Monday night against the NBA-best Houston Rockets, the Utah Jazz gave away too many possessions and points by coughing up 22 turnovers, eight more than their average. Consequently, the Jazz let their 15-point first-half lead evaporate as the Rockets took advantage of Utah’s carelessness and won 96-85. You don’t often win ball games with 20 or more turnovers, especially against good teams. Simply, if the Jazz want to be a playoff team they need to reel in on the giveaways. Are TOs becoming that big of a problem?

Rocket Hangover

After the basket of gifts the Jazz gave Houston on Monday, head coach Quin Snyder was hot. He was frustrated and almost at a loss for words on how the Jazz handled the ball. He said:

“Some of the turnovers, there’s no, there isn’t any, ya know, it’s…. don’t throw the pass, there’s a guy there. You can’t throw the ball to the other team. We had a lot of turnovers that were just careless. If they are unforced, it’s on us. We just have to be mentally tougher.”

You can view his full quote below:

Strong words from the coach, which meant the next day of film and practice would be even stronger. Snyder continued his sermon on turnovers on Wednesday. “We showed every turnover that we made against Houston on film this morning to try to really draw the connection between that you’re not going to win if you turn the ball over 22 times,” the coach said. “The most notable time is when we were up 15 and gave it back on a bunch of consecutive possessions.”