Jazz center Gobert to miss game two with Clippers

Snyder dismissed whether the Clippers might feel compelled to play that way to avoid an 0-2 deficit before facing a hostile crowd in Utah for Games 3 and 4. Though he went scoreless in the second quarter as he sat on the bench for almost seven minutes, Paul finished the second half with 14 points on 6-of-10 shooting and three assists.

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong).

Saturday was Utah’s first playoff win in seven years, but the Jazz expects the Clippers to play differently in Game 2. But, for reals? If LA was filled with so many bad ashes, why didn’t they do this in game one?

Blake Griffin’s 26 points, 7 rebounds, and three assists were gone vain as the Clippers lost game-1.

“It was big”, Griffin said. “I think we just have to do it ourselves”. That’s what we need. “Our offensive aggressiveness will carry over to defense”.

Chris Paul had his wristband torn off on a non-foul, worked through his own first-half foul trouble (he earned 3 whistles on 1 ⁄2 fouls), and gave us another wonderfully demonstrative GIF when the official wouldn’t give him the ball quickly enough for an uptempo inbound. Jordan’s tomahawk jam put an exclamation on the end of the period. The Jazz were up to the defensive challenge of slowing down the Clippers and did so even without Gobert in the paint. Most of the Utah runs came with DeAndre on the bench, a place he spent more time than he would have liked given some moderate foul trouble.

“Especially there in the first quarter, it seemed like (Jordan) got a lot of easy stuff right there at the rim, easy dunks, lobs, and some of that’s what they do”.

“We’ve got to raise our level now”. Derrick Favors scored 15 points and grabbed 6 boards in his absence and is the assumed starter moving forward.

The Jazz walked out of the Staples Center with a Game 1 win thanks to a buzzer-beater from Joe Johnson.

For the game, the Clippers shot 52.4 percent to 45.7 percent for the Jazz. “Let’s say we don’t win this year – which I think we will, (but) let’s say we don’t”. “But besides the first quarter, we played them pretty even”.

Harden had nine assists and seven rebounds, and Beverley, who had the unenviable task of guarding Westbrook, had a playoff career-best 21 points along with 10 rebounds.

“I really don’t want to guard any of them to be honest”, Ingles said. You’ve got to get a different hashtag. Jordan came out to the perimeter to hound Hayward, while Griffin got in Johnson’s face. Paul is in the same contract situation, so he ultimately could be the one to go.

Utah pulled off the Game 1 upset, despite losing center Rudy Gobert in the contest’s opening seconds.

The Clippers never trailed.

Jazz: The last time the teams met in the playoffs was a first-round series in 1996-97, won 3-0 by the Jazz.

Through three and a half quarters, the Clippers looked like they were on their way to the Conference Finals.