In this season's NBA Western Conference, the Jazz team, which has been repeatedly reversed by the opponent, has become a pseudo-strong team in the eyes of many fans, can only be a blessing in the regular season, the playoffs are difficult to have too high achievements, and have become the most pertinent evaluation of this team by fans, but I have to say that their luck is very good, the opponent Lone Ranger in the first round, in the last game of the regular season, lost the absolute core Doncic, plus they sent away the inner core Porzingis on the trade deadline, Let this team completely lose the leader, which is also the reason why the outside world is optimistic that the Jazz team can easily qualify, but their performance has confirmed the name of the pseudo-strong team!
In the second game between the two sides, the Lone Ranger relied on Brunson's explosive 41-point super god performance, so that the two sides returned to the same running line, but there are still many fans who believe that the Lone Ranger can not rely on the role player's field to advance, but the helpless Jazz is really not OK, after returning to his home field, Mitchell only scored 4 points in the first half, so that the Lone Ranger once established a 16-point lead, although in the third quarter Mitchell single quarter to score 18 points, so that the team saw the hope of reversal, But the lone ranger still beat the opponent 126-118, and the series took a 2-1 lead!
Today's Jazz have their own double-core Mitchell and Gobert, but Mitchell is the absolute core of the team's offensive end, but his biggest problem is completely ignoring Gobert's presence, even if the French tower has a very good open shot opportunity on the inside, he is not in Mitchell's passing list, rather than handing the ball to Gobert to end, Mitchell prefers to do it alone.
In this game with the Lone Rangers, the Jazz fell behind in the first half, the direct reason is Mitchell's mess, in the case of cold hands, Mitchell only scored 4 points in 1 of 7 in the first half, which is why he exploded with 18 points in the third quarter, and was still criticized by fans as a tumor of the team after the game, after all, without his recklessness in the first half, the Jazz would not dig such a big pit for themselves.
Although Gobert is based on defense in the league, but his finishing ability is also good, this campaign Gobert got 15 points and 7 rebounds in 6 of 6, completely ignored by Mitchell on the offensive end, coupled with the previous reporter's revelations, the Warriors are interested in Gobert, hoping to attract him, improve the team's internal shortcomings, so that many fans say that Gobert is still going to go, go to Golden State to join forces with splash brothers, then there will be countless empty shot opportunities under the basket.
With Doncic unable to play, the Lone Ranger was able to win without the full cast, and in this game, seven of their players scored double-digit points, with Brunson continuing the fiery state of the previous game, playing 35 minutes in the whole game, scoring a team-high 31 points on 12-of-22 shooting.
In a previous interview with the media, Lone Ranger head coach Kidd said that Doncic's recovery is very good, if he can return in the first round of the series, it will greatly boost the momentum of the Lone Ranger, and will also make the Jazz's hope of advancing to the second round of the playoffs more slim, after all, from the perspective of court dominance, Doncic has exploded Mitchell, and he can also make his teammates around him more outstanding!