· Felt like you could see this one coming from a million miles away. The defense that forces the most turnovers with their relentless pressure against a young team that has a propensity for turnovers.
· The Jazz turnovers were really something. 19 in the first half. They had 7 in the first quarter but most of them came late in the quarter. 5 came in the final 5:32 of the quarter afte the Jazz went to the bench. After that the deluge of turnovers never stopped. They had 12 in the 2nd quarter.
· 18 of the Jazz turnovers were live ball turnovers and the Thunder had a field day running off those turnovers.
· Jazz turned it over on 31% of their possessions the most of any team in any game all year
· Why so many turnovers? The Thunder defense is great. They pressure and get into you. The Jazz didn’t own their space. You have to be very physical and you have to own your space. There will be no easy passes and no easy routes so you have to own them yourself. This team hasn’t faced anything like that this season.
· The starters were really good at the beginning of the game and at the beginning of the 3rd quarter
· The Jazz shot the ball great when they got a shot off. They also got good shots. They took 11 corner threes and they made 17 of 20 at the rim.
· The Jazz took 35% of their shots at the rim and 45% of their shots as threes. This should be the goal every night. That is a great ratio. The problem was the 30% of the possession where no shot got off because of turnovers.
· The Jazz defense fell apart in the third quarter. The Thunder had an offensive rating of 181 and made 12 of their first 13 shots.
· Shai and Jalen Williams did all the damage in the 3rd quarter with each of them dropping 15 points.
· The Jazz had Lauri Markkanen and Walker Kessler guard Shai for a lot of the game and the length seemed to bother him in the halfcourt. In the first half he didn’t shot a free throw and he was just 5 of 13.
· For a little while the Jazz figured out they were able to drive into the lane and bring the help defender up to stop the ball and then that left Walker behind the defense for a dunk. Then that disappeared.
· Keyonte took all 6 of his first quarter shots as three point shots. He takes a tremendous high percentage of his first quarter shots as threes. Coming into the game it was 33 of his 45 shots in the first 6 minutes of the 1st quarter are for three. If he could get some easier shots it may help him get started. He has been much more patient offensively and in turn has been more efficient recently.
