Utah Jazz at Oklahoma City Thunder: Keys to the Game
Key Stat – Three-Point Percentage
The last time the Jazz and Thunder faced off, the difference in the outcome of the game (especially considering that Utah lost by just two points) was in the three-point shooting. Although OKC didn’t exactly rip the nets as they finished the game shooting just 30 percent from deep, they still thoroughly outmatched Utah’s final percentage of 23.8.
With only five made threes in the contest, the Jazz without a doubt struggled majorly in that aspect. Of course part of that could have been very much due to the fact that they were playing in their third game in four days and simply didn’t have the legs to convert from deep.
In Utah’s latest contest against Washington, they went a blazing 45.8 percent from behind the arc and that’s more like the kind of performance they’ll need to have if they hope to defeat the Thunder in tomorrow’s contest.
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On the other end of the court, the Thunder are currently ranked dead last in the league in three-point shooting this season at 32.2 percent. Beyond that, in losses they’re shooting worse than 30 percent as a team.
Therefore, Utah will need to take enormous advantage of this by not allowing a bad three-point shooting Thunder team to get any momentum from deep while converting much better on their end than they did the last time around.