The Jazz have played six regular-season games this season, and in those six games, they have a record of 5 wins and 1 loss, only to lose to the Bulls, and the team is still in very good shape this season. You know, in last season's regular season, the Jazz won 52 wins and 20 losses, ranking first in the league! So far this season, their overall record is still the best in the league, it can be said that for the Jazz, their initial goal in the regular season this season is still the league first, and the most important thing is to play in the playoffs!
In the first six games of the season, the Jazz won only the Nuggets and Bucks, which are really strong teams, and the Thunder, Kings and Rockets are not strong. Mitchell, who has averaged 23 points, 4 rebounds and 4.7 assists this season, has averaged 16+16 points per game for Clarkson, 16.2 for Bojan and 16.3 for Gobert!
At present, the personnel structure of this team is very reasonable, the core players Mitchell and Gobert are not very old, with the help of role players such as Ingles and O'Neal, coupled with the veteran Conley and clarkson such a best sixth man, the overall strength of the team is naturally very strong. But in this team, there is actually a flaw in the lineup, that is, the team's substitute interior line. This season's team's substitute interior line is mainly Hassan Whiteside, the peak of Whiteside's ability is beyond doubt, the average per game is also able to contribute to the big double-double data, but now Whiteside is 32 years old, has long been no longer the beast of the inside line.
Judging from the state of the season, Whiteside's role behind the court is not good, and it is often targeted by opponents, just like the game lost to the Bulls, after Whiteside came on the court, he was always targeted by the opponent's inside line-up Vucevic, which is why the team lost. Whiteside has averaged 7 points and 7 rebounds per game this season, but in the ten minutes he has been on the floor, the Jazz have often been easily scored by opponents. Now Whiteside really doesn't have a good effect on both the offensive and defensive ends, and it is difficult to be a competent substitute for this team!
So if the Jazz can't improve their bench interior level, they will really be targeted by opponents in the next game, especially in the playoff games, any honest inner line will make Whiteside very uncomfortable, which will cast a thick shadow on the Jazz's playoff prospects!