MEMPHIS — Utah Jazz teammates Rudy Gobert and Jae Crowder engaged in casual conversation ahead of Monday’s shootaround at FedExForum.
“Man, we need this win,” Crowder told Gobert.
After already falling to the Memphis Grizzlies twice at home in the same regular season for just the fourth time in franchise history, the Jazz players wanted to make a statement in their first stop of a five-game road trip on Veterans Day.
“We feel like these guys came in our house and took two wins from us,” Crowder said beforehand. “They did it respectively with playing hard and playing the way they wanted to play.