'The players are saying that there’s still time to change the team’s mentality, to learn to fight, to learn to play basketball well even when times are tough,' writes Andy Larsen. 'No one believes them.'
Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, left, dunks as Los Angeles Clippers guard Reggie Jackson, center, watches along with guard Jordan Clarkson during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 29, 2022, in Los Angeles.Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 121-115 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.This is the longest I’ve stared at a blank page after a game. I’ve been doing the Triple Team since 2013-14, and this is the longest.
Last time, I wrote about how their loss was reflective of a strong team with an Achilles heel: their defense against small lineups. The Clippers, in Game 6, figured out they could space the Jazz out and attack the Jazz’s poor defenders again and again and again, turning the 25-point lead mountain into a molehill facing a tank.
At one point, with about a minute left to go, with the Jazz down by just two, Rudy Gobert just started shaking his head, even as he was screening for an inbounds play. He couldn’t believe that it had happened, again. The team still clearly had a chance! But he was rattled. So was everyone else. No one believes them. They’ve said it too many times before. They have to say it because you can’t be a highly-paid professional basketball player and acknowledge that your competitive spirit is gone and hope to get contracts moving forward, but the words are meaningless.
We get disconnected. We stop playing. We lose the values of this team, which is moving the ball. And that really affects our defense. It’s like everything flows, and then it flows the wrong way and we get disconnected more and more and more. And then the other team feels like they’re doing something good, they know how to get us to that point, they know how to get us there.
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