Coming off of a disappointing road trip on which the Utah Jazz showed an alarming lack of urgency and farted out two very avoidable losses, I was watching for one thing tonight: a sense of urgency. Did we get it? Yes, and no, and a few thoughts.
On whether or not the Jazz played with urgency…
The Jazz were without the team’s best player in Rudy Gobert, it’s backup center in Hassan Whiteside, and a key rotation player in Rudy Gay. Also unavailable were Malik Fitts, Jared Butler, and Udoka Azubuike.
Out of necessity, they trotted out a starting lineup of Mike Conley, Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles, Bojan Bogdanovich, and Royce O’neale.