Here are three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 114-109 win over the Dallas Mavericks from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.
Gobert’s very limby here, and definitely has his arm across Doncic’s body as he drives. But Doncic does exactly the thing that attackers can’t do under this year’s rulebook: he draws his arm up and hooks the defender’s arm in order to create the contact. If he does it in a natural way, it’s a foul, if he’s contact seeking, it’s not supposed to be this year. Mavs fans are furious this wasn’t called, and I see their point... but I also see why it was a non-call.
Beautiful. Splitting, spinning, moving, and finally getting a defender in space and hitting him with precise footwork. He’s become such a great offensive player. But naturally, the Mavericks weren’t necessarily happy with that, and so they became more aggressive in defending Mitchell on screens or in their zone.
So let’s do it better. Let’s do that again, but this time put Bojan Bogdanovic in the corner. I can always count on Bogdanovic to take his open corner threes, and he’s going to make a really high percentage of those, too. The result was the biggest shot of the game:against a well-coached, aggressive team defense like the Mavs have. Quin Snyder has more spacing weapons than any other coach in the league, and he puts them in good positions to succeed. Goodness, that was such an intense game.
• Royce O’Neale was getting killed on screens today, just bouncing off the screening man, often trying to earn an offensive foul whistle to no avail. It meant a ton of situations where the Mavs could just attack Gobert two-on-one, and that’s no good. He was really physical on ball and did some really nice ball-denial defense late in the game, though, limiting the Mavs to just one opportunity late.
• It’s funny... the Trent Forrest lack-of-jump-shot just kills you. Kills you. It short-circuits possessions in the worst way. There are no point guards who are that reluctant to shoot in NBA playoff lineups — save Ben Simmons. And you know what happens to him in the playoffs. And yet Forrest does just enough good stuff — a poke-away steal, pick-and-roll savvy, above-average defense — that it’s hard to say that he’s not a playoff player. I could truly see it going either way.
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