With Udoka Azubuike out due to ankle surgery, Hassan Whiteside battling a bone spur in his right foot, and small-ball center options not really going well, the UtahJazz opted to bring in Greg Monroe on a 10-day contract to provide some size.
He extolled the virtues of the team holding an off-day practice, so that he was able to actually go through some plays and schemes with the coaching staff. He added that he didn’t feel any pressure, considering this is his “fourth 10-day, so you kind of get used to it a little bit.” Mostly, he’s just excited to be on another team and to get to play again, because he’s not ready for his career to be over yet.
“I still love it. I still think I can definitely play at this level. I’m just not ready to be done. I think I have a lot left in the tank,” he said. “Everybody has their own journeys — this is just mine. So I just have to do what I do to get back in the place where I want to be, and this is part of it right now.While Snyder noted there were “obvious parallels” between last year’s Game 6 meltdown vs. the Clippers and.
He also pointed out, though, that this loss was not a carbon copy of the previous one. L.A. didn’t go 5-out this time, with big man Isaiah Hartenstein finishing the game at center; the Clippers caused trouble this time simply by augmenting their drop-big base defense with some pick-and-roll blitzing on the perimeter; and the most obvious difference? “Terance Mann didn’t hit nine 3s.”
Differences aside, he said the latest Clippers collapse was nevertheless familiar, because it had a couple things in common with other bad losses this season: “The consistent thing that I think is most important to take from it is that we’ve lost games during the course of the year because we haven’t defensive rebounded, and we haven’t gotten back. That was
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