SALT LAKE CITY — The San Antonio Spurs are fighting for their playoff lives and the Utah Jazz went into Friday’s midday matchup without four of their starters, so the result of the game was never really in question.
The Spurs won, 119-111, but the Jazz reserves put up more of a fight than many may have expected, with a few of the third-string players standing out.
“They just competed,” coach Quin Snyder said. “That’s kind of our expectation for our whole group, whoever is on the floor. That’s what they expect of each other.”
Prior to the game Snyder was asked about the rash of injuries listed as reasons for Mike Conley (right knee soreness), Donovan Mitchell (left peroneal strain), and Royce O’Neale (right calf soreness) not playing in the first game of a back-to-back set and the coach skirted by the question only indicating that there are plenty of players with “nicks” at this point in the restarted season.