Top 2016 Offseason Priorities for the Utah Jazz

April 15th, 2016 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »

The Utah Jazz were the last team eliminated from the playoffs. The Houston Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings Wednesday night and held the tiebreaker. But, as it turned out, a 60-point career finale from Kobe Bryant upended the Jazz, and it didn’t matter anyway.

Still, based on their Simple Rating System (which includes margin of victory and strength of schedule) score of plus-1.84, the Jazz were easily the best team this year to not make the playoffs.

In fact, they were better than six that did.

They did so without a true starting-caliber point guard for most of the season and injuries to franchise cornerstones Derrick Favors (who missed 23 games) and Rudy Gobert (who missed 22).

While they missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season, there is a lot to be happy about and a young core to build on. The right offseason moves could make them contenders. They did the hard part. Now they need to do the fine-tuning to get to the next step. 

 

The Core



According to RealGM.com, the Jazz were tied with the Philadelphia 76ers for the youngest team ...

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