Gobert is likely out for the rest of the series against the Los Angeles Clippers. Joe Johnson hit that floater as time expired to win the game for the Jazz.
Joe Johnson drained the game-winning shot at the buzzer and the Utah Jazz shocked the Los Angeles Clippers, 97-95, in Game 1 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs at Staples Center on Saturday night. Derrick Favors also had a big performance off the pine, putting in 15 points and six rebounds in 32 minutes. Game 2 is Tuesday in Toronto.
Yes, Blake Griffin had a game high 26-points, but he was nowhere to be found in the fourth quarter and committed several costly turnovers. That left 6-foot-7 Johnson with 6-foot-5 Jamal Crawford on him instead of 6-foot-10 Blake Griffin.
The Jazz didn't practice after their big win Saturday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference playoffs, but they did watch film as a team and meet with the media afterwards. "I made eye contact with him and you could just see this kind of helplessness", Snyder said.
It was widely assumed that the game had quickly changed in favor of the Clippers when Jazz center Rudy Gobert went down early in the first quarter with what has turned out to be a hyperextended and bruised left knee, and didn't return.
"I was just coming off a screen", Mbah a Moute said after the game when asked about the collision with Gobert.
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Gobert was scheduled for an MRI exam later Saturday.
"We can't just say it's one game and then show up the next game", Rivers said.
The final key that I'll discuss because I'm seriously aching to get back to the Kendrick album, is one of nearly unmanageable proportions, but it's something that plagued the Jazz throughout the first half of the season; injuries. "But we'll find out". You always do that. "We wanted the ball to go to Joe, in his hands, and we got a switch, and like he said, there's a lot of ways to cut that". Both Paul and Griffin can play more effectively too: the former started cold, while the latter's athleticism and power should wear on Utah's smaller lineups.
Get scoring updates and the live box score from Game 1 between the Clippers and Jazz above. "In some ways, that helped them".
No other player has more than four during that stretch. "We really didn't, offensively or defensively". The Clippers get another chance - it's not over - and I'm thinking they cannot shoot any worse from the perimeter than they did on Saturday. The series was overshadowed by the riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdicts were handed down.
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