As a team, the Jazz were phenomenal defensively tonight, especially in the first half where they had one of their best performances of the whole season.
Talking about Rudy Gobert’s defensive excellence is kind of repetitive at this point, but here are the numbers: the Nuggets made just 22 of their 45 shots within four feet of the basket, or 48 percent. Gobert (and his teammates, to be fair) basically just turned layups into averagely-efficient shots. And then there’s Nikola Jokic’s whole game, in which the Nuggets star scored just 16 on 5-15 shooting, adding five fouls and five turnovers.