Rudy Gobert is 7-foot-1, with a 7-foot-9 wingspan and a 9-foot-9 standing reach.
Compare that to the Pelicans' starting bigs tonight: We don’t know Nikola Mirotic’s standing reach, but we know his height: 6-foot-10, and his wingspan: 7-foot-1. And we know Julius Randle is just 6-foot-9, with a 6-foot-11 wingspan and an 8-foot-10 standing reach.
The point: Gobert was just significantly taller and longer than his opposition tonight. So the Jazz repeatedly passed it to Gobert high, who caught the ball and dunked it. In the end, Gobert finished with 25 points on 11-13 shooting. Nine of the 11 makes were dunks.