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[url]https://www.nba.com/jazz/news/utah-jazz-set-new-franchise-record-21-straight-home-wins[/url]
[QUOTE]“They came out aggressive,” Mitchell said. “They came out wanting to get to the paint. We did a lot of things, miscommunications and back-doors, stuff that we can clean up. It’s going to happen some games, but it’s just about how much we can eliminate it from happening.”
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what can be done about you though?
Mike Conley noticed a flock of geese in the distance, but didn’t think much of it. Delta flight 8944 took off from runway 35 on the east side of the airport. Just 10 minutes into the climb—before the comfort of cruising altitude: BANG, BANG, BANG. [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]“What the f— was that? What just hit the plane?” Georges Niang said to Joe Ingles, in the next seat. Turbulence doesn’t sound like that[/URL]. Niang’s brain scrambled to make any sense of it. What sounded like that? His initial thought: a rocket.
– via [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Henry Abbott @ TrueHoop[/URL]
[URL="https://*********.com/player/georges-niang/"]Georges Niang[/URL], [URL="https://*********.com/player/joe-ingles/"]Joe Ingles[/URL], [URL="https://*********.com/player/mike-conley/"]Mike Conley[/URL], [URL="https://*********.com/team/utah-jazz/"]Utah Jazz[/URL]
[IMG]https://*********.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2021/01/i_94_89_b9_georges-niang.png?w=190[/IMG]Panic ensued. The plane tipped back and forth trying to stabilize itself. Players shouted out in horror. Niang gripped the armrests in his aisle seat and looked out the window over Ingles’ shoulder. Niang’s stomach churned as the plane surged up and down, up and down. Niang peered out the window at the left engine. What the … [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]“Look at that dent!” Niang yelled out. “No, no, no,” Ingles said. “Look at that hole.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Henry Abbott @ TrueHoop[/URL]
[URL="https://*********.com/player/georges-niang/"]Georges Niang[/URL], [URL="https://*********.com/team/utah-jazz/"]Utah Jazz[/URL]
A six-foot sheath of blue-painted metal had been ripped open, exposing the engine’s brain-like machinery beneath. Jazz staffers in the back of the plane said they briefly saw a flame from the back of the left engine. “Oh, no.” Niang thought. [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Flight attendants went into action. “Alright, please stay seated, everyone,” they instructed the cabin. The players and staffers obliged in silence[/URL].
– via [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Henry Abbott @ TrueHoop[/URL]
[URL="https://*********.com/player/georges-niang/"]Georges Niang[/URL], [URL="https://*********.com/team/utah-jazz/"]Utah Jazz[/URL]
The plane took a hard left, bending toward the decimated engine. Niang thought: Are we going down? Across the Boeing 757-232, everyone grabbed phones to call loved ones. One problem: no service. WiFi hadn’t been flicked on because the plane hadn’t risen to 10,000 feet. Too high for phone service. Too low for WiFi. [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Niang’s teammates and staffers yelled desperately for the flight attendants to turn on WiFi. Niang thought about Ingles, who has a wife and young twins, a boy and a girl. Some players managed to reach loved ones through iMessage[/URL].
– via [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Henry Abbott @ TrueHoop[/URL]
[URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]When the plane touched down, there was no applause. Niang remembers a wave of exhales. Niang called his mom, told her he was safe. He told her the whole story, and that he loved her.[/URL] Then, her phone pinged as a delayed flood of text messages began to fill her inbox. A team meeting was being assembled. Niang was about to hang up with his mother. “Can you please get an iPhone already?” “We can work on that,” she told him.
– via [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Henry Abbott @ TrueHoop[/URL]
And yet, the Utah Jazz are the best team in the NBA, at least three games above the rest of the league. [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]“The thing that aggravates some of us was that people thought it wasn’t a big deal, hey, they were playing a few hours later. How hard could it be?” Niang says.[/URL] “It was a big deal. But we made the sacrifice to get up and go play. Life is fragile and important but we also realize that we have a job to do.”
– via [URL="https://www.truehoop.com/p/a-bad-dream-that-you-actually-had?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjkxNTY4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDcwNTU4NiwiXyI6ImgwWlIyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3NDY5MDA3LCJleHAiOjE2MTc0NzI2MDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01OTczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oPrLSLyNhYCVRI7qVa6UhRX_0JS__wDKhipYuS2q21o"]Henry Abbott @ TrueHoop[/URL]
[url]https://kslsports.com/456791/magic-will-league-minimum-eight-players-when-facing-jazz/[/url]
[QUOTE]The Magic will start Chasson Randle, Dwayne Bacon, James Ennis, Chuma Okeke, and Wendell Carter Jr. against the Jazz with Terrance Ross, Mo Bamba, and RJ Hampton available off the bench.
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no excuses
[QUOTE]The Jazz meanwhile will be without Mike Conley who continues to rest on either side of back-to-back games as he rehabs his right hamstring injury suffered earlier in the season.
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Eric Walden: Joe Ingles, on Bojan Bogdanovic finding his shooting form again: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]“I’m sure he’s been frustrated. … I think he yelled some Croatian swear words today when he hit a 3, which was nice to see. We need him to keep his confidence up, regardless of if he goes 0 for 5.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]
Move over Splash Brothers. [URL="https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/jazz-break-warriors-nba-record-with-18-3-pointers-in-first-half-against-magic/"]The Utah Jazz set a new NBA record by knocking down 18 first-half 3-pointers against the Orlando Magic on Saturday.[/URL] Utah had easily surpassed the franchise record of 14 by midway through the second quarter, and Donovan Mitchell’s 3-pointer with 34 seconds left in the half put the Jazz in the record books.
– via [URL="https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/jazz-break-warriors-nba-record-with-18-3-pointers-in-first-half-against-magic/"]CBSSports.com[/URL]
[url]https://kslsports.com/456773/donovan-mitchell-travels-with-jazz-to-face-dallas-mavericks/[/url]
[QUOTE]The key matchup will pit the Jazz’s Mitchell against Mavericks guard Josh Richardson. While superstar Luka Doncic will the key feature of the Dallas offense, Mitchell will have to negate the advantage generated by the Slovenian star with a big performance of his own.
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no he won't
[url]https://kslsports.com/456830/jazz-crush-depleted-magic-squad-with-record-setting-shooting/[/url]
[QUOTE]Over the last three games, Bogdanovic is averaging 19.3 points per game, one of his best scoring stretches of the season and by far his best since the All-Star break. Even better, he’s connecting on 3.3 three-point attempts per game while shooting 10-20 from deep.
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wow 3 games
[url]https://www.ksl.com/article/50139780/back-to-the-bubble-donovan-mitchell-is-in-the-midst-of-another-elite-shooting-stretch[/url]
How about some D?
[QUOTE][URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/sports/nba-jazz-jordan-clarkson-philippines.html"]“I’ll say this: If he doesn’t win sixth man of the year, I’m not sure the N.B.A. is ready for the online reaction from this part of the world,” said Nikko Ramos,[/URL] the editor in chief of the Philippines edition of Slam magazine.
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/sports/nba-jazz-jordan-clarkson-philippines.html"]Scott Cacciola @ New York Times[/URL]
[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/sports/nba-jazz-jordan-clarkson-philippines.html"]Fans have spent 45 percent more time on the streaming service watching Jazz games this season than they did last season,[/URL] according to the league. And on the N.B.A. Philippines Facebook page, Clarkson-related posts outperform all other content by an average of three to four times. A video of his highlight from a win over the Los Angeles Clippers in December has been viewed more than 1.2 million times.
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/sports/nba-jazz-jordan-clarkson-philippines.html"]Scott Cacciola @ New York Times[/URL]
“I remember telling him, ‘Hey, are you sure you want to do this?’” Ramos recalled. “And Jordan was like: ‘I play for the Lakers, and I live in L.A. I’m used to getting some attention. It’ll be fine.’” [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/sports/nba-jazz-jordan-clarkson-philippines.html"]It was not fine. As the scene spiraled into something that resembled chaos, Ramos grabbed a towel to throw over Clarkson’s head — an ineffective disguise — and ushered him out of the building through a back door[/URL]. “We couldn’t walk 10 steps,” Ramos said. “Everyone knew he was in the country.”
– via [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/sports/nba-jazz-jordan-clarkson-philippines.html"]Scott Cacciola @ New York Times[/URL]
[/QUOTE]You can have him!
[QUOTE]Andrew Lopez: According to @spotrac, heading into Sunday’s game, [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]the Pelicans had players miss just 47 games because of injuries this season – the best number in the league[/URL]. The next 4 closest teams were Milwaukee (68), Utah (75), Charlotte (78) and Phoenix (85). spotrac.com/nba/injured-re…
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/_Andrew_Lopez"]Twitter _Andrew_Lopez[/URL]
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Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Even after the statewide mask mandate lifts in April 10, the Utah Jazz will continue to require the wearing of masks at all home games at Vivint Arena going forward, the team announced this afternoon[/URL].
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]
Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Mike Conley: “There’s gonna be games like this, and they’re great challenges and great lessons for us. … We have to find ways to win anyways, we have to find ways to push through.[/URL] We had sparks of that. … We have to manufacture ways to win when the ball isn’t going in.”
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]
Ben Anderson: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]The Mavericks 23 threes are the most the Jazz have allowed in a regular season game since November 5, 2017[/URL]. That was Donovan Mitchell’s 10th game in the NBA.
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/BensHoops"]Twitter BensHoops[/URL]
Tim MacMahon: Rick Carlisle says Mavs aren’t watching the standings. I usually don’t believe that, but [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Luka Doncic just mentioned that he thinks the Jazz are “first or second in the West.”[/URL]
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon"]Twitter espn_macmahon[/URL]
Tim MacMahon: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Jazz’s 9-game winning streak is snapped with a 111-103 loss to the Mavs[/URL]. Spectacular shooting night for Dallas (23-of-49 on 3s). Luka Doncic: 31-9-8
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon"]Twitter espn_macmahon[/URL]
[QUOTE]Eric Walden: [URL="https://*********.com/social/"]Donovan Mitchell: “We just had a rough night. For us to only lose that game by 8 says a lot about our will to win.[/URL] … Mike was really what was keeping us in it.”
– via [URL="https://twitter.com/tribjazz"]Twitter tribjazz[/URL]
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we? Why didn't you get Mike the ball? Rudy didn't shut down the paint?
[url]https://kslsports.com/456886/mavericks-hot-shooting-snaps-jazz-9-game-winning-streak/[/url]
[QUOTE][URL="https://kslsports.com/category/jazz/"]The Jazz[/URL] wouldn’t have been close to the Mavericks in the first half if it wasn’t for Mike Conley. Utah’s starting point guard had 15 points in the first half, including 13 points in the first quarter. Bojan Bogdanovic and Rudy Gobert each had 8 points in the first 24 minutes of the game. The Jazz shot 39 percent from the field and made just four of their first 23 three-point attempts.
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Gobert shutting down the paint had little to do with it :facepalm
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[url]https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/5/22367936/instant-analysis-utah-jazz-shooting-goes-cold-in-loss-to-dallas-mavericks[/url]
[QUOTE]Rudy Gobert was possibly the only other bright spot for the Jazz and had some really impressive moments especially in defending on the outside.
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poor trolls