The first round of the NBA playoffs is quite difficult to draw, such as the Jazz, although they have been stable in the regular season, they also feel that they are the earlier and easier teams in the West, but they still face the Lone Ranger led by Doncic, or suffer a 2-4 early exit in seven best-of-four games, and miss the second round of competition. From the course of this game, we have also really experienced what the old saying of Chinese is that the three armies will be exhausted by incompetence, and the Jazz suffered a round trip in the playoffs, in fact, the most critical point is that the performance of the team's core player Mitchell is not stable enough, and he lacks the ability to pick the beam at key moments.
After the end of the race, a number of data websites analyzed Mitchell's performance through data comparison. From this comparison, we can see that since the playoffs in the past three years, Mitchell's average score per game has been declining, and the shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate and his plus or minus value have also dropped again and again. When Mitchell arrived in the playoffs, the opponent's ability to score in front of him was always increasing. This contrast is also a constant reminder that Mitchell, as the core of the team, does not seem to be so qualified. For example, his shooting percentage has dropped from 53% two years ago to 45% last season, and this season it is even lower to only 40%. In this way, even if the two-point shooting rate is only 40%, it is still so-so, and if it is acceptable under the premise of more multiple hands, it is obvious that the decline in the three-point shooting rate is more unacceptable. Because it is from 52% two years ago to 44% last season, and then to 21% this season, it is basically equal to 5 shots and 1 hit, such a three-point shooting rate occurs in a team's offensive core, and the fans who have the most shots on the whole team are naturally a bit surprising.
In addition, Mitchell's plus-minus in the past three seasons has dropped from a positive 5.4 to + 1.9, this season has plummeted to -6.5, it can be seen that the Jazz in the playoffs lost so easily and so irreparably, as the top team in the regular season results but did not even have the opportunity to advance to the second round of the playoffs, on the one hand, because the team only Mitchell was the boss, the boss was obviously wasting the opportunity to attack, not only could not guarantee that the team would win in the playing time, but also lost, such a team is difficult to rely on integrity to succeed in the playoffs. With only a single star leading the team, but also a star without a sense of integrity and hard power, the team's fate in the playoffs is really early.
The second aspect is that as a top team, if you want to make a breakthrough in the playoffs, as a core player, you can't just know how to shoot three points, because the result of this, once the feel is not good, you can't shoot the opponent, but shoot yourself, Mitchell's performance is enough to prove this. Although it seems that his score on the court, such as his score in the sixth game, still reached 23 points, but this performance of 0 of 7 three-pointers is enough to show that he wasted too many offensive opportunities, and the team eventually lost the whole game 96-98, some people say that Conley's final mistake caused the team to lose, but we should also see that before this key mistake, the team has already lost the great opportunity, Mitchell, as the core of the team, absolutely has to stand up and take some responsibility for the team's loss.
Another point is that since entering the playoffs, Mitchell's offense has been unstable and defensive. Maybe even if he doesn't defend in the regular season, many teams still can't match the Jazz's offensive ability. Combined with a comparison, it is also lost. But in the playoffs, they are facing a lone ranger who has both stars and overall playing styles, and Mitchell's weakness of not defending is infinitely magnified. So much so that the fans gave him an evaluation, that is, there is no super giant life, a super giant disease, and the playoffs themselves are fighting for defense. Duel offense is also often done on the basis of high-quality defense, if there is no defense, the offensive hit rate can not be guaranteed under the opponent's strict defense, then the team loses or goes out early, it has become a very normal phenomenon. So we face Mitchell's play and the team's early exit, can only say that for the Jazz, it may be their original intention to build a team with Mitchell as the mainstay, but it is very difficult to strive for good results in the playoffs with this kind of team. Even if we can say that even using Gobert as the absolute core of the team, it has a better chance of achieving a breakthrough in the playoff results than Mitchell is now going to be the boss of the team. What are the views on the Jazz's exit, and what are the views on Mitchell's role in the team and their future positioning? Welcome friends to give their own answers, everyone to discuss.