But fate has matched those teams — the Utah Jazz and LA Clippers — against each other in the second round of this year’s playoffs, a sort of group session on how to bounce back from a postseason meltdown.
“We’ve been through a lot of adversity over the last few years, on and off the court,” Gobert said.
When you blow a 3-1 series lead , respect is hard to come by.
“I think we understand how to handle these things, and that was what you saw tonight,” Mitchell said.
The Jazz looked to be cruising to an easy win for most of the first half.
It was great being up 21, but at the end of the day, they executed like they should.
The Clippers came back again, though, getting two free throws from Paul George to cut the lead to 104-103, and a steal from Kawhi Leonard set up Marcus Morris Sr.
“I’ve been answering a lot of questions about , and I think their play kind of reinforced who they are,” Snyder said.
For the Clippers, it was a second straight missed opportunity to steal a game on the road against the top-seeded team in the West.
But, you know, we are approaching this the same way Dallas was; we still feel we have a lot of possessions that we can clean up and a lot of possessions that are hurting us that’s our fault.