{"id":480341,"date":"2024-03-16T02:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480341"},"modified":"2024-03-16T02:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T06:47:39","slug":"george-pushes-short-staffed-jazz-past-hawks-124-122","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/george-pushes-short-staffed-jazz-past-hawks-124-122\/","title":{"rendered":"George pushes short-staffed Jazz past Hawks 124-122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keyonte George led the way with 25 points, supported by Collin Sexton&#8217;s 21, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\">Utah Jazz<\/a> ended a three-game skid with a narrow 124-122 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing key players, including Jordan Clarkson, Lauri Markkanen, and Kris Dunn, the short-handed Jazz fielded three rookies, including standout performances from Brice Sensabaugh with 14 points and Taylor Hendricks with 10 rebounds. G-League call-ups Johnny Juzang and Micah Potter also shined with career-high contributions of 19 and 11 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hawk John Collins made his mark against his former team, notching 18 points and 11 rebounds. However, Dejounte Murray stole the show for the Hawks with 33 points, igniting a late rally with consecutive 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta had two opportunities to steal the win in the closing moments, but Murray missed a crucial 3-pointer, and Vit Krejci&#8217;s attempt fell short. It marked a special return to Utah for former Jazz coach Quin Snyder, who received a warm reception from the Delta Center crowd.<\/p>\n<p>De&#8217;Andre Hunter and Jalen Johnson paced the Hawks&#8217; offense with 27 and 26 points, respectively, while Clint Capela dominated the boards with 15 rebounds and 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Utah&#8217;s efficient shooting, connecting on 51.1% from the field and 14 3-pointers, coupled with their dominance in the paint, outscoring Atlanta 56-34, proved crucial. Despite a late surge from the Hawks, the Jazz held on for the victory, buoyed by Sexton&#8217;s clutch plays down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_UjRrzu5iNY?si=j3zBmHjtzMv-Bbcl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keyonte George led the way with 25 points, supported by Collin Sexton&#8217;s 21, as the Utah Jazz ended a three-game skid with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":480342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176,17198],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17947,18125],"acf":{"announce":"Utah had to start three rookies because of their problems ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480344,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480341\/revisions\/480344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480341"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480341"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}