No timetable for his return was given.
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The Utah Jazz defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 97-95 in a first round playoff game at Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA.
“I don’t think we’re ready to say today, tomorrow, a week, two weeks”, Snyder said. We lost, I think, most of the series, the home games.
Game 2 is Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. PT.
“Me and Blake looked at each other and was like, the hell with it; we’ve got to play”, point guard Chris Paul said.
After taking an elbow to the face early in Game 6, Rivers returned, bandaged, to finish with 21 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds. “And if you can find another coach to tell you different, I want to meet him”. Los Angeles is somewhat handicapped offensively with Luc Richard Mbah a Moute on the floor, but his presence is a necessity defensively against Gordon Hayward, without Austin Rivers. Gobert had to be helped off the court and carried into the locker room.
The moment Gobert went down is just so dramatic, even on replay. “We fought to the end of the year to get (homecourt advantage), now we’ve given it right back”.
“When Joe makes the shot, it always makes the coach look smart”, said Utah head coach Quin Snyder after the game.
Ingles and Johnson were able to force Griffin to switch to defend the smaller Ingles, leaving Johnson one-on-one with the smaller Crawford. “Now we’ve got to see what we’re made of”. He’s a fun player to watch, and Clippers-Jazz has a chance to be one of the most dramatic matchups of the first round. They pulled within one point again at 94-93 when Blake Griffin buried a pair of free throws with 23.3 seconds remaining. Derrick Favors has been bothered by knee injuries all year, the Doughy Frenchman (Boris Diaw) could be a spokesman for Pillsbury at this point, while second-year-man Trey Lyles is still pretty raw and failed to improve on his promising rookie year as much as the Jazz had hoped he would. “In some ways, that helped them”.
Just 11 seconds into Game 1 of their first-round series with the LA Clippers, the Jazz lost their defensive anchor and team MVP, Rudy Gobert. “It was a insane series”.
Now, the Warriors – who at 67-15 had the NBA’s best record for a third straight year – and Trail Blazers prepare to face off in the playoffs for a second straight season after Golden State beat Portland in a five-game Western Conference semifinals last year. “We know it’s just one step, and we’ve got to be ready for the next games, but it’s something that we definitely discussed during preparation was coming in and trying to play well”. He’s out for at least the first two games of the series.
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