Throughout the course of an 82-game NBA season, nights like Wednesday are bound to happen. Unfortunately for the Utah Jazz, it came at a very inopportune time.
Locked in a fierce battle for playoff positioning in the Western Conference, the Jazz suffered one of their worst defeats of the season when they fell 125-97 on the road to the red-hot Boston Celtics.
"We didn't raise that level, we didn't play that way," Snyder said. "It's good for us to face an opponent that is elite defensively because I think it shows us how committed we have to be to the way we play in order to have success.