Grizzlies Hold Off Jazz 110-105 to Improve to 4-0

Cedric Coward's 25-foot 3-pointer in transition put Memphis ahead by 16 with 1:40 left in the third quarter Monday night at Delta Center.

The Jazz cut that lead to one point twice in the final 3:37. They never tied it.

Ty Jerome made Memphis' last three field goals, and he and Jaylen Wells went 4-of-4 at the free-throw line in the final 41 seconds as the Memphis Grizzlies held on for a 110-105 win over the Utah Jazz.

Memphis is 4-0 and has won the first three games of a four-game road trip. Utah fell to 1-3. The Grizzlies also beat the Jazz on Oct. 21, 123-103 in the season opener at FedExForum.

Coward finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds and went 4-of-4 from 3-point range. He played a team-high 31:29 after picking up his fourth foul with 2:53 left in the first half.

Jerome had 15 points on 4-of-15 shooting and 8 assists. Eight of the points came in the fourth quarter. Earlier Monday, the NBA named him the Western Conference Player of the Week for the season's opening week.

Wells scored 14 points. Cameron Boozer had 13 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists.

Keyonte George led Utah with 26 points on 9-of-17 shooting. Ace Bailey had 17 points, 10 rebounds, and 3 blocks, and Mo Bamba scored 14 on 7-of-8 shooting off the bench.

Memphis trailed 13-9 when Utah called timeout with 6:43 left in the first quarter. Over the rest of the period, the Grizzlies outscored the Jazz 21-8, and they led by as many as 15 in the second quarter.

Jerami Grant scored 13 points on 4-of-6 shooting off the bench and finished with a team-high plus-12 in 23:30. Eight of his points came in the second quarter, when he went 3-of-3 with two 3-pointers.

Quinten Post added 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting in 12:03. He scored 9 of them in the final 4:41 of the third quarter.

Cam Spencer had 8 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists. Scotty Pippen Jr. scored 7, and GG Jackson II and Isaiah Stewart had 4 apiece.

Through three quarters, the reserves had 45 of Memphis' 89 points.

Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo said the bench drove the run that built the first-half lead.

"I felt that things in the third and the fourth, we had good control of the game," Iisalo said. "I thought our guys played really well, especially the guys off the bench. The amount of energy they brought and pace. On the second night of a back-to-back, we saw two teams that were really struggling to generate something."

"It came down to big plays down the stretch," Iisalo continued, "but very, very satisfied with our — again, the word I keep using is poise — in the fourth quarter, of just staying with the program, getting through the situations, working the margins, and then coming up with the crucial defensive stops at the right time."

Memphis won 123-112 at the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night.

Utah got within 58-57 early in the third quarter on a George step-back jumper and free throw. Memphis outscored the Jazz 31-19 over the rest of the period.

Coward's 26-foot 3-pointer off a Boozer pass with 8:18 left made it 98-86.

The Jazz won the fourth quarter 29-21. They had an 18-2 edge in paint points in the period, and Bamba scored 8 of his 14 on three dunks and a putback layup.

Darryn Peterson's 26-foot pull-up with 5:03 left made it 100-98. A George floater and free throw at 3:37 cut it to 102-101.

Jerome hit a 16-foot floater with 2:44 left and a 16-foot pull-up off a Zach Edey pass at 2:15. Bamba's dunk off a Bailey pass made it 106-105 with 1:01 remaining.

Peterson fouled Wells with 41 seconds left, and Wells made both free throws. On Utah's next trip, George missed a 13-foot pull-up, and Peterson missed an 11-footer after grabbing the rebound.

Boozer secured that miss. Josh Green fouled Jerome with 11.6 seconds left, and Jerome made both.

Memphis went 6-of-18 from the field in the fourth quarter and 6-of-6 at the line. It led for the final 39:56 in front of 17,867, Utah's 377th consecutive sellout.

Golden State led the Grizzlies by 12 with 3:47 left on Friday before a 17-0 Memphis run at Chase Center.

Jerome said each of the four wins has looked a little different.

"It's huge, especially against teams in the Western Conference, all Western Conference teams that we're playing right now," Jerome said in a postgame interview with Grind City Media, the Grizzlies' in-house outlet. "And it's huge. We've been resilient. We've been in dogfights. We've been in some clutch-time games. And we've stayed together on the road in the loud arenas. We've kept our poise. We've done a good job."

Lauri Markkanen left with 5:58 remaining in the first quarter after his right wrist got caught between Jaren Jackson Jr. and Boozer on the perimeter.

Jackson, who spent eight seasons with Memphis before the Grizzlies traded him to Utah in February, was hurt in the second quarter. Neither returned.

The AP reported Tuesday that Jackson tore the MCL in his right knee and will miss at least six weeks. Markkanen sprained his right wrist and is listed as day-to-day.

Memphis plays at Portland on Thursday, with tip-off at 9 p.m. CT. The Grizzlies return to FedExForum to host Sacramento on Saturday at 7 p.m. CT.