The team has ruled out voodoo hexes and magic, and some — but not all — have discounted psychological hurdles.
Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell speaks with coach Quin Snyder during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns on Friday, April 8, 2022, in Salt Lake City. The Utah Jazz held a 17-point lead over the Phoenix Suns going into the fourth quarter Friday night at Vivint Arena.In the final 12 minutes …… they committed three turnovers.Utah’s 111-105 defeat was its sixth loss this season after leading by double digits in the fourth quarter.
“It can be a mental thing, it can be. I’m not gonna speak for everybody else when I say [this] — I don’t feel like it’s that way for us. We just play tense,” he said. “… You can sit here and say, ‘Oh, it’s mental’ — it may feel that way, it damn sure feels that way in the arena. But if we go there, then we’ve already lost the game at that point.
“When we don’t have efficient possessions offensively, it becomes much more difficult to defend,” said Snyder. “The ball didn’t move like it was moving in the third,” added Gobert. “We also didn’t get the stops that allowed us to run. And those two things … Once again, we lost our flow offensively, we stopped playing the way we were playing earlier.”“I feel like it’s what happens pretty much every time,” Gobert said.
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