Utah Jazz vs Chicago Bulls Post Game | Keyonte George game winner! | Hoops Nerd Show

Utah Jazz vs Chicago Bulls Post Game | Keyonte George game winner! | Hoops Nerd Show

The Utah Jazz get a big win against the Chicago Bulls. Keonte George game winner. Let’s talk about it. It’s the Hoopser Show. [Music] All right, guys. Like the video. Subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already. Let’s talk about the Bulls really quick. Uh it’s clear the Josh Giddy show is on in Chicago. Although I didn’t realize they had lost four straight going into this one. It’s now five straight losses for them. And one of the reasons why is they do a lot of stupid things. like dumb, stupid plays that just like they really really should have won this game, but they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in this one with multiple turnovers, multiple dumb plays. They’re switching on defense is ridiculous. Like, you know, Lowry Markin was open for so many threes in this one. And if you’re a Bulls fan, you’ve just got to be like losing your mind that they can’t figure out simple switches to guard Lowry Markin. This Bulls team is not it. Back to mediocrity for the for the Bulls. The midlevel Bulls are back. The Bulls. We know that’s what they’ll always be. Maybe I shouldn’t say too much because that seems to be where the Jazz are going. But anyways, uh this Bulls team, I mean, good for them. Josh Giddy has turned into a really nice player for them. He has a triple double tonight. Monster numbers. Uh what is it? 26 points, 13 assists, 12 rebounds. And then Kobe White in his return had 27. Uh just just uh nice stuff for them. Uh Bouselis, who I was interested to watch, you know, he had 18 points, six rebounds, and an assist. He didn’t impact quite as much. I mean, this was a triple overtime game, so these numbers are a little inflated, but I was kind of, you know, everyone’s been losing their mind over Bouselis and and he’s good, and he’s definitely a steal at where they got him. I don’t know if he’s turning out to be just, we’ll see. I’m going to watch him more, but you get you definitely can see it at times with him with what he brings, his athleticism, that size, and he does shoot a high percentage from three again tonight, two for five. And that was kind of a swing skill for him. So, you know, this Bulls team is interesting. They’re on a five-game losing streak, though, and we’ll see how they kind of end up going. Utah and Chicago now. Uh, interestingly enough. Utah’s 5-8, right there with Chicago in the standings. So, uh, the Jazz are kind of getting into that realm of the Chicago Bulls. So, good for Utah, I guess. All right, let’s go to the Utah Jazz. Gamewinner by Keonte George. Got to be happy for him. It was basically a tale of two halves for him. His first half was just he could not hit a shot. Terrible. Second half he really turns it on. Still took 27 shots for 33 points. But that’s because he’s such a good he’s so good at drawing fouls. And this really this team this year has become the Keonte George Lowry Markin team. Markin also just incredible tonight. You can’t argue. Uh just not huge production from everyone else. Sim Kyla continues to be on this team. It doesn’t make any sense at all. Uh it honestly is just annoying to me at this point that he’s on the team even at all. Let alone the fact that he’s starting. It just it’s kind of dumb. It just feels like someone made a stubborn stand on this thing. And I don’t know if it’s the coach, the front office, or whatever, but spiky starting is I guess just going to be what it is. You know, when we look back at the last three years of this Jazz rebuild, they’ve consistently put the development of players like Kelly Oolen and Jordan Clarkson and Colin Ston and players like that over their actual young players development. And we’re doing it again this year. I at least the Jazz front office traded those three older players and went younger and lo and behold the Jazz are a you know winning games more than I would like but they’re winning games. It just shows when you go younger and more athletic and get go with your young talent you draft that you win more games or at least you become you improve gradually over time. We’ll see how this season kind of plays out. But just you know I don’t get it. I really don’t get it. It actually bothers me at this point that he starts. It’s stupid. It makes no sense. It’s dumb, you know, especially when you have Walter Clayton who looked really good to start the year. He’s just getting DMPS now for what? It’s dumb. Uh Lowry Markin has been playing just awesome this year. And there you could argue it’s against bad teams, but guess what? All the superstars do this against bad teams. So Markin’s playing incredible. if if the goal was to raise his trade value, they’ve done it. He’s awesome. But I don’t even know if that’s what it is. I think Ryan Smith just likes winning games and he really likes Larry Markin and I think that’s it. I don’t think it’s really that complicated. But Markin played fantastic. I mean, he was just playing he’s been playing awesome this season. You can’t argue it. He had that little mini slump in the middle which kind of co coincided with Utah playing good teams, but when he’s had his opportunities, he’s just done great. And you can’t argue with these numbers. 47 points. Yes, it’s triple overtime, but he was hitting big-time shots. 47 points, two steals, two assists, seven rebounds. And I was actually for the first time impressed with his defense this year. Like he made some big defensive plays. He had that block shot at the end of the game, made some nice plays, which actually gave me a little bit of hope that maybe he can play better defense, right? And you know, for those of us who are pro tank like me at this point, for my own sanity, I’m just praying that we win that lottery, that we just because if Markin’s playing like this, then really if like the best outcome, if you could choose the best outcome is that you just keep Markin and win the lottery. The thing is is that’s what they tried to do the first two seasons post uh Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobar. It didn’t work. You know, for everyone that’s like, “Oh, the Atlanta Hawks won the lottery.” Well, you know, we didn’t win the lottery. First two seasons we were in that same similar range. We didn’t win. You know, maybe this is the year with like the lowest odds possible, I guess. I don’t know. I I still think the Jazz are going to be kind of in that five to seven range at this point, but man, these are the ones that stress me out. But I don’t want to be ultra negative. I just want to say marketing was incredible today. played fantastic. 47 points, seven rebounds, two assists, two steals. Just inarguable that he was awesome and 13 free throws. I mean, the Bulls didn’t really have a guy that could guard him. You know, they had Aoro guarding him for a lot of the game. I, you know, he’s just doing a good job taking advantages of size matchups. Uh, so just awesome game from Markin. He was great. Ysef Nerkach tonight, five points, 14 rebounds, five assists, three steals. He hit a clutch free throw. He missed one. Oh, this freaking guy. But, uh, five points, 14 rebounds. He puts up numbers still and he’s like a walking I don’t even know how to describe Yousef Nerkage, but he just still plays basketball and he’s really big and he knows how to do a lot of things. He’s like the accumulation. If like a player was just a ton of veteran savvy moves, that’s what he is. And uh he still, you know, I don’t know. He was the biggest player on the court. I mean, even with Vousvich, who kind of spreads the floor. By the way, I hate watching Vousvich, but Vousvich was pretty decent tonight. Vousvich is to me ah he’s like that player that’s just not very good but will do enough good things that you’re like okay he’s hitting threes I guess so you know I don’t know I don’t know if Vousvich is honestly that much better than Ysef Nerkich if we’re being honest I guess it’s the shooting but I don’t know uh Ace Bailey had a tough night because of foul trouble that was basically it and some of the fouls he was getting were really lame. Some were learning experiences for him, but sometimes the NBA doesn’t allow certain players to guard. And tonight, that was Ace Bailey. Like that last that sixth foul he got was so lame. That was so lame. So, he just got six crazy fouls. They went right at him. He, you know, he’ll learn from it, but 10 minutes is all it’s foul trouble and he fouled out in 10 minutes. So, not much else to say with Ace Bailey tonight. I did like his his dunk shot he made and and he did hit a three. So, uh even in 10 minutes finding a way to be productive. I don’t know. I love that kid. All right. Keonte George gamewinner. We got to give so much credit to Keonte George. There’s so much Yeah. Not good enough. Key for three. Not I these wins are harder for me than the It is such in Bizarro world right now in Jazzland. And I don’t know, man. I just maybe I should just Is it just that we’re never going to win a championship? Is that just H I don’t know. Maybe we will. I I don’t know. Next year it’s they’re going for it. That’s what they’re going to do. So, we have to root for them to win the games. This was the year I was like, it’s the one. There’s three guys there. You get a top three pick, you get a stud. But I don’t know. We’ll see. But Keonte George 10 for 27. He had a tough shooting night in the first half. He was like two for 12 or something and picked it up in the second half. Still not quite perfect. This was kind of a beat him up playoff level game. And the three for 10, it was two for nine going into this. He takes the biggest shot of the game and knocks it down. and he is just automatic at the free throw line. He’s literally the best best uh best free throw shooter in the NBA. He has the highest percentage of anyone in the league. Literally 33 points. He’s just it’s so gratifying to have seen the talent there and that he was a steel when they the Jazz got him. And to see him kind of develop into what he’s become is fantastic. And uh uh I hope so. Ben, I don’t know. Why is I I don’t know why Spee is playing at all. I don’t get it. I don’t get it. This beta Ryan and the local crowd liked the game. Oh, Ryan certainly tweeted he was a fan. Ryan’s happy, guys. And in the end, isn’t that what matters is that Ryan Smith is happy. Isn’t that in the end? Can’t we all just when we go home? You know, we’re not going to we’re not making the playoffs. But you know what? Ryan Smith is happy and that can make us all just feel better, right? That warms that can warm my Grinch heart this holiday season when Ryan when I you know when Ryan Smith has stopped watching cuz he’s going to Mammoth games cuz they’re winning and the Jazz are losing to like getting their heads caved in by the Oklahoma City Thunder and someone like me who actually has to cover it and will watch every minute of the Jazz getting their head caved in every single minute and we’ll write about every single minute and talk about every single minute when I’m feel feeling broken and downtrodden and my head on the curb getting stomped by the likes of Nicola Joic and Kevin Durant on and their wonderful player Amen Thompson curb stomping me into oblivion forever as my teeth are chattering on the ground out of my head my face squashed sideways on the Earth. I’ll look up at the people pummeling me and know in my heart that Ryan Smith is happy. [Laughter] Thank you for being my therapy, guys. My jazz therapy. Thank you. But I will say I called it with Keonte George. You know, the consistency is the thing. And I tell you what, he’s due for another leap and I think that’s going to be pretty awesome. And who knows, maybe Keonte George becomes the best player in the NBA. I He’s certainly turned into a nice nice rotational player, starting level player. Maybe more. Maybe more. Um, we’ll see. And if here’s the other thing for me and everyone who like gets mad at me for my takes, but first off, I don’t care. But second, like this is my cope. This is cope. You guys know what cope is? This this is the face of cope. If you look at the dictionary, it’s this face. I don’t know. But uh the real the hope at this point for me is that Ace Bailey just turns into an absolute just superstar, you know, and he’s got who says he can’t. We’ve seen the signs and there’s certainly level levels for him to develop. You know, if you look at leaps, players usually take a couple leaps and some players just get better every single year. So, h but yeah, we’ll see. Uh Keonte George though, you saw the signs before. He just needed development. I know it was important for Ryan Smith and and all of these guys to develop guys like Kelly Olen and Colin Ston and Jordan Clarkson in instead of Keonte George, but at least he’s getting that development now when it’s kind of I don’t know. He could have been playing next to Amen Thompson or Assar Thompson this year, but whatever. At least we got Cody Williams. Look, here’s the cope face. H one of the you know what the most painful thing is is like one of my best Twitter tweets. Whoa, I almost said a word there. One of my best tweets uh don’t cancel me. uh was me being excited cuz I got to be on the network that had shams hired and I was so excited about Cody Williams and now that’s ready that’s just there forever. Oh, the cope is strong. It’s really strong. Speaking of Cody Williams, over four, over two, three personal fouls. Those are numbers for you, my good men. That’s the reward for when you win these games is this. This is it. This is the reward. 0 for four. 0 for two. He does play defense though. Oh, guys, my heart. This is helping my heart. I just You know what? When you’re in the thraws of being curb stomped, you gotta laugh. All right? Otherwise, it’s just really bad. Uh Kevin Love, three for eight from the field, two for six from three, two for two from the free throw line, eight rebounds, two assists. You got to love Kevin Love, right? It’s been nice for him to be on this team. And he does bring a veteran leadership and it’s great. I think he probably is buying he probably I don’t know where he lives. It’s funny, a lot of these players will have, depending on if they’ve got a bigger contract, they’ll typically have like two houses, sometimes three. Uh, you got your like because they do travel a lot, a lot of them will have like their nice condo near kind of Zans’s Bank Basketball Center, although that’s moving farther south so Ryan can go watch the practices, I guess. But, uh, usually they have one near the arena and near Zans’s base bank basketball center. And, uh, then they’ll have like their nice house, you know, like like I wouldn’t be surprised if Kevin Love got another contract with us if he didn’t like build a or buy a house in like Park City and then have a I don’t know. It It seems like Kevin Loves really enjoyed Utah, which is, by the way, that’s a win. Uh it’s just another case of a player coming here who was not super pro- itit and then comes here and and and decide and realizes, oh, this is nice. It’s nice here. You know, who knows? You know what? Maybe Ryan and Austin just know better than all of us. And they’ll be able to get a free agent to Utah. Like, you know, maybe. But free agency doesn’t really exist anymore. And cuz players get their contracts early and more often it’s signing. Never mind. We’re not going to a dark place. We’re going to stay bright. The Jazz won. We should be happy. Kyle Filipowski continues to be awesome off the bench. Uh this is He’s just turning into a fully formed nice rotational player off the bench. Four for seven from the field, nine rebounds, an assist, a steel. plays pretty solid defense actually uh against bench units. Very nice. So, you gotta like that, you know. Who knows, guys? Let’s just watch. Let’s just enjoy this team and watch how they develop and form and see what happens. I thought this was this was one of those swing games and Utah’s won like three of these swing games, you know? So, who knows? Maybe there’s some swing games in the future that go the other way, but uh I don’t know. Uh Isaiah Kier has played really well that first game back. He was in the starting unit. It didn’t work off the bench. The next game and going up until now, he has been great. He really has been good. 16 points, nine assists, two steals, four rebounds. Inarguable. He’s been good off the bench. I really like it. You know, you have a it, you know, these the Jazz have made a lot of picks. You don’t know who kind of pans out and who doesn’t, but Kier was really good tonight and his just unending just drive to the basket as hard as he can is working. He’s been drawing fouls. Look at this. He drew He drew a ton tonight. 11 free throw attempts. Utah’s just finding ways to score and a lot of these young players are finally kind of figuring it out which by the way we knew would happen and uh it’s been nice to see. So Kier four for six from the field, eight for 11 from the free throw line. Really nice 16 points each. Those numbers are great. Just really good. Uh and finally Sensaba had another nice night. Finally a bounceback night. Really five for nine from the field, four for seven from three. You could argue him hitting those big-time shots and that big assist to Lowry Markin was the reason the Jazz won this game for sure. His contributions were huge. 16 points, six rebounds. So, nice to see some development from Sensiba. He’s been very one note, you know, with just shooting, which is good, but when that shot’s not falling, he becomes very unplayable. And so for him to like do all these other things, the rebounding that big- time assist, it’s just the only assist he made, but it was a winner because it opened up got to open Lowry Markin. Pretty impressive stuff from Sensabot tonight. All right, guys. That’s probably it tonight. I thank you for letting me cope. I don’t know. My gosh. By the way, I have a I’m excited. I have a sign coming and when I get it, I get to put it behind me and it will light up my sadness. But yeah, this is Jazz channel. We root for the Jazz no matter what. Even if it’s like to get a super nice draft pick, but I don’t know. I don’t know. Well, oh my gosh. Key for three. $5. I appreciate it. More love, less Lowry, more Cody Cope, less key for three, more ace, less speed. They know scriptless flip. All I would say, and this is a running joke with SLC Dunk because uh it started with Tai Corbin. Remember back when we used to play Veterans with Ty Corbin? Life is cyclical. Pain is cyclical, guys. It just is. Uh the answer to that is uh by the way, thank you so much. That’s so generous. The answer is Ryan Colon. No, because I remember back when we used to talk with um Whoa, did I just almost turn this off? Back when uh back when it was Ty Corbin and we were just begging for Alec Burks to play and it was always like Ty No. Oh, and that’s when Greg Miller used to send us angry DMs for saying that Ty Corbin wasn’t very good. Any that’s the other joke with SLC Dunk. I’m just letting everyone know. I don’t care. Uh we used to call ourselves and we still do the OGs at least uh dirty boggers cuz uh cuz uh or not Ryan Smith cuz uh what’s his name? Greg Miller DM’d Demar and said, “You dirty bloggers.” Didn’t spell bloggers correctly. Dirty bloggers. And that’s why we don’t get in the locker room because we told the truth about Ty Corbin. That’s okay. That’s okay. I’ll hold that moniker of dirty bogger. I don’t care. Uh Utah does have a tough schedule coming up. They’re going up against um let’s see here. They’re not. They’re playing Tuesday, I believe, against the Lakers, who are playing well uh Thursday against uh or was it Friday? And lots of rest in between. The Thunder playing pretty well this year. And then uh on Sunday, I believe it is, they will play Sunday. Sunday they will play I believe it’s the Lakers again. Yeah. So, uh LeBron gets to rest in Utah even though he’s injured. So, he always does. He has the most old man disease. I got to be careful calling that. I I can’t tell that story today. But, um I do think it’s funny that I shouldn’t laugh about injuries, but it is funny. Sorry, I don’t care. uh that LeBron has the old man disease sciatica. And that’s just fun to pretend to be LeBron and be like, “My sciatica. My sciatica’s acting up.” Uh offensive rating and defensive rating didn’t change much. Utah’s at 23 in offensive rating. Defensive rating also at 23. Ironically, playing the Bulls today. Michael Jordan numbers. So, I don’t know what that means. Uh, but anyways, let’s open up this. Let’s Oh, I revealed something I’m working on right there. Boom, boom, boom, boom. But anyways, uh, let’s pull up the music here. Let’s see. For those who know, they know. [Music] All right, guys. The Jazz are technically still in the lottery, though, but we’re giving our pick right now at 10 to Oklahoma City Thunder. So, the best team in the NBA is getting a 10 pick from us. And what is that? Another 10 pick from the Clippers. So, at least uh I don’t give me hope. Don’t give me hope. All right. If the lottery was today, what would happen, guys? Let’s see. New Orleans gives the number one pick to the Atlanta Hawks. Sacramento wins and Charlotte wins and Utah gives their pick to Oklahoma City. But at least a lot of fun was had much fun was had. [Music] I’m so happy you had fun, Christian. I really am. All right, let’s give uh a shout out to our all stars. Let’s give a shout out. Well, let’s see. We got to Let’s just refresh this just to be sure. My music’s too high. I’m turning that down. Sorry. Uh let’s see. All right. Let’s give a shout out to uh Steve Aro. Steve Stevens, let him cook. Sturdy pots, Ezekiel Rice, The Man from Down Under, Tyson Price, The Price is Right. See you Alexa later, Jordan the Goat, Bessel, Ryan Edward Perry, The Legend, Christian House Money tonight, Christian House Money to Hos at the game tonight. Robert Hall of Fame, I believe in Steve, Jazz exile, Austin Grant, editor extraordinaire, Kefir 3, the OG that rhymes, and Patrick Aubo, the connoisseur. All right, guys. Like the video.

Keyonte George game winner to beat the Chicago Bulls and put the Utah Jazz on top! Lauri Markkanen was also great to win this game.

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