What are the best shots in basketball? As much as the analytic revolution has changed the game, dunks and layups are still the best shots you can get in the game. Tonight, the Jazz discovered — later than you’d hope they would have, but still — that they could get to the rim against the Atlanta Hawks at will, and once they flipped that switch, they scored enough to win the game.
Two of the critical layups came as the Hawks went small, putting notoriously poor defender Jabari Parker at center. Then, the Jazz just attacked.
Not everything came with Parker at center, though, and it was those moves that were most impressive.