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Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

POSTCAST - Utah Jazz STUN Cleveland Cavaliers and Donovan Mitchell in SOLID runaway win

Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Utah Jazz stun the Cleveland Cavaliers with a dominant 123-112 victory, shaking off a 55-point blowout in their previous game. Is this the turning point for Will Hardy’s squad? David Locke and Ron Boone break down the Jazz’s relentless half-court execution, highlighting how Lauri Markkanen’s physical, multifaceted offense and Keyonte George’s efficient play powered the upset. The duo examines how Utah’s defensive strategy stifled Donovan Mitchell, keeping the Cavaliers out of rhythm and exposing their lack of continuity.

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0:00.0

basketball is really strange and storylines coming in where the jazz coming up a 55 point loss

0:09.4

and the cavaliers having won five of seven and sure enough the jazz really outplayed the cavaliers

0:15.2

for 36 of 48 minutes tonight and rolled to a rather rudimentary 123 112 win no clutch time at all in this

0:25.4

one and the jazz beat the cavaliers postcast is now David Locke along with Ron Boone with you as the

0:34.8

jazz I'd say stun the NBA stunned stunned the cavaliers tonight, 123, 1-12.

0:40.8

Obviously, having Lowry back changes everything, having Nurkits back changes an awful lot.

0:45.5

Really having Lowry back changes everything.

0:48.2

What did you see tonight, Ron Boone, it allowed the Jazz to do this?

0:51.5

Well, one of the reasons I asked the coach about the game plan was I just see that everything seemed to fall into place for the most. I won't say everything, but you know, you have to improvise a lot sometimes out there for and make the right reeds when there's a counter to what you're trying to do. And I didn't think that jazz had too much of a problem getting the, I'm talking about the

1:11.9

offensive end, getting the type of shots that they wanted or they were able to be creative.

1:18.7

And, you know, they went to the free throw line, what, 28 times here tonight because of that.

1:24.5

Did not feel to me, I'll go back and look at it. I can pull these numbers up.

1:27.4

It did not feel to me like the, the Cavaliers are not a very good transition defensive team. In fact, they're terrible. They're 28th in the league. It felt to me like the Jazz beat them in the half court tonight that they executed in the half court. They wanted to get Garland and Merrill in actions and make them guard larger guys. so it felt to me a little bit tonight like this was not a game where, I mean,

1:48.7

the Cavaliers coming in tonight in defense after a turnover, 28th in the NBA.

1:55.8

I don't think that's how they beat them.

1:57.2

Their fifth best after make.

1:58.7

I thought they got it tonight with just half court execution. Good half court execution and kept them off the free throw line. The

2:04.5

jazz went to the normal 28 free throw a game and I think the jazz still lead, what are the

2:10.5

second, third in the league and free throw attempts. But, you know, they get to the free throw line

2:14.7

28 times because of their execution, as you just mentioned down in the paint. But, you know they get to the free throw line 28 times because of their execution as you just

2:18.1

mentioned down in the paint but you know I didn't think that the counter of the

2:25.8

cavaliers hurt the jazz a at all that they took advantage of it jazz tonight the final number

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