Andy Larsen

Delta Center smoke machine and clock malfunction in Jazz’s big loss to the OKC Thunder The smoke machine, shot clock, and the Utah Jazz's defense were all various degrees of broken on Sunday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

"I never had that in middle school, high school, or college," Keyonte George said.

What happened with the smoke machine malfunction and the total shot and game clock malfunction tonight?

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Thunder beat Jazz 131-101. They got out to a 43-15 lead and Jazz never got close after that.


Career high 20 points for Walter Clayton Jr. Isaiah Collier and Brice Sensabaugh played 6 1H minutes and never returned. Filipowski also added 21 points, Hendricks 20.

Among all the Jazz's youth tonight, Kyle Filipowski, Taylor Hendricks, and Walter Clayton have stood out as the ones making positive contributions

I thiiiink the clock setup is working again. Refs look like they're checking to make sure.

The score is also not updating on the arena scoreboard, either.

Shot clocks completely broken. Not operating at all. So the Delta Center PA announcer will have to count down at the end of the shot clock.

Ryan Smith went over to Austin Ainge's seat to have a conversation with him during this stoppage in play... interesting.

Now we wait as the shot clock malfunctions at the Delta Center. It's been... not a great look overall for the organization tonight.

Red Panda absolutely perfect tonight. She's undoubtedly the GOAT of all NBA halftime acts. Such a random skill, incredibly done, 1 million stars out of five.

Jazz down 74-48. Besides behind the basket, smoke came out of Hardy's years as he yelled at the referees at halftime. But that was just one call... Jazz are just being so outclassed at the moment.


Red Panda though.

Matching technical fouls on Keyonte George and Will Hardy as both yell at Rodney Mott.

It is discouraging to see OKC's second-round and undrafted young players so strongly outplay the Jazz's first-round picks.

Branden Carlson, of all people, is cooking the Jazz. 11 points in the first quarter. Jazz down 34-13 to shorthanded OKC.

Also: really really interesting to think about what Keyonte George's contract extension negotiations are going to look like this upcoming summer. What's the right number for him?


Of the NBA's 50 leading scorers, he's the second youngest, behind only Wembanyama.

Kinda wild the Jazz employ one of the NBA's top 10 scorers (Lauri Markkanen) and one of the NBA's top 30 scorers (Keyonte George)

Jazz beat Nets 123-110. Lauri Markkanen had 30, Keyonte George had 29, and both really took over this 4th quarter when it mattered.


Cross town B2B tomorrow against the Knicks.

Jazz now on fire from 3 in this 4th quarter... 13-23 for the game, and they're up 7 with 3:10 left to go.

Huge lol at Mr. Whammy's cycle of emotions when Markkanen missed a free throw but then it was called a lane violation

Jazz down to Brooklyn, 58-49 at the half. Lauri Markkanen leads the Jazz with 12 points... 10 of them coming on 5 first-half dunks.

Oof, rouuuuggh collision for Walter Clayton, who got kneed in the face. Then Terrence Mann landed *hard* on the floor. Everyone looks to be trying to walk it off but quite scary

Jazz beat Rockets 133-125. Extremely good bounceback win against one of the best teams in the NBA.


Markkanen: 29p/8r on 9-17 FG.
George: 28p/8a/6to on 8-14 FG.
Big contributions from Filipowski, Bailey, Nurkic, Svi, and even Kevin Love and Walter Clayton..

A couple of very good defensive plays from Keyonte George to help the Jazz seal this game. Just very good anticipation on both. The effort and the film watching has been paying off.

Now six fouls in 48 seconds!

Rockets picked up five consecutive fouls from 3:49 to 3:13 of the 4th quarter. 5!

Jazz up 112-106 on the Rockets, 6:42 left. Udoka challenging the OOB call on Keyonte...

Felt like the Jazz had this and there was a good chance Rockets would just waive the flag in the 4Q... and now their 21 point lead is down to 9 in the course of 97 seconds.

Pretty excellent half from the Jazz on the Rockets, they're up 68-57.


21-3 advantage in bench points. Rockets really missing Steven Adams. Really good advantage basketball from the Jazz.

Honestly pretty interesting 1H in Jazz/Rockets IMO. Rockets have some players you can help from and let shoot but when the Rockets have 2-3, they can get pretty stagnant offensively... Jazz have done a good job meanwhile getting shots from all over.

Sengun has been phenomenal in the first quarter. Just checked out but has 11/3/4 already.

Rockets beat Jazz 129-101. Only really two good things to come out of this one:


- Ace Bailey looked really good offensively
- Tickets for tomorrow's rematch are going to be very affordable.