The Utah Jazz have had quite a number of their players thrown out of games this season, and the early ejections have resulted in some entertaining comments on the end of the Jazz's star guard, Donovan Mitchell. Eric Walden shares via Twitter:
Donovan Mitchell, on the Jazz having had six ejections already this season: “I guess we’ve been waking up on the wrong side of the pillow. Is that the expression?”
— Eric Walden (@tribjazz) November 25, 2021
Notably, the Jazz have had six ejections in their first 18 games to start the season, and one single game against the Indiana Pacers featured three Jazz ejections. This game against Indiana featured some roughhousing between the Pacers' Myles Turner and the Jazz's Rudy Gobert, as Gobert, Joe Ingles, and Donovan Mitchell himself were all ejected from the matchup.
To go even further into the Jazz's foul troubles, Ryan Miller of ksl.com states that both Gobert and Mitchell are league leaders for technical fouls incurred this season, with Gobert actually leading the whole league, while Mitchell is tied for 12th with three.
Mitchell's reaction to the Jazz's record of ejections this season shines some light onto how the team has been approaching the matter—as something that will eventually turn around. After all, the Jazz can't keep waking up on the wrong side of the bed (or in Mitchell's case, the pillow) all season long. It's only a matter of time before the Utah Jazz make their own adjustments, temper their own emotions, and regain control over the plague of technicals and ejections they have been suffering from.
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