes”, explains the sixth man of the Jazz, who will then score 11 points in this quarter. “And respect to him, he believed in me. I felt good. I didn’t take my fifth before the end of the match, thanks to my teammates who made the effort in defense to let me make a difference in attack. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Lauri Markkanen | 23 | 33.8 | 52.8 | 38.6 | 81.3 | 2.3 | 6.1 | 8.4 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 22.2 |
| Jordan Clarkson | 23 | 32.0 | 42.7 | 35.2 | 84.6 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 19.0 |
| Malik Beasley | 23 | 26.8 | 42.9 | 40.3 | 90.0 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 14.0 |
| Collin Sexton | 23 | 23.7 | 48.4 | 35.0 | 82.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.3 | 13.6 |
| Kelly Olynyk | 23 | 28.2 | 55.8 | 47.5 | 80.0 | 1.4 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 13.1 |
| Mike Conley | 17 | 29.3 | 39.2 | 38.6 | 76.5 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 7.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 10.2 |
| Jarred Vanderbilt | 21 | 24.8 | 58.3 | 38.1 | 62.5 | 2.3 | 5.9 | 8.2 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 3.1 | 8.0 |
| Talen Horton-tucker | 23 | 16.6 | 39.5 | 26.9 | 76.5 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 7.5 |
| Walker Kessler | 20 | 15.0 | 71.7 | 0.0 | 53.8 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 4.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 5.0 |
| Rudy Gay | 12 | 15.7 | 36.2 | 26.5 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 4.5 |
| Nickeil Alexander-Walker | 13 | 10.7 | 35.4 | 32.0 | 88.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 3.8 |
| Simone Fontecchio | 12 | 7.4 | 37.8 | 37.0 | 71.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 3.6 |
| Ochai Agbaji | 6 | 11.1 | 42.1 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.3 |
| Micah Potter | 2 | 5.9 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| Udoka Azubuike | 7 | 4.4 | 85.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.7 |
| Leandro Bolmaro | 3 | 7.1 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
