Some nights, guys are going to play more than others because of matchups and all those types of things, so. You know, everybody needs to be needs to be ready to go. We’ve had guys that are injured, they come back. There’s a lot of things that Rudy does that we value.” And then, he’s been shooting the ball and he can score in the post. “Because of his size, his ability to defend the post against guys that aren’t bigger than him. And for a vet, in his case, he understands that there is going to be a number of situations where - I can list them off for you - where I think he gives us a higher ceiling because of some of the things he can do,” Snyder said. I asked Quin Snyder about the decision after the game.
Instead, Snyder played Juancho Hernangomez 20 minutes. And he straight up wasn’t chosen for selection against the Jazz on Thursday. Gay has certainly not impressed this season, but his play on the trip was probably better than we’d seen the rest of the year.Īnd 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 actually had the second-best plus-minus during the Jazz’s road trip, bested only by the other more famous Rudy on the roster. In particular, Gay had actually been playing pretty well on the Jazz’s road trip: he was averaging 9 points a game, the 5th-highest mark on the team. That’s going to be interesting to monitor. At the very least, I can’t find one on Google. I don’t think Rudy Gay has had a DNP-CD in his career before today.
But the second play is more of a pick-your-poison kind of play, the kind that the Jazz’s offense can create when it’s humming well.
So that’s going to be one huge question for the Jazz against the good teams they have left in their schedule - Golden State, Phoenix, and Memphis: can they reliably find Gobert against smart defenses now that they have Bogdanovic? The first video is, frankly, the kind of play that a good defense swallows up.