Rudy Gobert has now become the 2 times NBA Defensive Player of the Year and now he is also a good stopper in the league. But even now, he would not want to be the one to mess with the Utah Jazz.
He said, “I could not like to guard ourselves.” As it happens to be, Brooklyn Nets also did not enjoy this game as well.
Joe Ingles score his career-high of 27 points while Gobert scored 22 points along with 18 rebounds as the Jazz won over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night for 118-107 victory.
Donavon Mitchell made his appendance after one-game absence due to illness to score 25 points; 14 of which were scored in the 4th quarter, while Bojan Bogdanovic scored 18 points. Utah Jazz opened the first quarter with a lead of 20 points and then shunned every attempt of Brooklyn Nets to overcome that deficit.
Mitchell said, “We are kind of in a groove.”
As for Kyrie Irving, he scored 32 points with the season-high of 11 assists in his 2nd game appearance after his shoulder injury. It seemed as if he was trying mostly to shoot the Nets back in the game but Utah jazz did not let him do that as they won 15th of their last 16 games.
Irving said, “You look at them on the film and watch a few of their games and there is the reason that they are currently 15-1 on their last 16 games.”
Spencer Dinwiddie added 17 points for the Nets whose 2-game winning streak ended with this loss. as for Utah Jazz, they have won the last 4 meetings against the Brooklyn Nets as Jordan Clarkson helped jazz with his 13 points coming off the bench.
Up next, Utah jazz will have a game on Thursday against the New Orleans Pelicans while Brooklyn Nets will take on Philadelphia 76ers.
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