Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder put his whiteboard down.
His team had built a 20-point lead on Sunday afternoon in Detroit but found themselves watching it slowly fade away. With his players huddled around him during a second-half timeout, a heated Snyder left his whiteboard blank as a message to his squad.
“There’s nothing on the clipboard X’s and O’s-wise that was going to change the game,” point guard Mike Conley said. “He put it on us. He’s not drawing up a play. He put it on us to go out there and play hard.”
The Jazz went on to grind out a 96-86 road win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday afternoon.