Dallas Mavericks vs Utah Jazz Full Game Highlights 1st Qtr P2 | Dec 15 | 2025 NBA Highlights
and around and down and Dallas back within one. >> Utah's brought Taylor Hendrickx into the game here just in the last little bit. >> Keonte George with a mini pull up. Long rebound and claimed by Dallas. Mavs went down by eight points early in the game. They've got a chance to go back in front. Maybe Pal could do that. lost the offensive rebound out of bounds after Christy missed on an attempt in the paint. >> The energy level of this second unit coming in really closing the gap, making a concert considered effort to get into the paint. >> Both teams really shooting it well. 64% for Utah, 68% for Dallas. And the number goes up for the Jazz as Ace Bailey hits on a three. >> Bailey two of three. >> Can't set your defense. you're giving up a ton of transition points. So to be able to see that and correct that just by inserting one player into the starting lineup has been huge. >> Those turnovers, we talked about that with Jay Kib before the game tonight that that's why their transition defense numbers are so much better than the first couple of weeks of the season. They've got a they've got a good last 20ame run of transition defense. More on that later. Here is a runner by Keonte George that he misses. Coupe didn't finish off the three-point play, but he's in attack mode again and earns himself a trip right back to the line where he missed an and one free throw opportunity a moment a six days away from turning 19 years old. His birthday is on Sunday. native of Newport, Maine, >> won a high school state championship as a freshman at Ncomomas Regional and then went to Montair Academy in Florida where he played for two years in the 23-24 high school season. He was the Naymith Prep Player of the Year. The player bringing the ball up the floor right now for Utah was the 22-23 high school season Naymith prep player of the year. That's Isaiah Collier. He was playing at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, where he won that and he dished it to Ace Bailey. And Bailey, who has made a couple of early shots, misses everything on that attempt from straight away. Baileyy's averaging 10 points a game this year. Very, very promising rookie, taking fifth in the draft after one and done at Ruters. Oh, and it opens up and cooped to the hoop again. And the Mavericks, who were down by 10 at 24-14, have now gone in front 31-29 here in the last quarter of the first quarter. >> Collier quickly moves it to slowmo. Kyle Anderson, no good. Pal the rebound. Hardy in attack. Hardy finds Max Christie. >> Another move into the paint BY COOPER. FLAG. OH, A NICE adjustment as >> this in different games. I want to reference back to that Clippers game >> that we saw >> to where it started, man. >> That aggressive started. >> Absolutely. >> Early early in game aggression level. >> Most points he's had in any quarter this year is the 14 he scored here in the first. And the Mavericks are on a coupe le 8 run right now. All eight points in set run by the rookie, the number one overall pick from Duke. Ace Bailey in the lane to the corner where Taylor Hendris puts up a three and makes it. He is just trying to get his career back on track after that gruesome lower right leg injury suffered in the third game of the season last year at American Airlines Center. Here's Jaden Hardy. He's attacking and scoring. >> Mavericks with two minutes left in the first quarter. Up the lead. Back to three. >> Ma's realizing there's zero shot blocking on the floor right now when they're relentlessly attacking the basket. >> And there typically isn't shot blocking on the floor. Deon for the Jazz. And there wouldn't be much if Nerkish was out there, but he is not available. That is 91% for the season. He's sixth. His teammate Lowry Markin is ninth. as you look at the best free throw shooters in the NBA this season by percentage. >> Chance to make this a one-point game. Keonte George, you said it earlier, Deon, picking up where he left off Friday when he had a career-high 39. Already a dozen in this game. >> The best way to increase your scoring getting to the >> free throw line. Yes. >> Well, you like to see someone from the Metroplex doing well. And of course, Keiante George is from Lewisville to White Powell with the paint catch and Powell will shoot two free throws. Just following up on Keonte George, a Lewisville fighting farmer for two years District 6A MVP when he was a sophomore at Lewisville. Someone who spent six years of give some love to the Lewisville fighter. Powell on the line, one out of two. Keonte George has come out of the game. is having a chitchat with Will Hardy before he goes to the bench. Here's Isaiah Collier. Hendrickx shooting from the other corner. He's made for the right and the left corner here in the last minutes of the first quarter. And Utah back in front. Highscoring basketball. We are seeing it here tonight in the first quarter in Salt Lake City. Fading Jaden Hardy as they get the roll. Ball out off a Bailey. 14 to shoot. 105 to play in the first quarter. >> Mavericks throwing in on the baseline. Opens up for Klay Thompson for a corner three. Bullseye. >> With Clay, it seems like the colder it gets outside, the warmer he gets. >> Really starting to pick it up percentage-wise in the month of December. Kyle Anderson takes the dribble handoff, shoots it against the grain runner in the paint. Missed it running the floor. Nice feed. Hardy to Coupe and then it's Christy with the pass and Powell. Reach in foul by Ace B. Steady Eddi Dwight Powell always ready. He's got five off the bench here in the first quarter. Three boards, eight minutes played. No Anthony Davis tonight. Left half contusion. I don't think he was far off from playing in this game. He was a game time decision. Lost balance in the lane by Isaiah Collier. They wanted a two for one and there was a chance to throw it up ahead there to Max Christie but at 71. Markin had the length to intercept it. >> Kyle Anderson on the drive. He missed it. Oh, and a big coming together. Up his number this year 73% on free throws this season for Dwight Pal. looking. Mavericks have their highest scoring first quarter of the year. And that's even with those two free throws by Pal being missed. 41 in the first quarter for Dallas. We have seen a four-point play tonight. So, I don't want to say they're going to take the lead to the first quarter, but they probably will. >> But excessive uh >> Well, Markin certainly agrees. You can see obviously uh the reaction when it was announced in the arena what the uh facial expression can stop the bleeding. Max has got a pair of free throws to shoot which he makes both of those and he is an excellent free throw shooter throughout his career going into play tonight. 82 and a half%. This is the season high in scoring for any quarter for Dallas with 43 and they're looking for two more. IT'S IN THERE. OH, BUT IT'S LATE.
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Dallas Mavericks vs Utah Jazz Full Game Highlights 1st Qtr P2 | Dec 15 | 2025 NBA Highlights
