Rudy Gobert was sick all day today, so much so that he didn’t know he would play, so much so that he had to throw up into a wastebasket in front of his locker afterwards. But as game time approached, the fluids the Jazz’s training staff gave him made him feel well enough to go out there anyway, allowing Gobert to stay the course on his goal to play all 82 games this season.
Not only did he play, he was the game’s best player. He was phenomenal, just absurdly good on the defensive end. The Jazz got out to kind of a slow start, and the Nets had a 21-13 lead at the 4:34 mark of the 1st quarter.