Utah beats LA 111-105.
Something needed to change. The Utah Jazz were down by as many as 17 in the first quarter, only to storm back after halftime to win 111-105 at the final whistle. Utah earned the tiebreaker over LA Clippers with one more meeting left in the season.
Donovan Mitchell: You can see it (passion and resiliencey) with that one possession where Rudy keeps it alive after those two threes and then Joe hits one and then screams in the coach’s face. That just shows who we are. pic.twitter.com/b2WFlsfhID
— JP Chunga (@JP_Chunga) February 28, 2019
Donovan Mitchell finished his 11th 30-plus game with 32 points on 10-of-22 shooting.
Rudy Gobert and the Jazz defense blocked a season-high 12 shots. The Frenchman topped the group with 4 rejections. He tallied his 49th double-double – 20 points and 13 rebounds.
The Jazz sit in sixth place in the West with a 34-26 record.
