Happy Thursday night another gamer actual NBA basketball to discuss here no gimmicky rankings or mocks or

Celery cap stuff on this podcast. It's all just hardcore NBA basketball let's start with

Jazz nuggets really the jazz

Controlled this game from the outset Danny. Well, yeah, they especially controlled it at the outset Denver had a

Absolutely disastrous start to the game offensively they missed their first 10 three pointers

I think they had eight turnovers either in the first quarter or close to it. So Utah went out but but still

Denver went 22 to 19 that that after the first quarter

But I thought the jazz played a lot better. You know, they had that big a 33 to 15 second quarter

And that's when they built the lead that largely largely held through the rest of the game and

Something that I thought I thought was was a challenge for the jazz and and as a worthwhile place to start here

It was something that you tweeted about during the game is the jazz dealing with being a little bit shorthanded in terms of their

Garb rotation and that that had some consequences

Well, the jazz have done well when Donovan Mitchell has been the primary ballhandler and has started at point card

And he had another efficient game at in this one although until he scored six straight points late that wasn't quite the case

But 24 points for him four of eight from downtown had five assists

But I thought the other guy who really stepped up because Grayson Allen did not have a particularly impressive game was Joe

Engels Joe Engels only four out of 12 and two of nine from three but ten assists and really the nugs did not have an answer for him

Running pick and roll perhaps that answer should have been to make him shoot it a little bit more since he only took three

Two point attempts that in the entire game

But really they were the nuggets were absolutely scuffling

Defensively with Yokec sir trying to have him lay back

But they weren't really reaping the benefits that you normally have of someone laying back because they were still having someone tag

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