The Jazz 111-85 Warriors, ending the Warriors' nine-game winning streak, extended their winning streak to four games.
More importantly, it was Gobert's four-game winning streak after missing eight games with a calf injury.
The eight games that Gobert lacked were interesting, with the Jazz giving them four straight losses followed by four straight wins, suggesting that they were also adapting to a game without Gobert.
Gobert is the cornerstone of the entire Jazz system, and on the offensive end he is the wall of blocking and demolition, the cover wall of his teammates' three-point shooting, and the point of containment for the next step. Not to mention the defensive end, he alone can hold the Salt Lake City penalty area.
After Azubuk started, because his downward threat was not enough, the Jazz could only float on the outside to shoot three points, and the Warriors started with a wave of 9-0 knocking.
After Coach Schneider called out the first timeout, the Jazz clearly further strengthened the connection between the outside and Azubke, first Conley fed Azubuk a cake, then Conley played big Looney with a three-pointer, and then O'Neal sent Azubuk a dunk.
The core of the Jazz's thinking is to strengthen the connection between the inside and outside of their own side, and the offense should blossom inside and outside, while targeting the Warriors' inside line.
At 5 minutes and 47 seconds in the first quarter, Azubuk covered the foul and received his second offense, but the Jazz did not panic and directly replaced the bench center big white side.
This point in time is delicate because it is exactly the time for the Warriors to change to the rotation lineup. Because Clay was on rotation, Poole was promoted to the starter, so when rotating players like Cumminga and Payton came on the court, the Warriors didn't have enough space.
The lack of space means that the white side can safely defend the box and interfere with the Warriors' impact on the basket with his height and arm span, at which point the white side has a role with Gobert.
White Edge sent out 6 blocks in just half-time, setting a new high for the season, like a giant spirit god, completely suppressing the Jazz's restricted area.
It's no secret that the big white side has always been very capable of blocking, but it's very different from the real contribution of his defensive end. Because he loves to jump too much, sometimes he sacrifices his defensive position in order to block, and after the opponent understands his defensive habits, his block often does not pay off.
But after coming to Salt Lake City, he has changed, caring more about his defensive position than jumping and flying opponents. Who are the Warriors who are most blocked by him today?
Cuminga, because Cumminga did not shoot, preferred to hold the ball and rely on physical talent to rush the basket. But when you look at the white side to defend him, no matter how he shakes the white side and never jumps, he extends his arm to follow him, waiting for him to send the ball to his hand.
From the last 3 minutes of the first quarter to the first 3 minutes of the second quarter, the white edge played perfectly: blocking, guarding the basket, causing Wiggins to foul on the offense, and those who did not know that Gobert had possessed his soul, conley constantly used the Jazz's successful defense to instigate counterattacks.
By the time Toscano Anderson came up in the second quarter, the Warriors' space deteriorated further, and the Jazz's interior line was even more windy and rainy.
On the defensive end, Anderson couldn't match the size of the Jazz's interior line, resulting in a loss in the interior attack. That's why the Jazz still broke the Warriors when they weren't as good as the Warriors in the whole three-point game, and the Warriors couldn't match the inside line.
This brings us back to the old Warriors' weakness — the inside problem. After Green's injury, the Warriors' real interior line is only Looney's only seedling, and Looney is limited by physical talent, in addition to cover, it is difficult to provide the Warriors with internal offensive diversity.
This makes the Warriors have to find problems to solve as soon as they encounter problems, such as the second half of today's game, knowing that the problem is on the inside, but still can only hope for Curry and Wiggins.
Curry himself is in a bad state and has enjoyed the treatment of bags for a long time, and Wiggins is not Durant's type of "death and discoloration".
When the Warriors pin their offensive hopes on Wiggins, he tends to be less good, and he can often surprise you when you don't expect much from him.
The Jazz thought very clearly: it doesn't matter if you can't shoot on the outside, there is also an advantage in the inside.
The Jazz won the Warriors 17 rebounds and scored 28 more points on the inside. In the fourth quarter of 11 minutes and 05 seconds, Forrester and the white side of the block launched, broke through the white side of the basket, the white side hung Anderson against the interference of Poole to put the ball in, the Jazz led by nearly 20 points, which is the epitome of the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides of the whole game.
So, will Wiseman be the Warriors' hope?
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