{"id":244666,"date":"2025-08-22T05:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/244666\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:55:10","slug":"lauri-markkanen-cools-off-in-final-friendly-eurobasket-competition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/244666\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauri Markkanen cools off in final friendly EuroBasket competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Utah Jazz forward, Lauri Markkanen, has been tearing up EuroBasket but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/eurobasket\/1858808\/finland-poland-fiba-eurobasket-2025-preparation-friendly-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cooled off in the final friendly for Finland in their game against Poland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">cooled off in the final friendly for Finland in their game against Poland<\/a>. Markkanen finished with 6 points and 7 rebounds in 17 minutes, a far cry from the 40 PPG he\u2019d been putting up. Finland did win the game, so he didn\u2019t have to put up more big numbers to get the win and the 4-game win streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The dip in performance likely doesn\u2019t mean much, as this is just the friendlies part of the tournament. It is something to watch as the group play will begin soon. That\u2019ll include better competition and a clearer picture of where Markkanen stands with his level of play. Last season was unquestioningly a down season for Markkanen, who put up very subpar numbers for his level of skill and contract. Many Jazz fans have been discussing whether Markkanen is playing poorly on purpose or if the level of play around him is dragging him down. Personally, I feel like players who receive max-level contracts should play at max levels regardless of who\u2019s playing. It\u2019s what makes them max players, but I digress. This tournament will give a lot more insight into where Markkanen is at with his level of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz forward, Lauri Markkanen, has been tearing up EuroBasket but\u00a0cooled off in the final friendly for Finland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,15013,3402,423,976,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-244666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-eurobasket","10":"tag-finland","11":"tag-jazz","12":"tag-lauri-markkanen","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-utah","15":"tag-utah-jazz","16":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115070876059552311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}