The Utah Jazz currently have a regular season record of 31 wins and 21 losses, still ranking fourth in the upper reaches of the Western Conference. Judging from the record ranking, they are still a very competitive team in the playoffs this season. , but if we have watched the video of their recent games, the current situation of the Utah Jazz is not optimistic. They have just experienced a bad schedule of losing streak, and in the follow-up, they are about to go through a series of facing strong teams such as the Nets and Warriors. game, this is undoubtedly another time worth testing for them.
In the post-match interview after the previous disastrous defeat, the team's core center Rudy Gobert clearly expressed his pessimistic attitude towards the current team situation:
I feel that many times our opponents are more relaxed than us on the playing field. A lot of games we should have won ended up falling short. But even if we haven't played very well recently, we still have to work hard to enjoy the game and perform as we should on the field.
For a team like the Utah Jazz, which has been extremely competitive in the past few seasons, this signal is by no means good news for them. The core of their team has been built for several seasons, but it has always been None were able to break out of the West. This season, their core lineup is extremely neat, and they have made some improvements in terms of shortcomings. However, many of the rotation players have fallen into a sluggish state, far from their top offensive and defensive performance in previous seasons, which has led to Their record this season is far worse than before.
But now, not only have they encountered a bottleneck in their offense, but even the most complete defensive system they have built has also been challenged. We often see in games this season that players on the field lack sufficient concentration or communication between players, resulting in some defensive mistakes.
Such a bad phenomenon is even more dangerous than the sluggish performance of the players for a team like the Utah Jazz, which has proven its defensive performance countless times. Although we are not entirely sure why the Utah Jazz's defense is not as good as previous evaluations, we can say with certainty that it is almost difficult for this team to maintain the league's top defensive performance in every game like in the past.
Also based on these current less than ideal circumstances, the Utah Jazz are no longer as difficult an opponent for other playoff teams as they used to be, and considering that Ingles had previously suffered a torn cruciate ligament in the season. Due to the reimbursed injury, they are basically getting further and further away from the championship trophy.
However, the February schedule has just started, and they can still gain some time to make certain adjustments. In this month before the playoffs, they must figure out the team's current problems as soon as possible, and then find out to a solution.
First of all, they should still focus on the trading market to see if they can find some fresh blood at the forward and wing positions, such as Marcus Smart, Josh Richard Desen , Justin Holiday and others are all options they can try to fight for. Although it cannot bring them real substantive changes from the offensive and defensive level, it can at least provide them with the forward and flank positions. It brings some freshness to the team that has never been seen before.
Secondly, as a complement to Donovan Mitchell on the back line, Mike Conley has proven that he can only bring some help in terms of ball-holding ability, and his offensive ability is far from enough to Mitchell. er support. Therefore, Joe Ingles has become an extremely critical point. The team can allocate more ball rights to him offensively to make up for the team's lack of offensive ability on the back line.
But unfortunately, with Ingles' season reimbursement, all speculation in this regard has come to nothing. Therefore, this aspect has also become something they need to consider in the future, which is to completely eliminate all offensive firepower points. Whether to focus on Mitchell or to find some players with offensive capabilities to share his pressure now is a decision that the team management needs to make.
Finally, we would like to put forward some opinions from our personal point of view. They can try to give Pascal more playing time, although his offensive level seems to have obvious shortcomings, and judging from his current performance , Pascal is not one of the key personnel that determines the team's victory or defeat.
But as a 25-year-old young striker, the enthusiasm he brings on the court is something that this rigid team has been lacking, and his hard work and enthusiasm on the defensive end are likely to become an inspiration for the team. key factors.
Generally speaking, the Utah Jazz are still in a relatively sluggish state in terms of record and team status. If they cannot quickly find some solutions to the problem in the near future, then even if this team can Smoothly entering the playoffs, it is still difficult for them to break through the existing limitations and take a step closer.
