Ricky Rubio fainted with 28 points in Utah Jazz's victory against the Pelicans without Anthony Davis

NEW ORLEANS – About 35 minutes before the match against Utah, New Orleans pelicans announced that All-Star striker Anthony Davis would sit with a sprained right elbow.

Julius Randle started in Davis' place, injured, but did not have the same effect against the Jazz Center, Rudy Gobert & Co., when Utah won his second consecutive victory on the road, 132-111.

The Pelicans played for the second consecutive night, after narrowly defeating the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night, 117-115, and Utah took the opportunity.

Davis recorded 18 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks in the Nets' win, but was injured in the elbow during the match, and then the situation worsened once at home, which made him worse. forced to rest.

In the middle of his first multiplayer road trip of the young season, Utah led with 28 points in the second half with Gobert feasting early in the paint, but that had brought him back to eight after a trey Wesley Johnson at 6:34 in the fourth.

A win would have marked the second start of New Orleans 5-0 in franchise history, but instead, they received their first L of the season.

"We have to win. I'm coming here to win, "said Gobert, who recorded 25 points, 14 rebounds and 4 blocks with 10 dunks, a top in the season. "I come here to win. AD, not AD, I come here to win. "

After entering the game taking 21.9% on the field, the guard of jazz, Ricky Rubio, also managed to get out of his slump and to score 28 points, 12 assists and six rebounds in eight out of 14. from Rubio's last trip to New Orleans on March 11 of the 2017-18 season, he also scored 30 points and seven cents in a 116-99 win.

Rubio had a warm start, scoring 4 of 6 points on the field with nine points in the first quarter after changing his overall mood for the game.

He watched a movie and noticed that almost every shot he took before the New Orleans stop was forced. So he decided to let the game come back to him while doing the best readings.

"I think I was a little obsessed with showing how much I had worked this summer in the first games of the season and that I had to let the game come back to me instead of just going out and going out. try to force things, "Rubio told me. "I think the first couple, three games, I was a little worried about that."

Jazz goaltender Donovan Mitchell can certainly understand Rubio's tough debut this season, also putting pressure on the action through the first three games before an outstanding 38-point performance in Houston on Wednesday. Mitchell was also effective in winning the Pelicans with 22 points and six assists on a 7-on-10 shot at goal. The Jazz shot 52.3% on the field as a team while maintaining the New -Orléans at 42.1%.

"Obviously, he was a little struggling in the first few games because I was myself, but he remained confident," Mitchell said. "He just kept attacking, being aggressive. You can not lose that and we trust him to do his thing. I am so happy with the way he played today. "

At half-time, the Jazz leads 64-49 while retaining control in the second half. Pelican striker Nikola Mirotic finished with 25 points and eight rebounds, a team-high.

Jrue Holiday scored 18 points with six assists while Randle added 12 points in the evening.

"I felt like, they came and shot shots," said Holiday. "Ricky (Rubio) and Gobert (Rudy) really understood the situation of the lob. Next time, I think we need to better contain them too. "

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The Jazz do not have much time to celebrate the victory in New Orleans. Dallas is scheduled for Sunday's second consecutive night on the road. Even with the win, jazz coach Quin Snyder always sees things to work on.

"I think the passes were accurate. Obviously with [Anthony Davis] far off the edge, the guys pitched the ball high, "said Jazz coach Quin Snyder. "Our grown ups could stretch and get it, which was very accurate. Defensively, we have too many mistakes, which will catch us.

"There has to be an urgency to be defensive, especially when we score the ball."