5 questions with Utah Jazz assistant coach Sidney Lowe

A: We have to be consistent defensively. We certainly have times when we're really good, we're active at it. But we have to be consistent, more consistent with our rotations in taking away that paint area and allowing pick-and-rolls and things like that to affect us. We have to be more aggressive. When we're passive, teams score on us. When we're aggressive, we're pretty good. And we had a stretch when we were really going and -- one of the things that's happened and it's happened to everybody -- because of the season, you don't have a lot of practice time. So you have a little slippage in there. Coach (Corbin) was telling the guys we have to get back to where we were when we were really active and aggressive on defense, because defense is going to be the key down the stretch. We've certainly been able to score most of the time, but at the defensive end, when you look at the teams that win, they play solid defense. ... But that takes a lot of effort. We're gonna need more people; he's certainly playing the young guys in rotations, but I certainly think it's going to be all about the defense.