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Through the first few games of the new Utah Jazz season, the roster has come with a few pleasant surprises to have stood out in their initial sample size in showing off their work done from this summer.
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Cade Cunningham gained his first All-Star selection last season. The Detroit Pistons guard appears well on his way to earning that distinction again with the way he's playing early this season.
The Utah Jazz pulled together a big-time win vs. the Boston Celtics amid their five-game road trip that lifted them to their third victory on the new year, and a game where the Jazz saw some positive across multiple names on the roster.
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Payton Pritchard on how historic bad shooting night impacted Boston Celtics vs. Utah Jazz
The Boston Celtics put up the worst 3-point shooting night of any team in NBA history with at least 50 attempts against the Utah Jazz in a 105-103 home loss on Monday (Nov. 3) night. Given the 3-point heavy style sometimes referred to as "Mazzulla Ball" (named after Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla) is by definition a high variance style of play,
For the first time in 27 years, a Utah Jazz player has scored 50 points in a regular-season game. They needed every one of them, too. Lauri Markkanen’s 51-point, 14-rebound performance pushed the Jazz to an overtime win over the Phoenix Suns on Monday.
That shift came within the frontcourt in the form of two notable swaps. Instead of starting the combination of Kyle Filipowski and Walker Kessler at the four and five spots, Taylor Hendricks and Jusuf Nurkic would be the starting pairing to start the night for Utah–– one move made due to injury, and the other being a coaching decision.
Behind Collin Sexton’s strong play against his old team, sharpshooting from Miles Bridges and Kon Knueppel, Charlotte wins its third game.
What have we seen from the Jazz's core of youth over the season's first two weeks? Some real growth — and some real struggles. Here's what to know.