LAS VEGAS — Having lost four straight games in summer league play, Jazz assistant Mike Wells said the team will switch some things up Sunday afternoon in an effort to perhaps earn a positive result.
“We’ll change our lineups a little bit,” he said after the Summer Jazz fell 88-73 to the Wizards in their first NBA Summer League game in Las Vegas. “(We’ll) look at how we move the ball, look at film.”
Wells did mention that former Weber State forward Joel Bolomboy will start for Summer Jazz leading scorer and rebounder Trey Lyles in Sunday’s game against New Orleans (6 p.m. MDT, Cox Pavilion), but that change isn’t for competitive purposes.
Lyles, after all, leads the Jazz in scoring (22.2 points) and rebounding (9.0 boards) in four summer league games.
“I think we’ll give him a little bit of rest. That’s why I ran him out the whole time out there,” Wells said of Lyles, who played 33 minutes. “We’ll give Joel a long run tomorrow (Sunday) and some of the other guys. Trey will come back the next game.”
Bolomboy is still trying to get into the swing of things after being picked up by the Jazz late in the second round of the June 23 draft. He went scoreless and missed all three shots but grabbed six rebounds in 10 minutes in Saturday's loss.
JAZZ NOTES: Multiple Jazz players came down to Las Vegas to support the team and to work out. That group includes Rudy Gobert, Derrick Favors, Rodney Hood, Alec Burks, Shelvin Mack and Chris Johnson. … Sunday’s game will mark the fifth in seven days for Utah, which lost three contests in its summer league. … Utah bid farewell to forward J.J. O’Brien, who played for the team in Salt Lake City but is now on Brooklyn’s roster for Las Vegas. … Utah added two players to its Las Vegas squad — 6-6 wing Treveon Graham (VCU) and 7-foot center Mike Tobey (Virginia). Both saw action in Saturday’s loss.
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