What the Utah Jazz cannot afford to lose: Unmatched continuity
Look, there’s no guarantee any trade ideas floating around in the Jazz Twittersphere would prove to be an upgrade.
Moreover, such deals would endanger continuity, which is what largely propelled the 2020-21 squad to the top of the standings in the first place.
Remember, one common excuse for Utah’s first-round exit the year before was that Mike Conley and Jordan Clarkson were in their first year with the franchise. Those two, in particular, were still adjusting to head coach Quin Snyder’s system while building chemistry with all of the veterans in the Jazz rotation.
Now, the Jazzmen could form the league’s most cohesive bunch by simply avoiding the temptation to give up centerpieces in some alluring trade proposal.
And that now leads us to something else the franchise mustn’t misplace:
