Rudy Gobert has harsh words for Jazz after loss to Clippers
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert was in quite the sour mood after a loss on Saturday to the Western Conference rival Los Angeles Clippers.
After the Jazz’s 108-95 defeat at Staples Center, Gobert called out some of his teammates for a lack of competitiveness.
“We’ve got guys that compete, but some of us don’t compete,” said the French big man, per Tim MacMahon of ESPN. “Some of us just think about scoring. That’s what it is.
“Coach keeps repeating it: We’ve just got to compete,” Gobert continued. “We’re too nice. Those guys, we know they’re going to get calls. We’ve just got to come out aggressive and ready to fight.”
Gobert did his part on Saturday, finishing with a team-high 26 points and 14 rebounds. But the loss was Utah’s fourth in their last five games, and doubly frustrating was that it came at the hands of a bitter adversary in the Clippers, who are now just half a game behind the Jazz for the fourth seed in the West.
The 24-year-old Gobert has already begun to develop a reputation for outspokenness on the court, and now it looks like that’s true off of it as well.
