In the minutes after Monday night’s road-trip-closing blowout loss in Indiana, Jazz center Rudy Gobert expressed disappointment about the team’s lack of toughness in the defeat. As for the bigger picture, in terms of the team going 2-3 on the trip and falling to 8-9 overall this season, the Frenchman was typically stoic.
“It’s about us. I feel like there’s no game that we couldn’t have won on this trip,” he said. “We can beat everyone, and we can also lose to anyone. We have to put it in our head that we have to come out ready every night.