No Mitchell, but Jazz gets a total team effort in an easy victory against Sacramento

SACRAMENTO – Jazz top scorer Donovan Mitchell did not participate in Sunday's game against a Sacramento team that beat them four nights earlier in Salt Lake City when Mitchell scored 35 points.

It did not matter

Who needs a guy when you have about 10 other players who play well as the Jazz did at the Golden 1 Center, where they won a 133-112 win over the Sacramento Kings.

With this win, the Jazz improved to 9-11 in the season and 7-6 on the road, while the Kings dropped to 10-10 overall.

The Jazz received good performances from a plethora of players who scored the season's total points, scoring 53.3% on the field, distributing 30 assists and outshooting their opponents by 16 rebounds.

It was a total team effort: six players scored two digits, nine other nine points and 12 of their 13 players were in the score column.

Let's go down the list:

– Ricky Rubio scored the highest point of the game with 27 points on 11 shots out of 16 and added seven rebounds and five assists. He scored 23 points in the first period, including 16 in the first quarter, when the Jazz took a big lead they never gave up.

– Rudy Gobert finished with 18 points, 15 rebounds and five assists, including 11 points and seven rebounds in the third quarter.

– Joe Ingles had a minor crisis with 18 points on 6 out of 8 shots and handed out six assists.

– Jae Crowder, who started his first start of the season, scored 14 points with five rebounds.

– Derrick Favors, coming off the bench, played a solid match with 11 points, seven rebounds, three interceptions and three blocked shots.

– Alec Burks, getting more time at the wing position without Mitchell, attacked the rim and finished with 14 points, four rebounds and three assists.

– Grayson Allen and Raul Neto, who have not played much this year – Neto because of injury and Allen because he is still a rookie – both scored nine points on the bench.

The jazz coach Quin Snyder congratulated his team and his selflessness, but he was particularly proud of his bench players.

"Our bench was fantastic tonight," he said. "The guys who came into the game all played at a high level and kept watching, which is the most important thing. Offensively, the ball was moving and that's why we have to play. If we do this and are patient, the ball usually finds somebody. "

Rubio, who has had some ups and downs this year with very bad and excellent shooting nights, has been the catalyst for Jazz. After hurting Mitchell to the ribs, Rubio knew he had to take over and he did it early, since he scored nine of Utah's first 11 points and 16 in the first quarter to give the Jazz a fast forward that they have never given up. .

"We played them a week ago, and I know their game plan allowed me to shoot, so I was ready for it," he said. "Since Donovan was not in the game, I had to be a bit more aggressive. The ball went in several times and I kept shooting.

The Jazz led 30-26 after a quarter and 59-50 at halftime before increasing its lead in the third quarter, when Gobert and Favors dominated the inside. Then, in the fourth quarter, the Jazz beat the Kings 42-32 as everyone set to work.

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"We especially knew that with Donovan, we wanted to be collectively aggressive and we had to play a different offensive style, move the ball and make sure that these guys kept every possession of the ball," he said. said Crowder, which started because it matched better with that of Kings. before Nemanja Bjelica. "The attack went well tonight."

The Kings were led by Bogdan Bogdanovic (20 points), Marvin Bagley (18 points) and De'Aaron Fox (13 points).

The next step for the Jazz is the Indiana Pacers Monday night at the Vivint Arena, before their return on the road for a trip of three games on the east coast.

"We are trying to build every night and take that with us tomorrow night and everything will be fine," Crowder said.