⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Jazz got 13 points ahead of the pace we expected in the second quarter, then it evened out by full time. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ UTAH better than we expected
▼ MEM better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 18 points better than our numbers for the Jazz.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Jazz won, and why the Grizzlies did not.
From the game
Made nineteen threes to their ten- Shot well above their usual, nineteen of 34 from three
- Won the glass, 41 rebounds to 28
- Kept giving it away, 22 turnovers to their fourteen, and outscored them 33-20 off them
- Burned in transition, 8 fast break points to 21
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Jazz
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 3 down to 5 up
Q1 9:19 · UTAH 13-8 MEM
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run took them from 6 down to 4 up
Q1 0:31 · UTAH 40-36 MEM
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 2-point lead to 12
Q2 8:41 · UTAH 50-38 MEM
Bad plays
- Technical
Double technical foul - Donovan Mitchell and Dillon Brooks
Q4 9:39 · UTAH 102-87 MEM
Grizzlies
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run cut a 24-point deficit to 14
Q4 2:23 · UTAH 126-112 MEM
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| UTAH | MEM | |
|---|---|---|
| 56% | Shooting from the field | 53% |
| 19 | Threes made | 10 |
| 56% | Three-point accuracy | 29% |
| 17 | Free throws made | 16 |
| 47 | Rebounds | 36 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 5 |
| 32 | Assists | 23 |
| 50 | Points in the paint | 64 |
| 8 | Fast break points | 21 |
| 33 | Points off turnovers | 20 |
| 22 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 8 | Steals | 15 |
| 0 | Blocks | 3 |
