“Our energy is different. Something happened within our team. That little slump that we had, that little bad stretch really sparked something within our locker room,” Gobert said after Utah’s 135-101 demolition of the Rockets.
against the Houston Rockets, following a nine-game absence due to a left calf strain, the Jazz found themselves in a decidedly different spot.has now been supplanted by six wins in a row. But it’s not merely the results that have changed, but the process of getting there.once again made his feelings known — this time offering the carrot instead of the stick.
Quality of competition notwithstanding, coach Quin Snyder has said that the specific game results during this time are less important than Utah’s players building the habits that will make winning more consistent in the end.“You see that everyone’s playing with a different energy — you see Donovan [Mitchell] picking up and creating steals, we’re getting 50-50 balls, guys are boxing out and not giving up offensive rebounds.
Snyder’s primary critique was that, “I would’ve liked to see us push it a little further in the third quarter.” Mitchell, meanwhile, relayed that he got on Bojan Bogdanovic for making a careless pass to Jordan Clarkson that turned into a turnover. He also noted that teammates got on him for throwing a bad pass over the top to Gobert. And that he got on himself for being out of position in a rebounding situation, and that the Frenchman had to bail him out.
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