Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert was not a happy man Tuesday night as he watched his team lose to the Los Angeles Clippers on the road, 121-115. It was an especially frustrating setback for the Jazz, as they had a lead that ballooned to as big as 25 points that eventually evaporated into thin air.
Following the game, Gobert fired a series of comments resenting the manner with which they lost to Paul George and the Clippers, via Tony Jones of The Athletic.
Rudy Gobert: just again and again. In the same way.
— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) March 30, 2022
Rudy Gobert: we get disconnected. We lose the balance of this team which is moving the ball and that really affects our defense.
— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) March 30, 2022
Rudy Gobert: we don’t get our hands dirty. We never get our hands dirty
— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) March 30, 2022
Much of Gobert's frustration is rooted in the Jazz's atrocious second-half defense that allowed Los Angeles to shoot nearly 60 percent from the floor. George, who was seeing his first action in three months, scored 26 of his game-high 34 points in the final 24 minutes of the ball game, while Luke Kennard and Isaiah Hartenstein came off the bench and chipped in 17 and 14 points, respectively.
Utah's offense was hot all game long. It's just that the Jazz couldn't defend to save their lives, which possibly speaks to what's been mostly wrong about the team of late. After all, the Jazz are now on a five-game losing streak, during which they have let opponents shoot over 52 percent from the floor and 44.1 percent from behind the arc.
The Jazz can try to stop the bleeding this coming Thursday at home versus the Los Angeles Lakers.
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