Nonetheless, there are always nits to pick in the National Basketball Association, and the Jazz cannot escape scrutiny any more easily than 29 other teams that did not win the NBA championship last season. The largest questions surrounding the Utah Jazz heading into this offseason revolved around their ability to counter small ball formations, and they answered them all with the acquisitions of Gay and Paschall. As demonstrated by their previously mentioned league-best 2020-21 regular season record, the model works. This current iteration of the Jazz is fundamentally built around three components: backcourt offense (specifically, from the talented trio of Donovan Mitchell, Mike Conley Jr., and Jordan Clarkson), Rudy Gobert’s defense, and depth.
