NBA|The Finn was the best scorer of his team. It wasn’t enough to win.
The Utah Jazz Lauri Markkanen scored 25 points with great accuracy for his team in Saturday’s away game against the Sacramento Kings. Markkanen, who toiled for almost 35 minutes in the match, was clearly the most efficient player of his team, but the match turned into a loss for the Jazz in the last minutes of the fourth period.
Sacramento took their hard-throwing quarterback De’Aaron Foxin leading the match with a score of 121–117. Fox bagged as many as 49 points, and he was also marked with nine assists and three rebounds.
The accuracy of Markkanen’s throws was a handsome 75 percent. He made both of his two-pointers, hit four of six threes and made nine of ten free throws. Markkanen also had five rebounds and one assist.
In the previous one Utah, who beat Dallas in their match, was to take its second consecutive victory in Sacramento. It took the lead in the third quarter, but the home team got past with barely three minutes left in the game.
After that, Utah held on to victory for a long time with Markkanen’s free throws. Markkanen threw his team from the free throw line first to a 114–113 lead and then to a 116–114 run away with just under two minutes left in the game.
After that, Utah’s players mostly had fumbles and lost the ball. Collin Sexton the third for a 107–104 lead almost five minutes before the end of the game was Utah’s last basket of the game. After that, the visitors only hit free throws.