The Utah Jazz overwhelmed the Dallas Mavericks in the third quarter of game 1 Saturday. No 4th quarter collapse, no lame injuries for critical rotation players, no disappointment for the Jazz. Of course, their are many that want to point to the fact that Dallas star Luka Doncic missed this game for the Mavericks but Utah had a strong showing today, especially when you consider how they have been closing games for the last month or two. Dallas is still a good team even without Luka but it did look like a struggle for their offense for most of the game and ultimately that proved true as the Jazz defense put the clamps down in the 2nd half and showed some grit to hang on for the lead in crunch time.