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Game 8: Jazz 140, Raptors 133 (3OT)
Posted by: TACOREV on November 12th, 2012
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.After a roller coaster of thrills and pull-your-hair out aggravation, the Utah Jazz manage to come away with their first road win of the season at Toronto.
Millsap led the way with 34 & 9 and was absolutely huge in the extra periods, knocking down a couple of big 3’s down the stretch.
Jefferson finished with 24 & 17, including a 3-pointer (yes, a 3-pointer) just before the end of regulation to tie it up at 104. I went back and forth a half dozen times during this game from wanting to strangle Jefferson to wanting to high-five him, as his defense and boxing out were often atrocious, but he came up big when it mattered most, at the end of regulation and the overtimes.
Foye was enormous during regulation before fouling out in one of the overtimes. He scored 20 points on just seven shots, hitting four 3’s and 8-of-9 free throws. Foye was almost single-handedly keeping the Jazz in the game during regulation when they were getting thoroughly outplayed.
Favors played 45 minutes, including all three overtime periods when Corbin kept Millsap, Jefferson, and Favors all in the game. He scored 15 points with six boards and four blocks, providing a fantastic defensive presence all night.
In all, seven of the nine Jazz players that played finished in double figures, including 17 from both Marvin and Mo and 12 from Hayward. Mo also dished out 14 dimes.
DeMar DeRozen is a freaking amazing player. He had 37, 8, & 6 for Toronto to lead all scorers. This guy has some huge potential. Linas Kleiza and Jose Calderon each scored 20.
The Jazz should have lost this game, period. Toronto flat out played better in regulation, but thanks largely to Foye and some last minute heroics from some of the vets, the Jazz got the game into overtime where they stepped up their game and eventually pulled away in the third go around.
But hey, I’ll take a road W any way I can.
Up next is at Boston Wednesday night.
Jazz players of the game: Paul Millsap and Randy Foye
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I was missing this fighting games… not a better first road win ever:
1) This is the end of Hatward’s started era?
2) We can win road games
3) We have a lovely problem with our bigs
4) Foye is the man that we miss last season, finally we have. Guys let convice ous Hayward “baby ass face” dont have.
5) Raptors learned something: “Dont let an NBA player alone at the 3 point area”!!
6) Favors as a starter for williams and Foye for Hayward? mmmm this could be good… Mo-Foye-Millsap-Favors-Jefferson or Mo-Foye-Millsap-Favors-Kanter….
Jazz player of the game: Millsap
TRADE JEFFERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO JAZZ GO
I’ll have to say, I liked Corbin’s rotation choices against the Raptors. Foye isn’t consistently putting up big games, as he’s had a couple stinkers, but by my count this is at least his THIRD big game for the Jazz in only 8 games. HUGE upgrade over Miles/Howard/Bell. My only knock is that he is slow to guard guys with explosive first steps.
Still, the fact that we never led in regulation and had to rely on an Al Jefferson three to tie the game at the end is concerning. A win’s a win though and I’ll take it.
Foye may be better on offense but on defense Hayward is miles better. When playing against any decent SG they will have a clear lane against Foye.
We arent Golden State who only care about scoring and forget about defense, which is why Golden State are rubbish are we have a good shot of getting in the playoffs
@Dean… Good point the d of Hayward is more important tahn he s shooting skills, I regreat what I say. So Mo- Hayward- Millsap- Favors- Kanter is the better line
Great point Dean.
I am really disappointed with Foye’s defense. He can hit the three, but so could Kerr and Novak, and I still wouldn’t want to see them guard quality SGs. I think Foye, Mo, and Tinsley should never been on the court at the same time, any combination of two. Mo is too small to guard a SG, Foye is to slow and not long enough to bother shots from quality SGs, and Tinsley is just to old and slow to guard most PGs, and too small to guard any SG. If Mo is in there, Hayward or Burks has to be the 2; if Foye is in there, Hayward or Burks has to be the 2. Otherwise, all teams like Toronto are going to post up Foye or drive right by him like last night. Foye had no answer, it was hard to watch.
Favors’ block at the end of regulation was just as big as Jefferson’s three (maybe not as cool cause he does it a lot, but just as important to our success). Favors, Jefferson, Millsap, Foye were fantastic!!! This win is big for us and hopefully will give us some good momentum going forward…
It wasn’t Hayward’s most glorious game, but that player is a great all-around player and has a huge ceiling to grow into. Not the greatest shooter, but good on a drive and always a threat to play a good pass from that drive.
Did somebody mention defense?
I am kind of glad the team finally woke up (until the next game?) and noticed that winning games takes effort and hustle. We get beaten to easy baskets way too often, especially by those pesky penetrators.
Let’s hope the defensive performance starts picking up.