POSTCAST - Utah Jazz's Defensive Struggles Exposed by Knicks' 70 Points in the Paint

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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David Locke, radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Jazz NBA Insider, and Ron Boone break down the New York Knicks' dominant 119-103 victory over the Utah Jazz at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks, despite missing Jalen Brunson, exploited the Jazz's weak defense, scoring an astounding 70 points in the paint. Locke and Boone dissect the Jazz's defensive collapse, highlighting the team's inability to protect the rim and transition effectively.

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0:00.0	The Knicks were without Jalen Brunson, but that did not stop them.
0:04.9	Instead, they got monster performances from a multitude of guys,
0:08.4	and they treated the rim like it was a buffet on New Year's, and it was free.
0:13.7	And the Jazz defense did not exist there.
0:15.4	We'll talk about it.
0:16.0	All coming up is the Knicks win tonight over the Utah Jazz at Madison Square Garden.
0:27.0	You are Locked on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:31.9	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:39.0	Happy New Year and welcome to Lock on Jazz's postcast, David Locke, along with Ron Boone after the New York Knicks defeat the Utah Jazz final score.
0:47.9	Tonight, not on any scoreboard anywhere near me, so I have to look down here, 119 to 103.
0:56.4	Ron, the jazz started well, but the story of the night is the nicks take over half their shots or actually maybe by the end of one
1:00.8	under at the rim excuse me david in a day and age you're all choked up i understand in a date
1:07.3	70 points in the paint i mean that's it's in it's in just, and not even in the paint.
1:11.4	Like, this wasn't floaters.
1:12.4	They just lived at the rim.
1:15.9	That is, that is a crazy, crazy number.
1:19.6	The league averages 32% shots at the rim.
1:22.4	And let me just put it this way.
1:24.2	And this is, I think, what's most revealing to the jazz performance tonight.
1:27.9	The view in the league about rim shots is that the defense dictates the amount of shots you take at the
1:33.8	rim and the offense dictates how many threes they take in other words like if you want to take
1:40.2	away the rim as a defense you just take away the rim yes mike Mike Budenholzer did it with Brooke Lopez for those years.
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