It is not random when Donovan Mitchell takes numerous bad shots, of his own accord, at the end of games. Snyder’s argument is logically sound.Įven as I watched Luka Doncic carve up the vaunted Suns, the same way he and the Mavs carved up the Jazz, it still felt clear to me the biggest issues with this Jazz team are not random.ĭoes Dallas’ second-round success make you think differently about this year’s Jazz team? Shotmaking is also the defining aspect of whether or not teams win games in basketball.
This truly does make sense: shotmaking can have a big degree of randomness to it.
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I felt like we were this close,” Snyder said, snapping his fingers, “to just having a spark and kicking it in and finding that unity or that kind of extra secret sauce, and taking off.”Īs Snyder spoke with reporters last week, in the wake of the team’s first-round exit, he also pointed to numerous statistics that showed just how unlucky the Jazz were in their first-round series - essentially, boiling down to the Jazz missing their open shots while the Mavericks hit theirs. “I thought that our record didn’t necessarily reflect what we could do in the playoffs. It’s a point of view Jazz head coach Quin Snyder might agree with. So…are the Jazz closer to being the NBA’s best team than we thought they were? They seemed to have all of the offensive and defensive answers all season long.Īnd they just got sent home by the Dallas Mavericks - just like the Utah Jazz. They won eight more games than anyone else. They were the NBA’s best team this season.