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win! 124-121. The

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Jazz beat the Houston Rockets tonight to

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get their first

1:55

win in 13 outings. They

1:57

end the 13 game losing streak tonight. They

2:00

do it in a balanced effort. They do

2:02

it with this really high level

2:05

effort tonight would be the story to me, Ron.

2:07

Yeah, and I'm really impressed with the first quarter.

2:09

No, even though they are outscored by 10 in

2:11

that quarter, I was really impressed with the

2:14

things that they were getting done, especially with Luca,

2:16

the way he started the ball game off and

2:18

playing very, very well. We

2:20

had talked to Scott about things that they wanted to

2:22

accomplish in that ball game, getting up on

2:25

screens and all those kind of things. I

2:27

didn't think they did such a great job

2:30

early in the ball game, especially with Van

2:32

Lee. But for the most part, you

2:34

know, seeing that win. Van Lee goes

2:36

on a barrage for 20 points in that first

2:38

quarter. He doesn't score in the second. He gets

2:40

on another barrage. He scores 42 on

2:43

the night with a lot of free throws, but

2:45

he misses his final nine shots tonight. And frankly,

2:47

he goes 12 of 30 from the field. He

2:49

only got, he only, I think, had

2:51

one more three after the first or second quarter of

2:54

the ball game. So the jazz really

2:56

made him work. And then I thought the thing they

2:58

started to do is make him work on both ends

3:00

of the floor. And sometimes when a guy's hot offensively,

3:02

what you got to do is make him play defensive.

3:04

They made him do that. Exactly. And you can see

3:06

they started to use Luca, Simon,

3:08

it's on with

3:11

Van Lee, switching,

3:14

and then trying to take advantage of that, which

3:17

really makes a

3:19

big difference, I think, David, when guys are hot and they're

3:21

scoring and they're in a rhythm. You kind of take them

3:23

out of that rhythm by making them play

3:26

some defense. And I don't

3:28

know if he was tired in that fourth quarter, but a lot

3:30

of those shots, they weren't close. They

3:32

played 40 minutes, so he may have been tired.

3:34

He had a lot of effort there. Jalen Green

3:36

did not give them much tonight. Played 18 minutes,

3:39

but one of seven really was not

3:41

tied in. Dylan Brooks bombed 10 shots of

3:44

the fourth quarter. He made two of them.

3:46

Jazz got a balanced effort. Seven different guys

3:48

and double figures tonight, Ron. And you mentioned

3:50

Luca, Simon, and Chad, his best game. The

3:53

Jazz staff front office have been

3:55

really high on him. We've commented on him before.

3:57

He just seemed to play nervous all the time

3:59

and tight. And at times like pulling the

4:01

string back tonight, he just looked like everything

4:03

we've seen out of him in practice and

4:05

scrimmages. That's, that's what he looked

4:07

like that player tonight. Yeah, he just needed to

4:09

slow down, I think. And you're gonna, you're gonna

4:11

get a guy out there that doesn't get much

4:13

playing time. They're trying to play their game, but

4:15

they're also trying to play careful and not make

4:17

any mistakes. Even tonight,

4:20

after he had things going, he seemed to kind

4:22

of go back to where he was when he

4:24

only was getting a few minutes off on the

4:26

fourth. This is the most minutes he's played all

4:29

season long, 33 and a half minutes. And

4:31

you know, with 22 points, his old season

4:33

high was like 15, got that early in

4:36

the year, got to the point

4:38

where he wasn't getting off the bench hardly at all. And

4:41

I would imagine going forward, you know, he's

4:43

gonna be pretty comfortable. Big

4:46

cheers, a lot of pictures being taken, jazz

4:48

dancers taking pictures of their family

4:50

out on the floor for one last time.

4:52

Lowry marketing just walked out and gave

4:55

some young boy from Wisconsin who's visiting

4:57

a pair of shoes and he's

4:59

all fired up. So happiness all

5:02

the way around here in the

5:04

arena right now. The talk of

5:06

the game, probably for jazz fans

5:08

right now, is Kenny Lofton Jr.

5:10

He got his first rotation

5:12

minutes, 27 minutes. This guy's been a

5:14

G-League star for a while. He's

5:17

been a summer league star. He's big. He's

5:19

6'8", he's 275 pounds. You

5:21

know, he's heavy, right? Like, I mean, overweight, whatever

5:23

you want to call it, it's probably, but

5:26

he's super skilled. He's got a depth

5:28

touch. You can see it in his jump shot. He's

5:30

good passer. He made one or two passes to

5:33

Keyontae George, one in particular, where he kind of

5:35

ball faked a few times and then folded it

5:37

a pass through traffic that he created. But he

5:39

created the passing lane by faking the passes. He's

5:43

clearly a skilled basketball player and

5:45

he got to display that tonight.

5:47

Yeah. 27 minutes,

5:49

as you just mentioned, only missed a couple of shots. But

5:53

aside from making those shots, as you just mentioned,

5:55

his presence out there on the four of those,

5:57

he showed a variety of things that he

5:59

can do. in a basketball game. Shot

6:01

to three, what was he? Two

6:03

to three from the three-point line. He

6:06

had some muscle plays and he just mentioned some of

6:08

the passes that he had there as well. Very

6:11

skillful and if you don't

6:13

like his five then that's what probably

6:16

hurts him more than anything. Yeah, I mean the word on

6:18

him has been over the years that defensively he's just not,

6:20

he's not a big enough guy to be a center at

6:22

6'8 and so he ends up having

6:24

to switch on wings at 6'8 by playing

6:26

that and that gets really difficult for him

6:29

to be able to stay on the floor

6:31

defensively. Let's hope he can continue to learn

6:33

and see that. I

6:36

think the big thing, can he become a 15 minute

6:40

game for a basketball team? And

6:43

that's hard, that's actually a very different skill set than

6:45

what we saw tonight because tonight we kind

6:47

of ran through him and used him a lot and he was very,

6:50

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6:52

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bouncing around trying to find a gig, you know,

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you could tell tonight, there were guys out there on

9:29

the floor playing for their lives tonight. That

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one play, not

9:34

the one play, but that one segment out

9:37

there where they both hustle plays

9:39

ended up getting a bucket. Was

9:41

it... I think Shaminage ended up

9:43

with it by the end. Yes.

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And four or five hustle plays in

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one setting. And

9:51

you could just tell everyone was trying to make

9:53

sure that... There were a few of those tonight.

9:56

There were a few, two or three opportunities. We didn't always

9:58

convert on it, but there were two or three. of

10:00

them tonight the question I

10:02

would have on this is did the play

10:04

by the jazz tire

10:08

that effort tire the Rockets out they missed 20 of

10:10

their final 24 shots I think

10:12

it was maybe 19 of our final 23 one of the two

10:14

there's a little question whether one

10:16

shot late counted or not but did

10:19

that was that the just hiring the

10:21

Rockets out well that they played so

10:23

hard all night early the

10:25

game frankly they didn't we were lamenting

10:27

that the Rockets were getting rhythm threes

10:29

time and time and time again and

10:31

then they ended up shooting 21

10:33

to 47 from three so it's not

10:36

like they suddenly got cold too cold but it

10:38

did feel so that those rhythm shots were gone and

10:40

the dates they were not they

10:43

looked higher if you're gonna have an advantage

10:45

and you know you have an advantage I

10:47

think the Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz

10:49

do have that advantage as far as altitude

10:54

you try to take advantage of it and you

10:56

know if teams run out of gas in

10:58

the fourth quarter you keep pounding away and

11:00

and you end up with it with

11:02

a team that shoots whether they shoot in fourth quarter

11:04

as I mean six or 29 to 21% so right

11:08

but we have to go take advantage of it

11:10

so when you look at this one tonight

11:13

the one thing I think it's gotta be mentioned is

11:15

the sold out crowd yeah it was actually a slow

11:17

it was funny I'll be admit it was a late

11:19

arriving crowd tonight felt like and I

11:21

was nervous like walking around the arena there's more many

11:23

people here I was like oh no it's just like

11:25

the night where the jazz fans like on fan appreciation

11:28

for the first time ever like don't show exact

11:30

opposite sold out everyone's in the house at the

11:32

end Ray Acosta gave a review that

11:34

they didn't like the official they booed him down so

11:37

you couldn't hear him talk I mean if

11:39

we're gonna do fan appreciation that you and I got to take a

11:41

moment it is so great to be the play-by-playing

11:43

analysts for for this team in this city

11:45

where people care this much in the night

11:47

like tonight 13 game losers like

11:50

everyone in the building knew they'd lost 13 straight everybody

11:52

knew the meaning you could feel it of

11:54

how badly they wanted to win for the players well

11:56

and no other franchise in

11:59

the league can match this

12:01

franchise as far as fans are concerned and

12:04

the way they come out and pull for their

12:07

team. Well, Ron and I

12:09

will head to LA tonight and we will head

12:11

to Oakland or San Francisco on Sunday. But just

12:13

from being in this arena, got a comment. It's

12:15

always such a gift to be here, see everyone,

12:17

get the hellos, all that stuff. For

12:20

me, it's been 15 years for Ron. It's been 50. And

12:24

it's just an honor and a pleasure to be

12:26

in this arena with you guys, calling the game

12:28

and interacting and seeing your excitement and your passion.

12:31

Truly greatly appreciate that. So thank you very much.

12:33

Who are you starting up tonight, Rob? Luca and

12:36

Lofton, I think. It's probably

12:38

an easy choice here tonight. Both of those guys

12:40

play very, very well. And

12:42

the minutes that they gave while they were out

12:45

on the floor were valuable minutes. 22.6

12:48

rebounds, two assists for Luca Shaminich.

12:50

Kenny Lofton, 27 minutes, 14.9 rebounds, five assists,

12:55

two steals, and a blocked shot. Those

12:57

tonight, where he had nine rebounds. Nine

12:59

rebounds. Five of them on the offensive

13:01

glass. It's pretty great. All right, Jazz

13:03

and the Clippers tomorrow night, we'll be

13:05

back with you for postcast. Thank you,

13:07

everybody. Kenny Lofton and Luca Shaminich, get

13:10

those stars. We

13:13

still got two to go, so we hope you'll join

13:15

us for postcast. Early one on Sunday as well. And

13:18

greatly appreciate you guys, all of you. Our chat room

13:20

is kind of the regulars. You guys are part of

13:22

the family. We super appreciate you, but all here in

13:24

the arena. Wonderful as well. Thank you very much, Jazz

13:26

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