On this file picture, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder walks off of the courtroom after his staff misplaced to the Memphis Grizzlies in an NBA basketball sport Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Memphis, Tenn. Brandon Dill, Related Press
NEW ORLEANS — The Utah Jazz had been fully blown out by the New Orleans Pelicans 124-90 on Friday on the Smoothie King Middle.
The place do I start?
The Jazz had been so unhealthy that there’s actually no cause to say any “excessive notes.” On prime of all of the Jazz’s errors and lackluster play, it was additionally a poor capturing night time. Simply throughout not nice. So, I suppose we must always simply get into the unhealthy stuff.
Flat notes
- The Pelicans pulled forward on the 9:39 mark of the primary quarter and by no means seemed again. You couldn’t assist however watch what the Jazz had been doing and suppose that they had been going to interrupt out of their funk, or that they might come away from the primary quarter and play in a different way, or that they might come out of halftime with a special sense of urgency, or that they might attempt to make a comeback at any level within the second half. However the Jazz did none of that and the Pelicans’ lead simply saved rising, and rising, and rising.
“I can’t say that we had it as a bunch. I can’t say we did. Whether or not we had been drained or fatigued or it was mentally or no matter it might be, we’ve received to search out methods overcome that.” — Donovan Mitchell - The Jazz’s 90 factors had been their lowest scoring efficiency since Dec. 9, 2019, in opposition to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder once they misplaced 104-90. The Jazz have had 18 losses in franchise historical past that rank worse than the 34-point loss on Friday (so far as level differential is anxious).
- The Jazz appeared immune to taking open layups, as an alternative insisting on kicking out even when the simpler shot was the one proper in entrance of them. However then once they kicked out to 3-point shooters, they hesitated or dribbled into site visitors relatively than taking the open 3. Then they had been lacking the midrange pictures they really had been taking even once they had been in rhythm. Should you’re driving and kicking however then by no means taking the open pictures the protection can simply sit within the paint and contest jumpers and hit the glass and it doesn’t actually make issues that arduous for the protection.
- Sooner or later the Jazz began making an attempt to attract fouls and get some straightforward factors on the free-throw line, however once they didn’t get calls they had been additional annoyed and once they received to the free-throw line they missed fairly a number of. The Jazz shot simply 34.8% general, 26.8% from 3 and 65.4% from the free-throw line.
- You is perhaps questioning, who was the worst offender? Oh boy. Effectively, Jordan Clarkson was overly annoyed by compounding errors within the first quarter and was by no means actually capable of shake that. Donovan Mitchell was perhaps essentially the most responsible of passing up open appears on the rim after which Royce O’Neale and Bojan Bogdanovic handed up open 3s. Rudy Gobert and Hassan Whiteside each had possessions once they did not get their fingers up and contest pictures and so they each missed out on rebounds or had been simply out of place for rebounds and even once they received some offensive boards they might miss on the putback or lose the ball. Even when the top of bench gamers got here in on the finish they didn’t do an amazing job. Each Jazz participant received minutes on this sport and the one gamers that didn’t have turnovers had been Danuel Home, Juancho Hernangomez and Udoka Azubuike. The Jazz dedicated 21 turnovers, with Bogdanovic and Mike Conley the largest offenders.
- The Jazz had been fully out of types on Friday night time and had been bothered by the issues that they're going to come up in opposition to within the playoffs and so they didn’t have solutions. So whereas I don’t suppose that the Jazz are going to have many video games the place all the pieces appears as discombobulated because it did in opposition to the Pelicans, I feel that there are issues about this sport that ought to be worrying, most notably the size and velocity of New Orleans, that are traits that the groups on the prime of every convention even have in spades.
“We made it robust on ourselves. I don’t suppose we lose by 30 each time, but it surely’s going to be robust, you understand? And we’ve received to simply make it straightforward for ourselves, and tonight we didn’t do this.” — Mitchell on enjoying in opposition to the Pelicans’ size