Incredible is now. Utah is playing the best defense in the NBA right now. Snyder is clearly COY. You have a super star rookie who can turn it on. Obviously I am not going to go full zoob and say they will now win the West. It is exciting basketball Jazz were not playing well and managed to shut down Davis in the fourth and run away with it. Rubio was very impressive.
Mitchell has been great and has potential to be even better (yay!), but the turn around is Gobert. He is incredible. Watch a quarter of basketball of just him. You’d be shocked how many points we score becuase of a pick he sets, a pass he makes, a TO he causes. And the same on the defense.
Gobert is a top 5 player right now. He is that good. That is why the Jazz are so good. It’s Gobert.
I have seen that done to the Jazz a lot. Lebron, Durant, Harden, Westbrook, Dwade, Duncan so many players over the years do that exact thing to the Jazz.
I can think of a few times Dwill has done that. Stockton and Malone used to do it. But Mitchell is doing it as a rookie. I don’t think he has a ceiling. He has broken every rookie measurable. Fg% and efficiency is something he definitely needs to improve.