Any coach, Quin Snyder included, will tell you ball-watching is one of their most hated basketball sins.
Players who watch shots go up instead of getting back on defense are inevitably bound to give up the next big play. You focus, Snyder said, on what you can control.
It’s the same advice he gives to the Jazz (37-30) locker room, which is on a stretch as hot as any team in the NBA right now and yet are still — still — looking on from the back of a crowded Western Conference playoff pack.
“What we’re doing, we want to keep doing,” Snyder said following Sunday’s win over the New Orleans Pelicans, the team’s 18th win in its last 20 games.