preface:
With Conley's irregularities, the Utah Jazz completely lost hope of equalizing, and they were eliminated by the Lone Rangers, ending a brief playoff trip. Year after year, the Jazz once again fell before the Western Conference Finals, their core team has been four or five seasons, but still has not improved, perhaps the Jazz made a big mistake at the beginning, they should not take Gobert as a baby, they should not make him a two hundred million Mr. Two Hundred Million, one step wrong step wrong, the matter has come to this point, the Jazz may not have a way back.
Blue-collar super top salary
Early last season, the Utah Jazz and Gobert reached an early contract extension, and Gobert became Mr. $200 million, and his contract also made him the player with the largest contract in the center position, even more than O'Neal, Garnett and other careers to earn a lot of super interior line. After Gobert signed a big contract, he was also dissatisfied by many historical stars, such as O'Neal, who bluntly said that the Jazz's behavior was simply idiotic, and fired Gobert more than once on the show, when everyone thought that O'Neill must be sour, after all, seeing a junior break his salary record must have made him unhappy, but what he did not expect was that O'Neill was not targeting Gobert, he was really not worth the price.
Looking at the history of the NBA has never seen a blue-collar player sign so many high salaries, it is difficult to imagine that the future of Gobert's annual salary will be close to fifty million dollars a year, although he can support the so-called defensive system on the court, but valanciunas and Adams who are similar to him seem to be able to support the defensive system, but they are much cheaper than Gobert, in this small ball era, the threat of a guard forward like Gobert is destined not to be too big, but Utah Jazz still gave him this super big contract with a pat on the head. Gobert is now the first player in the blue-collar genre, a player who can only decide the team's defense, but with a contract like the cornerstone of the team, the Jazz management has finally become a joke.
Zero threat on the offensive side
If you can get a super salary just by defense, unless his defense can prevent a championship, this contract is a humiliating premium contract, never seen any interior player rely on defense alone to get such a salary, of course, before signing, the Jazz did not expect Gobert's offensive ability to be so bad. In the past, many people thought that Gobert always averaged about 15 points per game because he got very few opportunities, after all, the Jazz's backcourt Mitchell is famous for playing alone, but if you watch the Utah Jazz's playoffs this year, you will find that Gobert's offensive ability is almost zero.
His small number of shots is not because he has fewer opportunities, but because he really can't attack, facing Doncic, who is nearly 20 centimeters shorter than him, Gobert can't play alone, and his ability to eat cake is not even as good as the Eagles' Capela finishing ability. His hands are hard, maybe in the international arena, Gobert has played more than ten points piecemeal, but in the fast-paced game of the NBA, you as a super top salary inside line, you average only 15+ points per game, and Jokic, Embiid, and even Valanciunas these interior lines have no advantage in scoring, but the contract to dump others a street, is this reasonable? Obviously unreasonable.
Gobert is not 22 years old now, he is now 29 years old, if it is 22 years old, his offense can still be polished, it is worth looking forward to, but your 29-year-old offensive technology is so rough, scoring ability is so low, there is nothing to look forward to, over the years, Gobert does not seem to have any intention of improving his offensive ability, whether it is shooting or the internal active attack can not see a little progress in him, but Jazz still sent him such a big contract, is it because the club has money and nowhere to go, Still think that Gobert's team is really irreplaceable, compared to the Suns' Ayton asking for a maximum salary contract and not being able to do it, it is too funny, it is really people's sadness and joy are not the same.
And Mitchell locked up
Since Mitchell entered the league in 2017, he has been paired with Gobert for nearly five seasons, but the best result of these five seasons is the second round of the West, but even in this case, the team has given both of them a maximum salary renewal contract, both of whose new contracts are signed in 2020, and they will play for the Utah Jazz in the next few years, and these two new contracts are also completely locked in the two people. To be honest, Mitchell is very big in the outside market, but Gobert's $200 million is really too tricky, the average team really does not dare to eat, the Jazz do not dare to easily tear down their core lineup, but the results have not gone up, the team salary is in the top six of the league, which is undoubtedly in a dilemma.
And are Gobert and Mitchell compatible? It seems that some of the body language of the two people on the court can be clearly reflected, Gobert wants the ball and Mitchell does not give, Gobert would rather make mistakes than score the ball, the two seem to be incompatible, dismantling each other on the court, there is almost no communication off the court, the big contract has been given, there is almost no room for redemption, the two people locked most of the jazz's space, it is also very difficult to strengthen, Mitchell's performance in the playoffs is getting worse and worse every year, and it can only be said that the Jazz management has not left itself at all when renewing the contract.
epilogue:
If Gobert can't get the Jazz a championship until the end of his contract, it will really make those top interior players look at jokes, especially O'Neal and Garnett, after all, the salary reflects the ability of a player, and Gobert is obviously not worthy. Now it's all a mystery that the Jazz management has Gobert's relatives and doesn't know what they really think.