The first game of the first round of the playoffs between the Jazz and the Warriors arrived on April 19th.
After the game began, the Jazz unsurprisingly chose to speed up the pace.
Mid-season, veteran coach Sloan made Kyle Korver, exchanged from the Philadelphia 76ers along with Gordon Giricek and a future draft pick, the X-factor in the Jazz's first-quarter performance.
In later years, Korver became known as "the most accurate man on earth," hitting 3 out of 4 shots in a single quarter, all three being three-pointers.
If the Warriors' interior, guarded by Brown and Qin Yue, is still that intimidating no-fly-zone.
Then the biggest difference for the currently short-handed Warriors is that they cannot effectively restrict opponents' outside shooting.
Sloan had anticipated this during the regular season.
Thus, in the first playoff match against the Warriors, he unhesitatingly placed Korver, whose defense was still shaky, into the starting lineup.
