… Reserve guard Dante Exum was a full participant in Tuesday’s practice, while Emmanuel Mudiay was a partial participant. Donovan Mitchell is off to an efficient start, averaging 25.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 3.3 assists, while shooting 52.0% overall and 44.4% from 3-point range.… We’ve got to be able to withstand their aggressive bigs and be able to do it ourselves.” And now we’re doing a solid job with that. “You know, we saw what happened when we made the defense the primary focus. I think that’s all it is,” Mitchell said. “Making it more of a primary focus, and urgency to try to do it. “Just effort and focus,” said the former. And it's got to be collective, everybody's got to get in on it.”īogdanovic and Mitchell both agreed that the changes to come are not of a schematic nature, but of mentality. … You have to just make really quick decisions and know that that's a priority and that they're coming. I think with them, there has to be an even greater awareness because they put so much pressure on you. And that's hurt us, obviously, at key times in the game. “I feel like the last couple games we just haven't been as consistent with it. OK, then, so what do they need to do, especially with the board-cleaning Sixers coming to Vivint Smart Home Arena on Wednesday night? “Unfortunately, that was the case in that respect.” You know, it's simple, but sometimes you learn the hard way,” Snyder said. “You want your team to learn from that, and the guys do, too. Even after those lackluster performances, the Jazz still ranked sixth in the league in defensive rebounding percentage through Monday’s games.īut there were enough miscues against the Kings and Clippers to be noticeable - and costly. The thing is, there probably isn’t a ton the Jazz need to fix, actually.Īs coach Quin Snyder would go on to mention, defensive rebounding only became an issue during that two-game trip through California. “There's nothing that can we can't fix, nothing we won't fix,” Mitchell added. So I gotta be able to go back to the fundamentals and be able to box out. “It works on some people but doesn’t work on everybody. … I remember where, you know, I missed two of them on one possession, just trying to out-jump people as opposed to getting hit,” he said. Still, the Jazz acknowledge there’s been plenty of blame to go around.ĭonovan Mitchell, rightly lauded for again carrying the offensive load on a too-frequent basis, conceded he hasn’t been above reproach. So we cannot beat anybody if we’re not better on the defensive glass.”īogdanovic was particularly cognizant of the subject, considering it was the man he failed to box out - Harrison Barnes - who got that decisive rebound and basket for the Kings. Last game, we allowed, like, more than 25, 30 second-chance points. It’s not just one of us or two of us - it’s got to be all five guys on the floor,” said forward Bojan Bogdanovic. “I mean, we’ve all got to do a little better, a better job collectively.
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