Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder talks to protect Donovan Mitchell (45) and heart Rudy Gobert (27) throughout the recreation in opposition to the Chicago Bulls at Vivint Good Residence Enviornment in Salt Lake Metropolis on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information
During the last yr, the Utah Jazz have hit the proverbial reset button after getting eradicated within the first spherical of the 2022 NBA playoffs, as they traded Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Bojan Bogdanovic, Mike Conley, Royce O’Neale and Joe Ingles (that final one occurred on the commerce deadline earlier than final season ended), and head coach Quin Snyder stepped down.
The Jazz didn’t make the playoffs this season, whereas six of the above seven did (Bogdanovic and the Detroit Pistons had the worst report within the league), however all six of them have been eradicated within the first spherical, similar to final yr.
Most notably, Ingles and the Milwaukee Bucks have been upset by the Miami Warmth in surprising vogue 4-1 after ending the common season with the NBA’s greatest report.
Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers, in the meantime, have been matched up in opposition to the New York Knicks, the workforce most thought Mitchell can be traded to final summer time. They, too, misplaced their sequence 4-1.
Elsewhere within the Japanese Convention, O’Neale and the Brooklyn Nets have been swept soundly by the Philadelphia 76ers, whereas Snyder and the underdog Atlanta Hawks practically pushed the Boston Celtics to seven video games earlier than the Celtics pulled away on the finish of Sport 6 Thursday to win their sequence 4-2.
Snyder, in fact, took over because the Hawks’ head coach on the finish of February after they fired Nate McMillan.
Out within the Western Convention, Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley’s Minnesota Timberwolves have been overwhelmed 4-1 within the first spherical by the Denver Nuggets, the West’s high seed.
In all, the group went simply 5-20 within the first spherical.