It’s not that Quin Snyder will be disappointed the Jazz won this game, but you wonder if the coaching about the team’s defense would land more heavily if the outcome would have gone differently. Let’s be clear: Portland’s starters dominated Utah’s starters throughout the night.
“I didn’t think we played well,” Snyder said, as Kristen Kenney tried to ask him about the win. “I thought defensively, we didn’t play good defense. A lot of it was not being focused, or breakdowns, and I didn’t think we had the level of intensity that we needed on the defensive end.