At the end of a thriller, Jazz has the last word! Rudy Gobert clutch on both sides; Darius Garland has tried everything

Superb match between the Cavaliers and the Jazz, which finally turns to the advantage of the Jazz in the money time 109-108. Rudy Gobert notably succeeded in clutch actions, a big dunk and two important counters, in particular to repel the assaults of a super Darius Garland, author of 31 points at 11/19 including 5/8 from afar, but who misses the basket of the win.

Donovan Mitchell comes out a huge match with 35 points at 12/21 including 4/8 at 3-pts and 6 assists. Rudy Gobert, little in sight in attack, did the job on the other side of the field with 6 points at 3/6, 20 rebounds, 3 assists and 5 blocks. He continues his record streak of at least 50% with 58 games. Bojan bogdanovic adds 16 points at 4/9 away and Rudy Gay 15 points off the bench. Jarrett Allen signs 17 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks.

The thread of the match

The meeting started at a very high pace offensively, with a shower of award-winning shots and in particular very hot Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland. After less than 9 minutes, the Jazz were leading 28-26 and finally after a quarter they took the lead 32-29 with 15 points from Mitchell. The two teams continued to stick together and thanks to 3-pts from Bojan Bogdanovic, Royce O’Neale and a foul on Mitchell behind the arc, the Jazz entered the locker room in the lead 60-55 .

It was not until the second half to see the Jazz make the first mini-break of the match, still with a big outside success and on award-winning baskets from O’Neale and Mitchell, the gap fell to 11 points. The Jazz kept a ten point lead and despite an attempt to return before the start of the last quarter of the premises, Rudy Gay planted 2 award-winning shots, 91-82 on a last basket from Ricky Rubio.

We thought the game would definitely change at the start of last, with 3-point shots from Clarkson and COnley to open the quarter: +15. But it is bad to know these Cavaliers around 2021-22. The latter spent a violent 15-0 under the impetus of the duo Cedi Osman and Rubio. We then had a very, very high level end of the game with first two teams who went straight with Mitchell on one side and Garland on the other, 100-99 Cleveland then 102-102, 104- 104 and finally 107-106 Utah on a 3-point shot from Conley. Rudy Gobert came into play in the last 3 minutes, on the block, on the rebound, and he gave his team 3 points on a huge dunk.

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Darius Garland reduced the score, then following a failure by Bogdanovic, Garland had the ball to pass in front, countered by Gobert. Mitchell was picked up by Mobley to give Garland one last opportunity, well defended by Conley, who had to shoot from 9m, and Gobert avoided an offensive rebound. Game over