SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder attempted to be a calm voice of reason. He doesn’t want anyone to get too worked up after watching his team win convincingly against perennial playoff teams on back-to-back nights.
Even with star Gordon Hayward wearing a suit on the bench while waiting for his broken finger to heal, plus fellow cornerstone Derrick Favors playing limited minutes while he works his way back into shape coming off a knee injury. Sorry, coach, but that’s pretty impressive.
“It’s hard to get too excited or too frustrated at this point of the year,” Snyder said after the Jazz’s 97-81 victory Wednesday night over the Dallas Mavericks.