On February 7, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Thunder challenged the Jazz away. As the first Thunder in the West, they came up in a good offensive state, and they also took the initiative, once taking a 12-point lead, but in the second half, the Jazz directly reversed the situation, and fell into a tug-of-war in the final quarter. In the end, the Jazz upset the Thunder 124-117 at home.
This result is still a bit unexpected, I thought the Thunder would take the initiative, but they failed to withstand it in the second half, and were directly counterattacked by the Jazz, and scored consecutive points at the critical moment in the final quarter, but the Thunder failed to respond, with Markkanen's three-point shot, directly announced the early end of the game, which also made the Jazz home fans fall into a carnival, which was a victory they themselves did not expect.
Markkanen performed very well in the whole game, shooting 12-of-18 from the field, 5-of-7 from three-point range, scoring 33 points and 11 rebounds, and leading the team to upset the first place in the West at home. Collins also had 22 points and nine rebounds, while George off the bench scored 16 points on 4-of-6 three-pointers and Clarkson had 12 points. This time, the Jazz also blossomed more, with 6 players on the team scoring double-doubles, and finally achieved a big upset, and also won 2 consecutive victories, continuing to rank tenth in the West.
The Thunder played well this time, hitting 19 three-pointers in the whole game, and the shooting rate was also over 50%, but unfortunately the defense was lax. And this time the Big Three Alexander, Jalen and Holmgren combined to score 76 points, which can become an empty cut, Alexander got 28 points and 7 assists, Jaylen 26 points, Holmgren 22 points, and the efficiency is also good, but unfortunately the state of the teammates around him is not very good, and in the end they lost the game.
With the Thunder's upset loss, coupled with the previous Timberwolves' upset loss, the pattern of the West was directly changed, and the Clippers unexpectedly reached the top. In this way, the Clippers rushed to the first place in the West, and it was still a little surprising that with such a result, I didn't expect the Timberwolves and Thunder to collapse on the same day. Now the Clippers have a record of 34 wins and 15 losses, temporarily ranking first in the West, you must know that they only started with 3 wins and 7 losses, but I didn't expect to rush directly to the first place now, which is really crazy.