John Collins Scores On A Late Dunk To Lift Jazz Past Mavericks For 1st Home Victory

John Collins scored last of his 28 points on a tiebreaking dunk with 6.4 seconds left to give Utah Jazz ir first home victory of season, 115-113 over Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night.

Collins also h nine rebounds. Jordan Clarkson ded 20 points.

Luka Doncic h 37 points, seven rebounds and nine assists for Dallas. Quentin Grimes ded 15 points and five assists while filling in for Kyrie Irving, who missed game because of a right shoulder sprain. Klay Thompson h 17 points.

Mavericks erased double-digit deficit and tied it on Thompson’s 3-pointer in final minute. Collins answered with his winner.

Dallas led at halftime and got six third-quarter baskets from Doncic. It wasn’t enough to keep Jazz from surging ahe as quarter progressed. Utah ripped off a 9-0 run following back-to-back baskets from Doncic and went up 90-78 on Collins’ tip-in layup.

Mavericks: Irving’s absence deprived Dallas of a reliable second scorer and inhibited efforts to keep pace with a red-hot Utah offense.

Jazz: Kyle Filipowski is showing signs of evolving into a reliable scorer. rookie forward is averaging 16.0 points on 68.4% shooting over his last two games.

Utah scored baskets on six straight third-quarter possessions to take and 81-73 le. Lauri Markkanen scored three baskets himself, culminating in a step-back 3-pointer.

Jazz h 20 fast-break points.

Mavericks host San Antonio on Saturday night. Jazz are at Sacramento on Saturday night.