With Utah's Rudy Gobert patrolling the paint, the Dallas Mavericks made only eight shots at the rim — compared with their usual 15 — as the Jazz won Game 1 of their playoff series on Saturday.
Gobert’s in the paint to prevent the shot, and the Mavs do kick it out, rightly. But Donovan Mitchell’s there to quickly rotate to the corner, and then Gobert can recover out to the perimeter shooter to prevent that look, too. It’s so different, and much more effective, than what they did last season.
With Mitchell struggling, Bogdanovic absolutely carried the Jazz in the first half. His biggest source of offense was the post-up — as the Mavericks switched, going to Bogdanovic against a smaller defender was a logical way to attack the switch. But the thing to be most proud of? Mitchell and Bogdanovic worked off the threat of each other in the fourth quarter. The Jazz have had a tendency to be Mitchell-heavy late in games. While there were a couple of possessions of the Jazz forcing it, what we saw late minutes was instead the Jazz flowing the ball towards the logical player offensively.
That’s what we have wanted to see most from the Jazz’s fourth quarter offense: playing like they do for the rest of the game. They need to stay aggressive, run in transition, and be smart about which players they attack and when. Even when the Mavs started coming back, they stayed true to their offensive identity. Finally.Obviously, the first one is that they just lack offensive top-level talent.
Josh Green, though, is worse. The Jazz just didn’t guard him for multiple possessions when he was in the game.
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