{"id":768712,"date":"2022-12-16T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=768712"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:23:52","slug":"jordan-clarkson-season-high-points-in-jazz-ot-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/jordan-clarkson-season-high-points-in-jazz-ot-win\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We All Grinding&#8217;: Jordan Clarkson Drops a Season-High 39 Points in Jazz OT Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Utah+Jazz\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Utah+Jazz\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> guard <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jordan+Clarkson\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jordan+Clarkson\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Clarkson<\/a> helped led his Utah squad to a huge victory over the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Pelicans+\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Pelicans+\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> on Thursday night at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clarkson understood the assignment and went off for a season-high 39 points in the gritty OT thriller. Clarkson shot 15-of-26 from the field to go along with a season-high eight rebounds and seven threes too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the game, Clarkson was asked what it was like to be in a zone, to which he replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt feels good definitely, get the shot going, moving the ball. I think the big thing for us we just kept playing. Even though I was hot, we wasn\u2019t forcing the ball to me. We were just playing together, moving the ball, and making shots, that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/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\">\u201cWe all grinding\u2019, we all hungry. When it gets down to those clutch moments we just try to make big shots.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanClarksons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JordanClarksons<\/a> joins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsiren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Sportsiren<\/a> on the \ud83c\udfa4.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WalkoffInterview?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WalkoffInterview<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lhmauto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lhmauto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/osjv5RU2pN\">pic.twitter.com\/osjv5RU2pN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahjazz\/status\/1603622337420460033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Clarkson was then asked about the teams clutchness and how they responded in overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust big plays at the end. We all grinding, we all hungry, so when it comes down to those clutch moments we just try to make big shots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clarkson went on to credit teammates Lauri Markkanen, Kelly Olynyk, and Malik Beasley for their performances not only in the game, but throughout the season so far as well. <\/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\">a closer look \ud83e\udd33<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TakeNote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TakeNote<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lsnNB1fqla\">https:\/\/t.co\/lsnNB1fqla<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fZ9EV61nkC\">pic.twitter.com\/fZ9EV61nkC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahjazz\/status\/1603602786314092544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson helped led his Utah squad to a huge victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday night at home. Clarkson understood the assignment and went off for a season-high 39 points in the gritty OT thriller. Clarkson shot 15-of-26 from the field to go along with a season-high eight rebounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":768739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,63826,62493,62721],"tags":[10363,2364,29431,12041,9499,13008],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-768712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","category-utah-jazz","tag-jordan-clarkson","tag-kelly-olynyk","tag-lauri-markkanen","tag-malik-beasley","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-utah-jazz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768712","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768746,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768712\/revisions\/768746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768712"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=768712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}