The Triple Team: With 82 games in the books, what do the stats say about the Utah Jazz’s players?

Utah Jazz forward Brice Sensabaugh shoots against Golden State Warriors forward Gui Santos during the second half of an NBA basketball game in San Francisco, Sunday, April 14, 2024. Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz ’s 123-116 loss to the Golden State Warriors from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.You would hope that the final day of the season would include teams really trying to win games — especially those fighting for playoff positioning.

Meanwhile, the Jazz are clearly playing out the string, but with one caveat: had they won this game, they would no longer have sole control over the eighth draft slot going into the lottery, but would share that “honor” with the Brooklyn Nets. Then, a coin flip would decide who was eighth and ninth; the Jazz would also lose a couple of percentage points of lottery chances as a result.

But Will Hardy brought up a great point in the postgame press conference: “If we’re where we want to be, however you feel right now physically, mentally, and emotionally, we would like to be preparing to go play our best basketball of the season right now. We’d be taking a few days off, do our playoff prep, and then it’s go time. So you have to prepare your body in a way where you can endure not only an 82-game season, but endure those games and then be ready to play in the playoffs.

And for Brice Sensabaugh... well, he’s a bit pudgy right now in a way that limits his ability to change direction, especially defensively. I actually like his size, but I think turning some of the body fat into functional muscle would really help the control in his game, while making him just a bit more athletic when it matters most.

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