The Jazz guard spoke with the media Tuesday morning, talking about what a challenge the Denver Nuggets would present. A few hours before he was to suit up for the evening, the Jazz found out the challenge would be even greater: Hood had to sit out with soreness in his left ankle.
“Every kind of ache and pain doesn’t get dramatized until it gets to a point where it becomes something that we need to deal with and impacts his ability to play and perform,” he said.