Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder more or less admitted that his team doesn’t have an answer defensively for James Harden.
Harden dropped 41 points on the Jazz in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals, shooting 12-of-26 from the field. Snyder’s solution for Game 2? Politely ask the MVP candidate to miss.
quin synder on how the jazz can defend harden better: “you ask him to miss. you say, ‘please, james, will you miss this time down the court,’ and you hope he’s magnanimous about it.”
— Tim Cato (@tim_cato) April 30, 2018
Snyder is very much channeling his inner Gregg Popovich here. Snyder will no doubt have a real plan to try to slow Harden down, but as many other teams have found, that’s much easier said than done.
