By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The German guard scored a career-high 41 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter, as the Hawks stunned the Utah Jazz 99-94.
The Jazz, who won 21 of 23 games in between losses to the Hawks, made their final field goal on Rudy Gobert’s basket with 2:33 to play and missed their last five shots. The French big man finished the game with 15 points and 16 rebounds, while Spaniard Ricky Rubio scored 23 points.
The Bosnian Beast Jusuf Nurkic finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds for Portland, but the Rockets got one more road win with the final score being 115-111.
Here are last night’s results and the euro-scorers
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86-93 |
Ibaka 13 p. 6 r. Valanciunas 9 p. 8 r. Poeltl 4 p. 2 r. – Vucevic 15 p. 9 r. Hezonja 8 p. 4 r. |
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100-99 |
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123-109 |
Bjelica 2 p. 8 r. – Teodosic 10 p. 2 r. Marjanovic 4 p. 6 r. |
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115-105 |
Mirotic 8 p. 7 r. – Nowitzki 19 p. 3 r. Kleber 1 p. 2 r. |
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|
UTAH JAZZ |
ATLANTA HAWKS |
94-99 |
Gobert 15 p. 16 r. Rubio 23 p. 3 r. 3 as. – Schroder 41 p. 5 r. 7 as. Dorsey 7 p. 5 r. |
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88-115 |
Bender 9 p. 6 r. Len 19 p. 12 r. |
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111-115 |
Nurkic 21 p. 11 r. – Capela 5 p. 6 r. |
Standings
|
#
|
TEAM
|
PTS
|
MP
|
W
|
L
|
POINTS
|
+/-
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EASTERN | ||||||||
|
1
|
71
|
53
|
18
|
7969 – 7359
|
610
|
|||
|
2
|
71
|
48
|
23
|
7403 – 7127
|
276
|
|||
|
3
|
70
|
41
|
29
|
7734 – 7712
|
22
|
|||
|
4
|
71
|
41
|
30
|
7514 – 7407
|
107
|
|||
|
5
|
70
|
40
|
30
|
7525 – 7428
|
97
|
|||
|
6
|
69
|
39
|
30
|
7458 – 7288
|
170
|
|||
|
7
|
71
|
38
|
33
|
7322 – 7314
|
8
|
|||
|
8
|
70
|
37
|
33
|
7395 – 7420
|
-25
|
|||
|
9
|
71
|
32
|
39
|
7303 – 7377
|
-74
|
|||
|
10
|
71
|
30
|
41
|
7597 – 7663
|
-66
|
|||
|
11
|
71
|
26
|
45
|
7409 – 7633
|
-224
|
|||
|
12
|
70
|
24
|
46
|
7245 – 7668
|
-423
|
|||
|
13
|
71
|
23
|
48
|
7544 – 7836
|
-292
|
|||
|
14
|
ATLANTA HAWKS
|
71
|
21
|
50
|
7381 – 7738
|
-357
|
||
|
15
|
71
|
21
|
50
|
7412 – 7746
|
-334
|
|||
| WESTERN | ||||||||
|
1
|
HOUSTON ROCKETS
|
71
|
57
|
14
|
8070 – 7442
|
628
|
||
|
2
|
71
|
53
|
18
|
8157 – 7621
|
536
|
|||
|
3
|
71
|
44
|
27
|
7533 – 7325
|
208
|
|||
|
4
|
73
|
43
|
30
|
7834 – 7595
|
239
|
|||
|
5
|
71
|
41
|
30
|
7931 – 7884
|
47
|
|||
|
6
|
71
|
41
|
30
|
7256 – 7026
|
230
|
|||
|
7
|
72
|
41
|
31
|
7921 – 7749
|
172
|
|||
|
8
|
UTAH JAZZ
|
71
|
40
|
31
|
7311 – 7086
|
225
|
||
|
9
|
71
|
38
|
33
|
7774 – 7701
|
73
|
|||
|
10
|
70
|
37
|
33
|
7650 – 7597
|
53
|
|||
|
11
|
70
|
31
|
39
|
7584 – 7696
|
-112
|
|||
|
12
|
72
|
23
|
49
|
7157 – 7708
|
-551
|
|||
|
13
|
71
|
22
|
49
|
7290 – 7467
|
-177
|
|||
|
14
|
70
|
19
|
51
|
6929 – 7295
|
-366
|
|||
|
15
|
72
|
19
|
53
|
7501 – 8201
|
-700
|
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