Snyder downplays rest factor

No time to be tired. That’s what Utah head coach Quin Snyder said Wednesday when asked if his team was fatigued following its Game 1 loss to the Warriors the night before.

“I don’t know if fatigue was an issue for us,” Snyder said when he met with the media at a downtown San Francisco hotel Wednesday afternoon.

“They’re rested, but do they have their timing? I think they showed that they do,” he said of the Warriors. “In our case, it’s every other day and it’s no time to be tired.”

The postseason has been a relative cakewalk for Golden State and a gantlet for Utah.

While the Warriors enjoyed a week off between their firstround sweep of Portland and the start of the second round, the Jazz had a single day of rest after going seven games against the Clippers. In fact, the Jazz haven’t had more than two days’ rest between games the entire postseason.

Was exhaustion an issue against Golden State?

“Nah, not at all. It’s just a different team, a different environment,” shooting guard Rodney Hood said.

Tuesday’s Game 1 at Oracle Arena was rough for quite a few Utah players, particularly Gordon Hayward.

Against the Clippers, Hayward averaged 23.7 points per game on 47 percent shooting. In the opener against Golden State, Hayward was 4-for-15 from the field — 2-for-9 on three-point shots — and scored 12 points.

Snyder said after the loss that Utah had to improve its spacing and execution on offense, tighten its transition defense and cut down on turnovers.

“There has to be more urgency,” he said.

The Warriors committed only seven turnovers in Game 1 (to Utah’s 13), and Golden State outscored Utah 29-6 in fastbreak points.

“We’ll get better every single game, day by day,” Hood said. “We’re just getting out of a long series. Game 2 will be better than 1. Game 3 will be better than 2. It’s just going to be like that going forward.”