There’s been so much talk in the days following the Jazz’s second straight blowout defeat at the hands of the Rockets about the team’s mentality.
The need to come out with an attitude of toughness, of aggressiveness, of physicality, of urgency, et cetera, et cetera.
At Saturday morning’s shootaround at Zions Bank Basketball Campus, Ricky Rubio had a different mentality in mind. Almost exactly 10 hours before the start of Game 3, the point guard said one of the big differences in the series is that Houston’s players already have a contender-level attitude, while the Jazz are still trying to figure out how to get there.