As the holder of the best NBA regular season record last season, the Utah Jazz team's performance this season is still remarkable, having been clinging to the brave Suns and Warriors in the Western Conference standings, but after the injuries of the two core Mitchell and Gobert, their records have dropped significantly, and they have also been overtaken by the Grizzlies to the fourth position in the West, but with the return of the injured, the Jazz have regained the feeling of winning, and stabilized their ranking after a wave of five consecutive wins! In this regular season, the Jazz encountered the Rockets at the bottom of the West, the latter after the loss of Harden, not only is it no longer the nightmare of the Jazz, and even has no strength to tangle with the opponent, and sure enough, after the game officially began, the Jazz team relied on super offensive firepower to take the initiative to win in their own hands, and they were already 25 points ahead of the opponent at halftime, which directly reduced the second half to garbage time. In the final two quarters, the Rockets approached the score when the Jazz gave the role players more time to play, but eventually lost 101-135, suffering a five-game losing streak!
In order to gradually adapt to the intensity of the game, the Jazz coaching staff only gave the best defensive player 21.6 minutes of play time, Gobert scored 14 points and 7 rebounds in 7 of 8 shots, although the playing time was not long, but when he was on the floor, the Jazz's interior defense quality improved by at least one notch, which is why his plus-minus value was as high as +19, and Whiteside, who came off the bench, also contributed 11 points and 14 rebounds. Under the leadership of the duo, the Jazz won 20 rebounds, which is also the reason why the game lost suspense early.
As the Jazz's main point guard Conley, the offensive end of this game can not find the shooting feel at all, 8 shots only hit 1 goal, but in the tandem of the whole team offensive performance is not bad, contributed 2 points, 3 rebounds, 10 assists and 4 steals, under his combing, the Jazz in the game a total of 7 players scored in double figures, of which Mitchell became the team's offensive sharp knife, 9 of 15 cut 30 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, Bogdanovic also showed the strength of the top three-point shooter, one hit four three-pointers to score 22 points, and Clarkson, who came off the bench, also scored 16 points.
Jaylen Green, who is regarded as the future rise of the Rockets, has far less than the expectations of the outside world in his rookie season, and his personal performance against the Jazz can also be described as decent, playing 27.5 minutes, hitting 4 goals in 9 shots, including a good three-pointer, 6 shots, 3 of 6, contributing 13 points and 2 assists, and there is still a very large gap from the expectations of the outside world.
The Jazz are the typical team basketball in the league today, because they do not have a top supergiant in the team, which makes every player need to make their own contributions at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, only then can they hope to go further in the playoffs, and the Rockets need to develop more technical and tactical play methods for Jaylen Green on the offensive end, so that they can grow rapidly through actual combat and avoid becoming a parallel goods show!