In an NBA regular season focus battle that ended earlier, the Jazz beat the Lakers 122-109, Zhan Mei continued to miss due to injury, Howard was forced to Liangshan, and Wei Shao bombarded the team's highest 24 points, which was difficult to beat Utah's double core.
The Jazz have lost all of their recent five-game away game, and the Lakers are also hovering on the edge of the play-offs, as if there is no room for loss.
Both teams are desperate to win, but the Jazz are better at the right time and place, the opening they fired inside and outside to send a 14-4 offensive to seize the opportunity, the Lakers although they suffered losses but found the state can always bite the score, the connection section, the Lakers played a 10-2 small climax to chase the disadvantage to 1 point, the core is not there, the Lakers' offense has no continuity, Clarkson even took 7 points to help the Jazz enter the second half with an 11-point lead.
Easy side competition, the Lakers took the lead, with a 9-3 small climax to chase 5 points, this is also the Lakers' closest to the opponent of the moment, and then Mitchell led the team to quickly establish a double-digit lead, the Lakers repeated counterattacks have been brutally suppressed. The Jazz held on to the advantage in the last quarter and held it to the end.
Utah's dual-core Mitchell and Gobert combined to score 54 points, dominating the attack and defense from the inside and the outside, and successfully kicked the Lakers out of the playoff zone. In terms of role players, Conley had 18 points, 2 boards and 4 assists, Clarkson had 19 points and 2 blocks, and Bogdanovic had 11 points, 3 boards and 5 assists.
There is no general in the lake, and the warcraft is the vanguard. Howard returned to the top of his starting dream, playing 30 minutes, shooting 9-of-13, 1-of-1 from three-point range, cutting 21 points and 12 boards, without error. The Lakers fell out of the playoff zone again, and the next opponent was only the Thunder weaker, and the hope of breaking into the playoffs was slim.