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Kyle FilipowskiKeyonte George and Brice Sensabaugh: 21 years old. Jaden Springer: 22 years old. Johnny Juzang: Just 23 years old. Opposite, Rayan Rupert: 20 years old. Donovan Clingan and Shaedon Sharpe: 21 years old. Jabari Walker: 22 years old. Wednesday evening, the match between jazz and the Blazers could very well have been an NCAA meeting by relying only in the age of the two teams. Insured to see their season end at the end of this week, the two franchises took the opportunity to give playing time to their young shoots, and Kyle Filipowski took the best match of her young career. And show that he followed the last final of the university championship, the thriller between the new champion Florida and Houston.
Like the Gators and the cougars on Monday evening, jazz and blazers were shoulder to shoulder in the last minutes, with Portland in the role of Houston, in mind on the display board. But the jazz managed to tear the overtime while Portland had the ball to lead from five or even six points after an offensive rebound on a franc launch failed by Shaedon Sharpe at 37.8 seconds from the end.
16 points in the fourth quarter and extension
The Utah staff notably used the last minutes of the last NCAA final and the errors that cost the coronation to the cougars to show their players what to avoid in the “money time”.
« The execution of our actions at the end of the match is what matters most to me “Assured at a press conference le coach Will Hardy. « We studied the ends of meeting all the season, we had good times, others difficult. But we also looked at many other NBA situations or during the NCAA final. We always try to learn about certain game situations, and I think the team has done a very good job. »
Jazz has given itself a chance thanks to Kyle Filipowski. Duke's former interior brought his own to a point on an interception to which he had contributed by trapping Jabari Walker rather than making an immediate fault. Then he sent the two teams to an extension of a dunk three seconds from the end.
« We have retained from the NCAA final some lessons on how to rule out the game “Confirmed Kyle Filipowski to the media. “” On the rebound, even if we almost spoiled the end of the match on this blazers-free throw-in. In terms of 'spacing', it is as much on half-terrain as on the recovery on the side of the parquet where Coach Hardy begins the action with three players in our camp simply to give us a better chance to put the ball in play. There are a lot that we learned from the last two minutes of this final. »
Measure the share of hope, one of the learning of the brain Filipowski
The course was well recited since jazz went to seek its 17th victory of the season during the extension, the conclusion of a match played with a feeling of emergency in the last moments, which we have not frequently seen at the Delta Center this season. And what Houston had not been able to do on Monday, rather choosing to let time even time being carried out in the last minute.
« In the NBA, we always think of the next blow compared to the university game » compare Kyle Filipowski. « We always try to play the 'two-for-one' (quickly play a possession in the last minute to make sure you have time and the last ball of a period), Even if we were led at the end of the match, because it gives us one more opportunity with the ball before the buzzer. It is also one of the conclusions that we have withdrawn from the NCAA final. Houston could have done it but did not do it. You must always realize how much possessions it can stay with less than a minute to play. In NCAA, there are usually one or two. Tonight there were more than three I think. So you have to somehow be aware of how much you can believe it before the buzzer. »
Rare performance in the history of jazz
The interior has never given up, with 10 points and 8 rebounds in the fourth quarter alone, before adding seven new units in overtime to definitively ensure jazz victory. And after the experience of Walker Kessler as “Stretch 5” to let him take his chance from afar, the quality of shooting of Kyle Filipowski as Pivot fleeing borne fruit on Wednesday. More than its 2/5 behind the arc, it was its offshore attraction power that offered him possibilities, as on his dunk to equalize at the end of regulatory time, where he wins in his feint at seven meters Matisse Thybulle to open the path of the arch.
« 'Flip' has done a good job this evening to use the threat it represents 3-point to do many things that he also knows how to do well “Appreciated Will Hardy. “” I often talk about the balance of things. While 'Flip' worked really hard on his shot, and he progressed on it, I had the impression that there were times when this balance was not there. It is not that shooting 3-point is a bad thing, and if Flip played 34 minutes every night, I would ask him to take a little more than five, but tonight, he read the game on numerous times. He used the reputation of a good shooter he built in his early career to better attack the basket. »
With 30 points at 13/17, 18 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 interceptions, Kyle Filipowski simply signed one of the most beautiful statistical lines of a rookie this season. And the fifth player only in the history of the franchise of Salt Lake City to make a match in 30-15-5 after Karl Malone (twenty times), Carlos Boozer, Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap.
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