For the Jazz, adjusting to the NBA campus in Orlando was particularly difficult during the first two days of the trip, Tony Jones of The Athletic details.
Like other teams, every player and staff member of the Utah traveling team had to quarantine for the first 48 hours once they arrived. The sudden adaptation to isolation was a revelation for many within the franchise.
“Those first 48 hours were sucked” Joe Ingles he said with a chuckle. “The window in the room was closed tightly, so I couldn’t open it. So over the course of a few months, I’m afraid the room will get a little smelly. “
Coaches and staff members were no exception to this, of course, with the head coach Quin Snyder offering his perspective on the first 48 hours of his journey.
“We had a lot of time for ourselves” Snyder said. “It was a long time to think. I had to be careful not to think too much. “
Utah is entering the shooting season with the Western Conference’s fourth best record at 41-23, dragging Nuggets seed n. 3 of 1.5 games and the Clippers seed n. 2 of three games.
Here are some other notes outside the Northwest Division tonight:
- The Jazz they are also adapting to life without Bojan Bogdanovic in Orlando, writes Ryan McDonald of The Deseret News. Bogdanovic is expected to lose the rest of the season after undergoing wrist surgery in May, averaging 20.2 points in 63 games of the year. “Bojan is missing, having to adapt the way we play, our style, I think Coach is adapting in a way that helps us play more freely but still has a lot of structure and the way he wants us to play”, Royce O’Neale She said.
- thunder forward Andre Roberson he joined the team in practice on Friday for the first time in nearly a year, writes ESPN’s Royce Young. Roberson, who last saw the NBA’s action two years ago, suffered a broken patellar tendon for the first time in January 2018. He suffered a setback later in the year he requested an additional surgery, so he suffered another setback six weeks later sustaining an avulsion fracture in his knee. “He looked really good in terms of how he moved” head coach Billy Donovan She said. “It was good to see him out there. I was really happy for him. But as we’ve already talked about in the past, we’ll see how it can continue to develop and develop here for the following week, but today it was out there and has participated in everything. “
- The Trail Blazer the big men looked good in their comebacks last week, Jason Quick of The Athletic writes. Jusuf Nurkic is John Collins both recovered from their injuries, with Portland now sporting three seven-foot players when included Hassan Whiteside. “Both seemed like we remembered them”, coach Terry Stotts She said. “I told Nurk: it’s the Nurk that I remember playing at both ends of the floor. He made some really good passes, good rebounds. And Zach was full of energy. Neither of them could tell the time lost. It was very encouraging. “
