Tonight’s game might be the closest facsimile of 90′s basketball you’ll see in 2018. Memphis aggressively helped, packed the paint, and dared the Jazz to figure it out. They couldn’t.
It’s a strategy that makes sense: as on fire as the Jazz were from three in the first half on Friday against the Warriors, the real biggest offensive weapon that the Jazz have is their rolling big men, Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert. So Memphis coach J.B Bickerstaff told his big men to stay between the roll man and the basket, taking away the Jazz’s favorite option, the high pass.