SALT LAKE CITY — It was a standard playoff press conference, several players lined up at a table, a microphone in front of each. Their relief was palpable after the Jazz’s Game 4 win over Houston on Monday.
You could practically hear “Good Vibrations” playing in the background.
Derrick Favors, Donovan Mitchell, Jae Crowder and Rudy Gobert addressed all the salient points: aggressiveness, defense, bench play, execution, Mitchell’s resurgence, and everything else except global warming.
“Game 5, we’re gonna be ready,” Gobert said.
The Jazz center doesn’t say these things lightly. He, above all players, is most likely to deliver the unvarnished truth.