The second-year guard shot just 4-of-22 from the field to get only 12 points in Wednesday night’s 100-93 loss to the Rockets in Game 5, adding only one assist next to five turnovers for the game. He took nine threes, including two pretty open looks in the game’s final minutes that would have significantly changed things. And in the end, his plus-minus of -13 was the Jazz’s second-worst.
“Obviously, in a closeout game, you don’t want to shoot 4-22 with five turnovers, but that happened,” Mitchell said.
The Jazz — who rely on Mitchell to carry the scoring load to a remarkable degree — tried to get him going in every way they could.