Gordon Monson: Here’s the hard truth about the Utah Jazz and their regular season

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Opinion: The NBA regular season doesn’t mean much, writes Gordon Monson, not even for the Utah Jazz. Instead, it's for making money and putting on a show.

Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell closes out on Portland Trail Blazers shooter in NBA action between the Utah Jazz and the Portland Trail Blazers in the Vivint Arena on Wednesday, March 9, 2022.You can look it up and/or you can trust what you see with your own eyes.It’s an exhibition, a show. It’s entertainment, games played to make the home crowd feel good or not so good about its team.

Murmurings after games like that from some observers run along the lines of, “Championship contenders don’t get beat like that.” Many people, those who swing a heavy pick in a salt mine, those who load crates into the back of two-tons all day, day after day, for a living, say, “These guys are making millions and more millions of dollars. They should be able to play a freaking game 82 times over a six-month period.”

Snyder and the rest of the Jazz know this. They’re fully aware that the only competitive thing the season is good for is … development, experimentation, finding the right strategies, the right rotations, the right combinations, and sometimes the right personnel, so that when the second season, the real season, begins, they’ll be ready for whatever matchups they’ll face in, best case, a series of differing postseason series.

 

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