{"id":744632,"date":"2022-04-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=744632"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:50:58","slug":"mavericks-continue-to-roll-sealing-game-3-road-victory-against-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/newswire\/mavericks-continue-to-roll-sealing-game-3-road-victory-against-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Continue To Roll, Sealing Game 3 Road Victory Against Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the availability of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Luka+Doncic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luka Doncic<\/a> continues to be the storyline of the opening series between the Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz, it hasn\u2019t mattered to this point. On Thursday night, the Mavericks got a huge win on the road in Utah to go up 2-1 in the series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mavs pulled out to an early lead, but the Jazz chipped away in the third quarter. However, the Dallas defense showed out in the fourth quarter to secure the 126-118 victory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe made timely shots and we made timely stops,&#8221; said Mavs coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=jason+kidd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jason Kidd<\/a> following the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the absence of Doncic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=jalen+brunson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> continued to play like a star. After his 31-point performance in Game 3, he\u2019s now averaging 32.0 points per contest in the series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JALEN BRUNSON IS SO GOOD <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2DuKl7wf3v\">pic.twitter.com\/2DuKl7wf3v<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1517347874245275648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Utah is in a tough situation after losing its first matchup of the series at home. Even without Doncic taking the floor yet again, the Mavericks have taken control of the series with a 2-1 lead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mavs were once again on fire from beyond the arc on Thursday night, converting on 18 of their 42 triples as a team. This was again sparked by forward <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=maxi+kleber\" target=\"_blank\">Maxi Kleber<\/a>, who is now 12-16 through his past two games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re a hot player, you\u2019re a hot player,\u201d said Kleber following Game 3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Jazz, the offense still hasn\u2019t clicked in this series. The slump towards the end of the regular season has continued into the postseason to this point. While they scored 118 points tonight, it wasn\u2019t enough as the scoring was stagnant in the first and fourth quarter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, Utah looked solid offensively shooting 56.5% from the floor. It just wasn\u2019t consistent enough to get the job done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After scoring zero points in Game 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=mike+conley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Conley<\/a> produced 21 points on 14 shots Thursday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=bojan+bogdanovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bojan Bogdanovic<\/a> scored 24 points while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=donovan+mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> produced 32 of his own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind, Mitchell still believes everything starts with defense for this Jazz team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It starts defensively, and everything else falls into place,\u201d he said postgame.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time this series, the rebounding battle was balanced. Both teams pulled down 32 boards on the night. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This series is far from over, even if Doncic does return at some point. The Jazz have the talent to make things interesting down the stretch, and the Mavericks know that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of this team,\u201d Brunson said postgame. \u201cI\u2019m proud of the fight that we have. They\u2019re a team that\u2019s not going to quit. They\u2019re a good team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Game 4 will take place on Saturday in Utah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the availability of Luka Doncic continues to be the storyline of the opening series between the Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz, it hasn\u2019t mattered to this point. On Thursday night, the Mavericks got a huge win on the road in Utah to go up 2-1 in the series.&nbsp; The Mavs pulled out to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":744631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62699,62493,62721],"tags":[106,9617,9918,33549,10043,9508,13008],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-744632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-mavericks","category-newswire","category-utah-jazz","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-luka-doncic","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-spencer-dinwiddie","tag-utah-jazz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744684,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744632\/revisions\/744684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744632"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=744632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}