The Utah Jazz Are Melodic, For Now (johnwilmeswords on how they've undermined everyone's expectations, perhaps even their own, and have done it without superstar talent)
We’ve seen this before. Parts of it, anyway—we’ve heard notes, even full riffs from this kind of composition, you might say. The Utah Jazz are off to a 3-0 start, and sit atop the Western Conference. They’ve gone through teams who most pundits had well ahead of them to get there, too; the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, and New Orleans Pelicans. This, despite the team most likely being assembled, by team president Danny Ainge, to lose.
Add in Lauri Markkanen—a center-sized shooting guard who’s finally blossoming on his third team and in his sixth season, at the age of 25—holdover combo guards Mike Conley and Jordan Clarkson, quickly effective rookie big man Walker Kessler, and the always pesky Collin Sexton to close games with poise and panache, and you’ve got an extremely annoying team to deal with on a night-to-night basis.
But the more likely end result for this team is that of the 2020-21 Houston Rockets, who put together a six-game winning streak shortly after sending James Harden to the Brooklyn Nets, and then immediately lost 21 of their next 22 contests. Sometimes—most of the time, in fact—it just takes the league a week or two to catch up.
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