The Triple Team: Can the utahjazz azz reliably find Gobert against smart defenses now that they have Bogdanovic?
Los Angeles Lakers guard Malik Monk goes to the hoop, as Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert defends, in NBA action between the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Lakers, at Vivint Arena, on Thursday, March 31, 2022.Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 122-109 win over the Los Angeles Lakers from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.You can see that Gobert had not gotten a lot of shots on the road trip: only eight in both New York games combined, never more than seven in a game.
This, though, is the kind of play where you see the value of Bogdanovic as a spacer — and how his presence can actually open up Gobert for more dunks. Watch the movement of Ariza now, guarding Bogdanovic in the corner. Conley looking Bogdanovic’s way, even for a split second, causes Ariza to scoot over. That opens up the lob possibility to Gobert.
And yet the Jazz benched him during the fourth quarter against the Clippers on Tuesday night, so he watched the Jazz’s calamitous collapse — Eric Paschall played instead, which is interesting, given that Snyder has frequently gone away from Paschall. And he straight up wasn’t chosen for selection against the Jazz on Thursday. Instead, Snyder played Juancho Hernangomez 20 minutes.“Rudy and I talked this morning. He came here because he wanted to win.
Those exams showed that Whiteside has a minor bone spur fracture — the injury was called a foot sprain in the injury report, but it appears there’s a fracture involved. The team also said that “He can proceed, as tolerated.” — which, to me, reads that he won’t need surgery on the foot.