On Friday night, Grayson Allen flailed and shimmied, clearly out of his comfort zone as the young Utah Jazz guard endured the team’s mandatory rookie dance-off. One night later, on the same hardwood court, Allen couldn’t have looked more at home.
“I was a lot more comfortable after that first 3 went down,” Allen said. “That felt good.”
Allen finished with a game-high 19 points to help lead the Jazz to a 130-72 victory over the Perth Wildcats in the team’s preseason opener. The first-round draft pick hit his first five shots of the game — four of them from beyond the arc — as the Jazz put together a wire-to-wire win at Vivint Smart Home Arena.