Vegas Over/Under: 40.5
Fromal’s Record Projection: 44-38
The Bet: Hammer the over The Utah Jazz went 51-31 last season. So how on earth are they expected to win only seven fewer matches after losing their best player?
Well, the answer is simple: They did not really lose their best player.
Gordon Hayward’s departure to the Boston Celtics stings, along with the Jazz is going to have a tough time replacing his elastic creation. A dynamite rookie season from Donovan Mitchell can’t possibly fill the emptiness, and also the small-forward thickness chart looks a little more uninspiring with Joe Ingles and Joe Johnson leading the charge.
But Rudy Gobert remains patrolling Salt Lake City, prepared to prove to the planet he’s indisputably one of the NBA’s 20 best players.
Whereas Hayward finished Nos. 29 and 24, respectively, in ESPN.com’s RPM and NBA Math’s TPA, Gobert sat at Nos. 8 and 12 final season. He’s arguably the league’s best baseball player, and his amazing finishing ability across the rim makes him immensely precious on the offensive end.
There’s also the fact that the Jazz’s net rating increased by 5.7 points per 100 possessions without Hayward, but it dropped by 11.3 with no Gobert. After the”Stifle Tower” suited up sans his now-departed teammate, Utah still posted a 5.5 net rating, per nbawowy. In the opposite situation, the internet rating stood in minus-6.9.
Utah will probably be worse this season. That much is apparent.
But they are not falling below .500. Frankly, they should not even be particularly close to that mark.
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